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To help us. let's break down exactly what is going to go on. discretionary spending, the white house saying it will save $400 billion over the next ten years. he wants a five year freeze. last year he said three years. extending that. also we have the defense department saying that they're going to cut spending by $7 billi 8 billion. this includes cutting spending on defense. he was not focusing on that. he's talking not about homeland security. he's not talking about veterans and it also excludes the mandatory spending that we would have on medicare and medicaid, social security, interest, al...

Now he says five years. sounds great considering our deficit issues. problem is it's not going to affect as much. it's going to impact less than 15% of the overall federal budget. some of the things are excluded. defense is excluded. they're also saying spending on homeland security and veterans are being excluded as well. it also excludes the mandatory spending you would finds in, say, for medicare, medicaid and also social security. so if you factor that in, the white house says the phrase will save the country $400 billion over a decade. the problem is that when you look at the spending, in...

People are demanding to know where the jobs. take a look at what happened when republican congressman fred up ton of michigan trotted out the gop talking points of cuts, cuts, cuts. >> you can see on this part of the pie chart -- >> you need jobs on your chart. >> medicare is $519 billion out of 3.5 trillion. >> where's the jobs. >> bring back jobs. bring back jobs. bring back jobs. bring back jobs. >> it's a cry that's being heard throughout the country. today in atlanta. where unemployment tops 10%. thousands waited in the heat to attend a jobs fair. the good news, the american people have s...