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Responsible governing, the burden of maintaining the great liberal successes of social security and medicare, and the rest of the social safety net falls and has always fallen exclusively to the creators of those programs. that is exactly how the republicans see it. republicans were opposed to the creation of social security. why should republicans figure out how to keep it going? republicans were opposed to the creation of medicare. why should republicans figure out how to keep medicare going? in decades past, republicans have contributed to solvency solutions to those programs, because they ...

Strike any one of us. there but for the grace of god go i, we say to ourselves. and so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work. unemployment insurance which protects us against unexpected job loss. and medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, those with disabilities. we're a better country because of these commitments. i'll go further. we would not be a great country without those commitments. >> true, we are a better country because of t...

That's not right, and it's not going to happen as long as i'm president. >> joining me now, senior political editor for the "huffington post" and howard feinman. also, the founder and president on the nonbudget center, bob greenstein. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> howard, i think what i heard was a veto threat of the president a veto of an attempt to preserve any of the low top tax rate by republicans. please tell me that was a veto threat i just heard. >> i think it definitely was a veto threat. i think more generally, you're seeing a more combative populist presid...

We call it unemployment insurance. they call it a government handout and wonder why the unemployed don't just start their own businesses. >> there but for the grace of god go i, we say to ourselves. and so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security. >> there but for the grace of god go i. i learned that phrase as a child, but i've never before heard that as the rationale for medicare and social security. i imagine medicare and social security are logical extensions of the concept enunciated in that phrase. there but for the grace of god go i. but we live in a country where pro...