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But it's budget deficit is 13.6 of the size of its economy, that is too big to be sustainable. that's why all of these people are being asked to take huge cuts in benefits and public of thes as part of a $146 billion bailout to try to sustain this country so it doesn't literally go bankrupt. among the things that we're talking about here are cuts to pepgs, as you pointed out. we're talking about major tax hikes. we're talking about aggressive tax collection among other things. among other things, this austerity plan incredibly popular, three people killed in a bank yesterday in athens. this is...

They ran it up so big and now you are saying because they ran it up -- look, look, look, juan. you are a baseball fan. >> they ran it up because of what? we were in a terrible recession. and we were involved in two major wars. >> no doubt. >> okay. so slow down. and the final point to you is, you know what? we have about the lowest number of federal employees, despite the fact the population is much bigger, we got all the -- lowest number last 47 years bill o'reilly. >> they don't take much money anyway. let me put forth this. both parties would say you know what 18 trillion is unsustainable a...

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Let me edebt and deficit. you want your health care taken care of by the government, right? but then you have another problem. we have $90 trillion in unfunded liabilities. i it's unsustainable. you all studieded math, went to good colleges. you've got to balance this. help me out between paying the money back and get ing the government you say you believe in. >> i want to say one thing about how our country has been run in the last five years. first of all, we were hit by the great recession. when you are hit by a great recession, the worst thing to do is have an austerity plan. cut budget is...

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