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Adam. gas taxes don't pay for our military, period. >> neil: but there are a lot of people, retirees who did pay, did pay to the system and i understand where you're coming from. and gary, back to you on this notion of what do we do now? i'm the not here to offend our retirees or offend our soldiers and had a productive working lifetime and gave to uncle sam. we're looking at a pretty big pot and still pissing the money away and we've got to address that. when we rule out half the tax base, short of just doubling, trippling taxes on the rich, i don't know are you go. >> neil, raising taxes is ...

The union reviews the agreement. >> both sides have been at odds mainly over teacher evaluations and job security. the union president said last night the teachers are not happy with the agreement. well, grim news for hockey fans. it's day two of the player lockout with the two sides miles apart and no talks scheduled. the main issue, of course, is money. how should owners and players divide up a revenue pot of $3.3 billion? the standoff is likely to last months, and some players are already baling, signing to play with other leagues. >> this could be devastating for the nhl. they had a lock...

Medicare for retirees, but they'll pass legislation that will remake medicare in an entirely different way, trust us. you may not want to assume that policy is a total lock. but he says his budget cuts more than $5 trillion in the next decade. less than a trillion of that is coming from medicare. romney says his budget cuts about $7 trillion from the budget in the next decade and not a dollar, not a dime, not a penny comes from medicare. and neither romney nor ryan want to cut social security, and both want to increase spending on defense. okay, so what does that leave? if you're not cutting m...

Mainly left, the big pot of money you can still cut? programs for poor people. if you look at ryan's specific cuts, where his money reamy comes from. a big chunk of it is programs for poor people. in fact, the center for budget and party policies estimated more than 6 of every 10 dollars ryan cuts from the federal budget is coming from programs for the poor. take medicaid. he cuts nearly $1.4 trillion from medicare over the next ten years. that's a 34% cut. more than a third to the program's expected spending over the next decade. those cuts, unlike the cuts to medicare, are specific and they ...

Mainly left, the big pot of money you can still cut? programs for poor people. if you look at ryan's specific cuts, where his money really comes from. a big chunk of it is programs for poor people. in fact, the center for budget and party policies estimated more than 6 of every 10 dollars ryan cuts from the federal budget is coming from programs for the poor. take medicaid. he cuts nearly $1.4 trillion from medicare over the next ten years. that's a 34% cut. more than a third to the program's expected spending over the next decade. those cuts, unlike the cuts to medicare, are specific and they...