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Could cause for about 160 million americans. >> this is a manufactured crisis. we don't have a short-term deficit problem. we have a jobs and growth problem and we have a faltering recovery. we should put off the sequester. put off this grand bargain. come back. let the bush tax cuts expire. make sure the middle class doesn't have to pavement the schif a manufactured media drama. >> laura: wow, can you say out of touch? joining us now from new york is maxwell a democratic strategist and guy benson the political editor for "town hall.com." okay. this is quite something. we have been hearing fro...

Skewed, so wrong because we don't have a short-term deficit problem. we have a jobs and growth problem. i know people are agonizing. paul crudeman is agonizing about where it can did go. it's legitimately. is no -- is no bargain a better bargain than a raw bargain? it seems to me to make a deal on the backs of the most vulnerable in our country is the worst way to go. i don't think we're looking at balance. to me the way the media has characterized balance is so wrong because the vulnerable, the middle class, the lower working class don't have lobbies in washington where. >> democrats say we h...

Away. and we've got to face up at some point, if you have an economic union, who is actually going to pay the price? >> so this video has come into us. it's madrid last night. again, these are people who are protesting austerity measures. >> well, you've probably got about 50% youth unemployment in spain. >> oh, my god. >> that is something that cannot continue forever. you've got catalonia threatening to break away from spain now and asking for permission to hold a referendum or even about to hold it without permission. and i think that the problem is that europe is not growing. and you've go...

It's the current budget deal that forces us over the cliff january 2nd is going to cause a recession and all sorts of economic calamity in the united states. in other words, the credit rating agencies are actually on the other side of the fence from the fence they were on a year ago when they said what we're really concerned about is you're not cutting the budget enough. right now moody's is saying oh, my gosh, you're going to be cutting the budget too much, you're going to be raising the taxes too much. what everybody has got to real yiesz is take a deep breath and understand what we want at ...

States. in other words, the credit rating agencies are actually on the other side of the fence from the fence they were on a year ago when they said what we're really concerned about is you're not cutting the budget enough. right now moody's is saying oh, my gosh, you're going to be cutting the budget too much, you're going to be raising the taxes too much. what everybody has got to real yiesz is take a deep breath and understand what we want at the end is a budget deal that is not a republican deal that basically gives all the tax breaks to the wealthy and at at same time cuts all the program...