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There the tax cuts overwhelmingly go to the richest folks. i think i the number i saw was the top 1% get 45% of the tax cuts in this bill. and in order to pay for those $590 billion of tax cuts, they're taking a lot of health insurance subsidies away from poor people. so you really have to ask yourself is the problem america faces that the top 1% do not have enough money? is that really a worse problem than the people at the bottom of the income distribution not having health insurance? because that is the vision of america's problems as encoded in this bill. this bill is flatly saying it is w...

If you want to understand what the republican bill is doing, the tax cuts overwhelmingly go to the richest folks. i think i the number i saw was the top 1% get 45% of the tax cuts in this bill. and in order to pay for those $590 billion of tax cuts, they're taking a lot of health insurance subsidies away from poor people. so you really have to ask yourself is the problem america faces that the top 1% do not have enough money? is that really a worse problem than the people at the bottom of the income distribution not having health insurance? because that is the vision of america's problems as e...

Cultural sixth sense. who know the issues of a historical sense are. who are free of the bureaucracy. so you happen to pick in this man by chance an organization that's bigger than the state department. state department has a budget of 65 billion. exxon mobil is 590 billion in assets. 65 billion in revenue. 50 countries around the world. this man has negotiated, been a diplomat, run a business and has relationships with all of those people. which only to benefit. he's not setting policy. congress is really setting policy. >> right. so it is a great opportunity. and people who think, why is rus...

We're on the same side i think on particularly short-term stimulus and austerity and just the need for the government to be doing much, much more to get people back to work particularly in the short term. but the really interesting thing -- and the place where i'm surprised, particularly today on the day of the obama care repeal vote for the 37th time, is the mounting evidence that obama care really is playing a role in the long-term projections of deficit reduction. here's just an example of this is from the center for budget and policy priorities, projected medicare spending which has fallen...

But the really interesting thing -- and the place where i'm surprised, particularly today on the day of the obama care repeal vote for the 37th time, is the mounting evidence that obama care really is playing a role in the long-term projections of deficit reduction. here's just an example of this is from the center for budget and policy priorities, projected medicare spending which has fallen $590 billion out in the future since just august 2010. that's a fairly large amount. if you extrapolate that out into the long term it is even more. that argument that obama care is doing that, why is no ...