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We'd live at the budget control act numbers. we promised them we would. we're now two years later, and in this bill we're saying we're going to make up for all this in the last ten years of the next ten-year budget window. how many people would really believe that? you know, we're dishonest with the american public. number two is there's so much waste. there's a quarter of a trillion waste just in the discretionary program in the federal government outlined by the gao. that's not their number, that's mine. the fact is if congress hadn't acted, not one of the things in this waste book that has ...

Funds which are medicare and social security, earned benefits there, and medicaid, which is the largest of the entitlements, you're looking at a 79% growth. and of course that is over a ten-year period of time, which is the budget window. >> you want to see entitlement reform? >> we need to put that on the table and say, how do we come together for the good of the american people, for future generations, for our solvency and get this out-of-control spending under control and do that in a way that is going to be helpful to getting this debt under control? it's not fair to future generations to ...

On new revenues, which is code for new taxes. what has, again, gotten lost, taxes went up on january 1st. we had one of the largest tax increases in history. he has about $600 billion of new taxes during what we call the budget window. he has revenues. the government will take in more money this year than it ever has before in its history. this is -- we've never had as much money as we had this year. we still run a $00 billion defic deficit. >> are conservatives ready to deal, though, to bargain? the question is always, taxes, taxes in spending, revenue, new taxes, no taxes, medicare changes. ...

Go down the chute and right down boo the water. a toll disaster. it would have been great to have let that go on its own. by the same token, if we come out of this where the president of the united states, who in his latest budget is talking about spending $3.8 trillion compared to $3.5 trillion from the house republicans, and he has to admit, we have to rein in entitlement spending. >> he's admitted. that he's been open to an i crease in retirement age. >> he has not done anything other than talk about chain cpi and his own budget window. that's where the republicans will be able to say at th...

It seems to me that republicans know, they really messed up on making that the be all and end all. >> i think there is a strategic question. it is like a guy trying to fly flapping wings or something to go down the chute and right down boo the water. a toll disaster. it would have been great to have let that go on its own. by the same token, if we come out of this where the president of the united states, who in his latest budget is talking about spending $3.8 trillion compared to $3.5 trillion from the house republicans, and he has to admit, we have to rein in entitlement spending. >> he's ad...