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Holiday. it doesn't address entitlement reform and delays the sequester for two months helping set up a series of mini fiscal cliffs in the coming months. what do you like about this and what do you not like about it? >> again, i would prefer not to raise taxes on anybody. but we protected almost every american. we did it at a higher income level than the president campaigned on. and again, frankly, we've denied him i think his most important piece of leverage in any negotiation going forward. so i particularly like that part. i understand unemployment extension. i prefer, you know, a more foc...

Part? what was concerning to you? >> dana: the piece about the fiscal cliff first. you think they have had a year to work on that the democrats and republicans could come together. i think what harry reid heard last night from the democrats is we are not going to do anything. this is reported in the national journal today. not going to do anything to make any change or sacrifice benefit for social security, medicare or medicaid. that would be a condition of speaker boehner, which is if we give you the revenue you have to help us on the spending side, on the entitlement issue. reid said i can't...

Tax. people don't realize, that's one of the two big things ruining our economy. and why is health care an entitlement that is bankrupting the country? why isn't a national security apparatus that costs more money than all the income taxes we pay for all of the things that it does to fight a war we're not going to face, why isn't that an entitlement issue we should be raising? >> you know, i think about the american worker. yes longer.one work a couple of this in a way, as you've said, it's a death sentence fome what do you think? >> this is cruel. it contradicts the religious teachings that s...

Our economy. and why is health care an entitlement that is bankrupting the country? why isn't a national security apparatus that costs more money than all the income taxes we pay for all of the things that it does to fight a war we're not going to face, why isn't that an entitlement issue we should be raising? >> you know, i think about the american worker. having someone work a couple of years longer. this in a way, as you've said, it's a death sentence for some people who don't have office jobs. what do you think? >> this is cruel. it contradicts the religious teachings that so many republic...

Eliminating the income tax. people don't realize, that's one of the two big things ruining our economy. and why is health care an entitlement that is bankrupting the country? why isn't a national security apparatus that costs more money than all the income taxes we pay for all of the things that it does to fight a war we're not going to face, why isn't that an entitlement issue we should be raising? >> you know, i think about the american worker. having someone work a couple of years longer, this in a way, as you've said, it's a death sentence for some people who don't have office jobs. what d...