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Medicare, medicaid and social security we go $3 or $4 trillion deeper in debt. just from a dollars and cents standpoint, if you delay entitlement reform, it's really costly. let's do it all. we ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time in this country. >> defense $744 billion. this isn't just iraq and afghanistan. this is a budget that we spend. creates a lot of jobs in the country. some people believe we should get out of the wars. i'm one of those people. other people believe we have no choice but to stay. regardless of your point of view on the wars, it is clearly a big chunk o...

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Source. >> right, they're confirming -- we heard it at the state of the union and mr. obama said we've created those jobs over the last 23 months. let's say the 23 months and he's been president for 36 months or 37 months but independently, 2 1/2 million jobs created. $744 billion was spent, according to recovery.gov and that comes to almost $297,000 per job. almost $300,000 per job. >> some jobs cost over a million. >> some jobs cost over a million. how do you come up with the numbers? if you hire someone for six months, they finish that job and then you hire -- no, you rehire the same person...