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Politics. you can't touch that. >> it has to be a combination of the two. has to be a combination of the spending issue that's out of control, excessive and anything beyond what we've seen in hft, that's what's exploding our national debt, that's what will hurt our next generation, that's what we'll leaf as a legacy to our kids. however, the revenue piece is important. there are thing we can do without government involvement. get government out of the way, let companies go. a subpar recovery has generated very little economic growth. that's part of the reason we have this issue. no question, s...

Impact of obamacare because what this administration has done is very carefully -- pushing off the business mandate, that's a big part of it, they have taken all the headlines out and pushed it into 2015 and 2016. >> sure. >> if you don't have that drumbeat every day of disasters happening and they push off the potential cancellations further, it's -- it potentially takes away the hostility. >> but just like the entitlement issue, juan, it is still looming and people see it out there. it's coming. something is not going to -- you know, there's still bad stuff that potentially happens around th...

Favor this year. we have great candidates. >> you have grabbed the feet from vick ri before. >> we are sometimes able to do that as republicans. >> you don't think it's going to happen this time? >> i certainly hope not for the sake of the country. the issues that you and i talk about, the entitlement issue, the debt and deficit issue are not being resolved. we're just kicking the can down the road. we're not helping people to get a job. we're also not providing the growth to have the revenues to deal with our historic levels of debt and deficit. i certainly hope we can change the dynamic in w...

Successful. i understand that there's a $16 trillion in debt, and we have a unique problem with a weak economy recovery, and it seems that congressman markey is talking about everything but the economy. >> greta: what would you do? >> well, i would focus first on the economy. i'd focus on the spending side. also focused on the revenue side. we need to address the spending side. we need to address cuts in certain programs. we've got all parts of the government could have some kind of cuts. i also think we need to potentially address the entitlement issue as well. for people of my generation, th...

Successful. i understand that there's a $16 trillion in debt, and we have a unique problem with a weak economy recovery, and it seems that congressman markey is talking about everything but the economy. >> greta: what would you do? >> well, i would focus first on the economy. i'd focus on the spending side. also focused on the revenue side. we need to address the spending side. we need to address cuts in certain programs. we've got all parts of the government could have some kind of cuts. i also think we need to potentially address the entitlement issue as well. for people of my generation, th...