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You go that record surpluses ran into record deficits. line by line, identifying $20 billion in savings alone. we've cut or identified scores of outmoded programs and began to reform our bloated contracting system. we've also successfully challenged the custom in congress of courting favorite contractors by approving weapons systems the pentagon itself says it doesn't want or need. because in these hard times, we have to save where we can afford, so that we can pay for what we need, the same way families do. finally, i've proposed a freeze in government spending for three years n this won't af...

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Something innocuous. we are going to have to hit the floor with the housing market so we can get a correction. we cannot prop it up like we did with programs and the number one thing we have to do if you cut the size of government you have to cut the size not just continue to grow it which mean we will have to trim defense spending, streamline it, we have to fix the contracting system. there are multiple things and not one individual item is going to resolve this. >>neil: i wish i had more time but i want to steal you back, these are the early readings we are getting from the debt commission, ...

Yes, there is waste and corruption, but a lot of it has nothing to do with the afghan government. it is the contracting system. >> what is worrisome to congress, to americans, is that it's not, oh, there's corruption in the government because governments do have their corruption parts. it's that the president is corrupt. that he, you know, was corrupt from the election on, that he's trying to help his friends. that's more difficult because this is the man that we need to have stand up to his country so u.s. troops can leave. >> president karzai is the most hard-working president in afghanistan...

Government. it's the contracting system. whach >> what is worry some to congressman and americans, is governments do have the corruption parts, it's that the president is corrupt, that he, you know, he was corrupt from the election on. he is trying to help his friends. that is more difficult, because this is the man that we need to have stand up his country so u.s. troops can leave. >> president karzai is the most hard-working president in afghanistan. he is the most sincere partner the united states has in the region. probably one of the very few presidents in that region of the world that ha...