Page 47 - Cutting Spending News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Is this -- >> teachers do it because they love it. >> well, that's good -- >> that's the only reason i do it. >> well, and listen, and teachers go it into it knowing what the pay scale is. >> who do you think understands the problem better? chris christie or president obama? >> so i want teachers to have higher salaries, i want them to have more support, i want them to be trained like the professionals they are. >> we are at a cross roads in this country when it comes to asking ourselves the question and making a determination as to which direction we take? what do we think of public education...

Them this spending increase and give them all additional irs employees that they are asking for, especially since they continually waste the money. >> with all due respect to congress, congress has the job of oversight, and we're talking about years and years and years of unbelievable spending by the irs in conferences. they are really parties. if you work here in this town, you know they are parties. >> the budget a bit flat, and took over congress in 2010. we started putting budgets down and started cutting spending. nancy pelosi, controlled congress from 2008 to 2010, when they had bigger b...

What are the benefits we're talking about for these people, many of who are out of work or underemployed? it comes down to about $15 a week on average for a family of three. $15 a day, i should say. that comes down to $5 a person. i mentioned all the numbers because if you look at that and you look at what was on the table, it's hard to understand why about half of the spending cuts should go against those people unless it's cynical because those people don't have a lot of power. and so when i look at the house republican caucus, i understand the desire to cut spending. we've talked a lot abou...

>> our country is on verge of being broke, and we have to do some courageous things to take us where we need to go. we have a spending problem in this country. i think everybody knows it. obviously spending is out of control. there's no question. i hope we'll quickly move to cutting spending. >> people understand that spending is out of control in washington. they understand that. >> young americans expect us to solve our fiscal issues so they aren't saddled with debt and robbed of their opportunity for the american dream. >> if you listen to bob corker, you would think he's interested in lowe...

Socialism. president obama and his socialist policies must be stopped. >> obama's socialist policies are bankrupting america. >> okay. with that said, here's where we stand today. the deficit is down $800 billion since the president took office. 38 straight months of private sector job growth, and the stock market is now reaching record highs. so, does that sound like socialism to you, joe? >> well, thankfully the 2012 presidential election is over. and hopefully republicans everywhere are heeding what senator -- former senator bob dole had to say about what the party needs to do going forward...