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Lost in the translegislation. >> sure. now, aside from the clear moral imperative to feed our nation's seniors, there is also, as i understand it, an economic benefit to this program, is that right? >> that's right. and that's the message that we're really trying to get across, because it appears that the social and moral imperative is not really working. we have learned that for every dollar invested in meals on wheels, there is a savings of up to $50 in medicaid alone. that doesn't include medicare. so let's talk about why that's so significant. we can feed a senior meals on wheels for an en...

Cutting spending. we have some brand new poll numbers on this very important issue. let's turn to cnn's joe johns. tell our viewers what these polls show. >> reporter: well, wolf, this is one of the most important questions you can possibly ask in politics. it's a question politicians have been asking, a question we here at cnn have been asking a lot of our viewers, so we posed that question to the people in a poll, and we got some very interesting answers, and here's the way we posed it. what would you cut? what's more important, preventing cuts in social security or reducing the deficit? and...

Copy. but to credit all our leaders in that position, they are so vested in the speeches they are giving on these occasions they have a huge hand in the writing of them. they're committed to the concept, so i think as gift of gab that clinton had, most presidents would get up there and say what they have to say in a rather eloquent way giving their vested in the speech in the first instance. >> let me read to you john boehner's statement that he put out today, the new speaker of the house, that he put out because the president is going to propose a five-year spending spree on certain discretio...