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Deficit. the onion is very good at what it does. what the onion does is be funny. the onion is funny. it is satire. it is not real news which is important to point out on days like this. >> some have questioned whether this is the time for the government to start selling its holdings of gold at ft. knox as well as other assets. should the u.s. liquidate assets to pay off debt? >> cnn is not supposed to be funny. cnn is not supposed to be satire. but, yes, that is the same story that ran in "the onion" three weeks ago. cnn has not done anything wrong here. it's not like they've been duped by so...

Robbing ft. knox to pay down the deficit. the onion is very good at what it does. what the onion does is be funny. the onion is funny. it is satire. it is not real news which is important to point out on days like this. >> some have questioned whether this is the time for the government to start selling its holdings of gold at ft. knox as well as other assets. should the u.s. liquidate assets to pay off debt? >> cnn is not supposed to be funny. cnn is not supposed to be satire. but, yes, that is the same story that ran in "the onion" three weeks ago. cnn has not done anything wrong here. it's ...

Afghanistan and the spending thing, spending debt thing which i think is pretty good. but as i said, the presidents is very self-confident. he feels he's doing the right thing and, you know, if you watch the interview tonight, i throw pretty tough one at him and he is confident that, you know, everything is going to turn out okay. martha: do you think he changed, all the talk about the presidency, his leadership and style of doing things evolved over the past, you know, 60 days, couple of months since the tucson event? did you feel that in the sit-down and did he feel like a different presiden...

Their municipal bonds. this is the debt thing you mentioned. 70% of the public debt, it's 70%. the chinese and others have to finance that. when are they going to stop doing it? >> it's a great question. the cbo puts the national unemployment rate above 9% through 2011 and 8% through 2012. falling to a more natural rate only in 2016 when it estimates if will reach 5.3%. new projections show social security running permanent an qulul deaf sits unless congress acts to shore up the program. >> mark mckinnon, the president talked about a sputnik moment. but there's nothing -- that's going to be ...

Money will be coming in. everyone watching this show. when you get your check, all that tax dollars, that will be coming up. money will be flooding our government. we have to make a decision on what we want to spend it on but the money will come in. >> those who are giving the doom and gloom talk are different than the same ones giving similar doom and gloom talk at the other guy. then senator barrack obama saying we got to move on the debt thing had a different point of view in 2006 saying america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. americans deserve better. i therefore intend to ...