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Samuelson, it's hysterical. obama do something about our entitlements e. says he's going to and then the republicans all cry, oh it's not enough, he doesn't mean it. come on. the larger issue here is though republicans seem to procedure get who won the election and seem to not be paying attention to every public opinion poll since then. americans are not worried about the debt and deficit, they are worried about jobs. we have a short-term jobs problem, we have a long-term debt problem. you fix jobs, you get people back to work, you start growing incomes again, you start to pay down the deficit...

The left. >> we see, that's the thing. look, i think we really need to lower our voices, perhaps, negotiate in private and recognize the president has problems from left flank, the republicans from the right flank. but we all have to come together because these are american problems. they're not democratic problems. it is not the president's problem. it is all of our problems. if we can do immigration, we can do guns and we can do something about the burgeoning debt problem, the entitlement problem which is unsustainable. we all benefit. but if we all fail, we all lose, rick. jon: something li...

>> i like comedians as comedians not as politicians. the count tree is ungovernable. why is that the case? they've had an entitlement problem that they've been racking up for the past 30 years. people think oh, italy is this big economic basket case it's always been that way, not true. the first 25 years after world war ii they had an economic miracle. italy's growth rate exhe'ded germany. jenna: better pick up one of the points you made, and i say this as half italian, i got neil cavuto in the background, we have the italians represented in fox news. but it seems sometimes when we talk about ...

Have to deal with the debt bomb. >> neil: he did take that stuff. that kid is still waiting outside the building. you mean, its good analogy but you are right. >> we are taking from them. the entitlement problem, the medicare and social security that is going to bankrupted us and we older people, i have paid in all my life but they don't know they are getting three to four times what they paid in. >> neil: or for the matter, nobody is taking it away from the current beneficiaries, it's all about phasing in, their grandkids either they don't care about their grandkids and lot of grandkids are a...

Things -- >> yeah, this isn't like the university of alabama back in the 1990s when they found out that one of their football coaches was sexually harassing somebody. they decided not to get rid of him, but they said he'd better win at least 11 games the next year, or they'd be really offended by it. i mean, this is situational ethics on the yankees' part, right? >> it is. and they've been looking for a way to get rid of a-rod for a long time, but there is no way because no team will take that contract and eat it. they've been looking at every possibility because of this latest revelation to g...