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Can get that passed but here is the problem. you can't pass that $84 billion plus up with the budget caps we have right now. >> maria: right. >> jack: they have got to be removed by the appropriations committee and its got to be done by 1 january. if we don't do it by 1 january that budget goes all the way back to 549 billion, not 640 billion. we lose almost $100 billion. that is an absurdity. we'll never rebuild military unless the congress removes the budget caps so that we can grow the budget. >> maria: we'll be watching that that's obviously very important. general always a pleasure to see...

Taxes. the economy boomd and federal tax revenues increased from 347 billion to 549 billion. but let me make a point that's particularly important. there are two different approaches. high taxes like obama or cutting taxes like rag on. one works and one doesn't. i want to show you this chart, which is hard to see from where you are, so let me show you individual pieces of it. >> how many charts do you have there? we're running out of time. >> it's important and bernie, i'll let you see this. bernie, bernie, relax. >> your job is to moderate. this is not a one-man show here. >> he's answering h...

An oil in this leaking engine. we have 50 million people on medicare right now, and we're adding 10,000 people a day because of the baby boomers joining, and last year, we spent 549 billion dollars on medicare and so, if you look at two sources, one the congressional budget office and the second source, the medicare trustees and we can say that those are nonpartisan groups, they're saying that medicare will be bankrupt in 2024. >> okay. >> that's based on the assumption that what will happen is that we're going to do this price cutting. cutting physicians in january. 27% so if you rise the med...

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