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Minus the fees from your broker, of course, grandma. did they warn you about those fees? the republican plan in the second bush term to privatize social security was a political disaster. the more president george w. bush traveled around the country and talked about this idea, the less popular the idea became and it started off about as popular as food poisoning. and at the time george w. bush was traveling around the country promoting this disastrous idea, back in washington, back in the house of representatives, a young radically conservative congressman from wisconsin was promoting legislat...

>> social security, first on the list. when george w. bush won re-election in 2004, the first thing he said he wanted to spend his political capital on, first on the list was social security. specifically what he meant was privatizing social security. no more social security safety net, just hand it over to wall street and hope your numbers come up as cherries instead of lemons when the wall street slot machine dial stops spinning. minus the fees from your broker, of course, grandma. did they warn you about those fees? the republican plan in the second bush term to privatize social security wa...

Agenda. social security and -- >> social security, first on the list. when george w. bush won re-election in 2004, the first thing he said he wanted to spend his political capital on, first on the list was social security. specifically what he meant was privatizing social security. no more social security safety net, just hand it over to wall street and hope your numbers come up as cherries instead of lemons when the wall street slot machine dial stops spinning. minus the fees from your broker, of course, grandma. did they warn you about those fees? the republican plan in the second bush term ...

Another big spending bill that president obama signed shortly after that. like i said this is not actul math. this is a number that i think he thinks sounds good. >> gretchen: he said two wars gone and we had to pay for them. and he said that tax cuts that we did not pay for and stimulus, i guess he would say that the country faced a fiscal cliff, do you agree? >> no, the tax cuts and wars all happened in the bush term. in 07, you are running a 161 billion deficit and then blows out a trillion in the obama years and the affect of all of those policiless had taken place. and the big change if y...

But when you put that on the same trip with the cultural problems the palestinians have, i think you're looking at a very bleak and frankly un-american view of what america can achieve with diplomacy. at the end of the bush term, i was speaking to the european diplomats who are deeply engaged. there's only one way, one way for the israeli-palestinian problem to be resolved. that is with presidential babysitting. clinton tried to do and carter successfully did. remember, egypt wasn't just another arab country that faced off against israel. it was its formidable enemy and an american president c...