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They say, well, there is no problem at all with the deficit, because there is. >> to me it's about the priorities of our country. america is not broke. it's our priorities that are broke. and it's a measure of how out of whack the debate in this country is that the simpson/bowles 2.0 lopsidedly favoring spending cuts is treated as this mythical arbitrary center in washington inside the beltway. do elections matter? do what people have signaled as their priorities? we should be investing in job creation as the best means of deficit reduction. we shouldn't be cutting and bleeding our economy. an...

They threaten to crash the government if they don't like the way it's doing something. if they don't like who the american people have elected as republican. isn't what the republicans did in the old days? if they didn't like a government somewhere, guatemala, iran, chile, they just brought it down. guess what? republicans are now using the same tactic here at home. if they don't like who we have elected as president, they find some way to undermine the president. whatever it takes to destroy it. we are using in this country the same old cold war cia tactics to destabilize our own country. loo...

And it's a hoax because it won't work. >> president obama needs to hear from the public again. this is when people need to connect with their representatives and senators to make sure that the simpson/bowles doesn't even get into the equation. because that's not what we voted for in this country. we're a center-left progressive country right now. and the time to move forward is right now and not allow the republican obstructionists to get in the way. jonathan alter, katrina vanden heuvel, great to have you with us tonight. thank you so much. remember to answer the question. share your thoughts...

Right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. >> michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on "the ed show." erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted fo...

Problem at all with the deficit, because there is. >> to me it's about the priorities of our country. america is not broke. it's our priorities that are broke. and it's a measure of how out of whack the debate in this country is that the simpson/bowles 2.0 lopsidedly favoring spending cuts is treated as this mythical arbitrary center in washington inside the beltway. do elections matter? do what people have signaled as their priorities? we should be investing in job creation as the best means of deficit reduction. we shouldn't be cutting and bleeding our economy. and if there was any measure o...