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A bad hair day. the treasury department said today government posted deficit in april of almost $83 billion. that is almost four times the deficit for last april. several american cities are facing big deficits of their own. senior correspondent rick leventhal looks an extreme measure one city is considering. >> reporter: garbage, trashing the economy of a capital city. this incinerator was supposed to be a win-win for harrisburg, p.a. built in the '70s, it selected cash to burn waste, creating cheap energy in the process. it was unenvironmentally unfriendly and costs on a high-tech overhaul s...

>> there's a lot of bumps and scrapes along the way, but the republican system works, the democratic system works, the problem is no disrespect to your program or to cable news program is all this yelling back and forth, and i think you can back me up on this, is we need to step back and listen to other people's ideas and we need to move forward hopefully in a bipartisan way. >> i thank you you saw a lot of republican obstructionism this year and people are fed up with it. >> he was trying to be bipartisan there. >> bipartisan leaf and she just rips it out. >> they have been known as a party o...

Goofed, joking he was having a bad hair day. the treasury department said today government posted deficit in april of almost $83 billion. that is almost four times the deficit for last april. several american cities are facing big deficits of their own. senior correspondent rick leventhal looks an extreme measure one city is considering. >> reporter: garbage, trashing the economy of a capital city. this incinerator was supposed to be a win-win for harrisburg, p.a. built in the '70s, it selected cash to burn waste, creating cheap energy in the process. it was unenvironmentally unfriendly and co...

Government spending. correspondent william la jeunesse tells us where you can find it. >> reporter: deficit and debt, people all get confused but both can kill your budget. if you make $$100 and spend $150, it's $50 deficit. both add up and both are problems but what concerns economists now is what america is paying in interest. when you combine the public debt, that's what we owe china and others and the intergovernmental debt, what we owe the social security, the interest alone the $383 billion. that is more money than we spend on energy, agagriculturag, education, every agency combined exce...

Government be the same way and can washington afford more debt on our credit card, judge for yourself. when you combine public debt, what we owe china and others and our intergovernmental debt, what we so social security the interest alone is $383 billion. that is more money than we spent on energy, agriculture, homeland security, and education, almost every other government agency combined, except health and defense and how can you decide if the next thikxt thing congres to buy is worth it and we're introducing the taxpayer calculator on foxnews.com and it allows you to break down the budget ...