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Something important, the twin falsehoods even apart from the hypocrisy of his record. one is just because it has numbers in doesn't make it a budget. my lottery ticket is not a budget. just because there's a bunch of numbers on the page. >> that's your way to get the american dream. >> this thing has a lot of numbers that doesn't add up. it's more like fan fiction for ayn rand that it is a budget. he's not a deficit hawk to joy's point, he's a health care hawk. he's interested in going after every health care program that's on the books, from obama care as you just articulated to medicaid, the...

Billion in medicare cuts he ran against and i think a lot of people don't recognize he also keeps the new taxes in the president's health care plan. the part he gets rid of is the care in obama care. he gets rid of the spending in it. if he didn't do those two thing, get rid of the spending but keep cost controls, he couldn't get anywhere near balancing the budget and he also couldn't pass those two policies. new taxes and medicare cuts within the next ten years. over his own conference. so he's actually piggybacking on a lot of president obama's work in this balanced budget. >> yeah, a lot of...

Is supposed to be a budget that's effectively giving the house gop and the republican party their marching orders or a banner to walk beneath, it's coming at a weird time. because we're talking about medicare here and turning that into a block grants to the states. that's coming against the relief of multiple, 27 states in this country opting to expand medicaid roles under the affordable care act. >> although possibly backing off in florida. but yes you're right. i give the budget a little more credit. i do think it's a budget and i think the numbers add up. but i don't like the way he makes t...

A lot of president obama's work in this balanced budget. >> yeah, a lot of times this guy gets a free ride in washington journalism. he's supposed to be the brainiac. yet, portrayed as some sort of a deficit hawk. yet when i'm reading your article, your analysis and others, what i'm getting to, he's not a deficit hawk at all. basically he's a guy who wants to shift economic wealth or opportunity from the bottom or -- to the top. he wants to create an ayn rand existence where the winners make all the money. the looters as they call them in those books get screwed. i'm just asking, how does he k...

Economic growth that we've got in the united states. before the election, i promised that i would wear a dress if 12 million jobs are created over the next four years under any president and whether or not i plan to honor that pledge, i am constantly reminded of it. as crazy as this sounds, i actually want to lose my bet, not that i want to wear a dress, but i want a lot of jobs to be created. none of this seems to matter to investors right now. the dow broke a record high last week, highlighting that disconnect that some of you think between the wider economy, how you feel, and corporate amer...