Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110210:11:26:00
Courage to do it? >> well, it's going to require an unlikely alliance, that is if the democratic president governing from center left wanted to make a fiscal austerity platform center piece, after a second term, you lose a lot of leverage there, could build an alliance with a caucus of opposition lawmakers you could have something. >> you say awe stausterity. interesting word. great britain is undergoing an austerity plan. what i'm talking about may not be implicated for a decade. if you're in your 40s you may not be getting social security at 65. that's the thing. they can forego short-term p...