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We have seen it and you you have little known provision for $5 billion for early retirement. american people still polls show they are even more against it today than they were a year ago this week when it passed. do you you think that it is beaten back, repealed in the come or is it in the cords. if it toesent buy its death one way. i think the courts will ultimately absolutely that it is uncounty tucksal. it is the equivalent of a loyalists dern day poll tox. if they didn t let s hope congress has the guts to refeel it and get rid of it and let s start over and really reform the healthcare. governor huckabee, thank you very much. thank you. all right, president obama in maryland today. pushing companies to convert ....
Adam kinsinger joins me now. welcome to the program. great to be here. you are looking for $61 billion of cuts in a $3.7 trillion budget. you re being called an extremist. are you going to back off at all when there is that kind of name calling. you know what, the only thing extreme in the whole debate is what the other side is saying and saying, frankly, ex-extreme comments like you just played and doing it to take the focus out of the fact that the congress last year failed to do the most basic job of congress and that is to pass a budget. so now we are operating on a continuing resolution and give is us an opportunity, the american people sent us here to reduce big bloated bureaucratic government that is crowding out the free market and that is what we are doing. we are going to reduce the size of government. do you think that the harsh rhetoric calling you an extremist time after time after time, 70,000 children will die, ....
Democrats in congress set aside $5 billion to pay for this. found out so far in less than a year they put out $1.8 billion. they will hit their $5 billion by next year. i want to sh show the viewes where the money has been going. the united auto workers evenon $206 million. largest single recipient. the california public employees getting $57 million. texas teachers got $68 million. general motors got $19 million and let s not forget general electric which paid no tax on $14 billion worth of profit got $46 million as a handout. how about that? and at&t got $140 million. and these are companies that have found it some what expensive and have made expensive deals to provide insurance to people who did provide who retired early. i don t get the motivation ....
Others. money used to pay for early retirement healthcare benefits. is your money. my next guest exposing it. byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner breaking that story. he joins me now. why are we giving taxpayer money to anybody for early retirement. that is what some republicans on capitol hill are trying to find out. they discovered some of this just last month before a hearing for the house energy and commerce committee. what it is, there is a provision in the obama care billed called setting up the early retirees reinsurance program. there are a number of unions as well as state public employees organizations and some big corporations, too, who have committed to insuring their retirees who retire early between the ages of 56 and 64, not eligible for medicare are. but we pay for it? and we absolutely do. the government, the congress set aside, actually the dep ....