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>> i'll let bob woodward in the white house litigate who is right on that matter. disagreement abounds i would agree with peggy more than she suspects. business community, working people, pedestrians can't survive and live and flourish if we operate our government at the federal level month by month, three quarter by quarter round clips. reality 9.4% in automatic cuts if this sequester goes through, 8.25 to discretionary spending. i've heard the president and my friends in congress and manages say they wish they had a scalpel to move things around but they don't. the thing that's the most impo...

Long-term cateindicatcateindici. if you're making a 7%, 8% cut in the pentagon, the first thing you must do is pull back an aircraft carrier from the persian gulf. really, it's the first thing? with that said, when you begin looking at the numbers and the difficulty of cutting, you realize you can't furlough uniformed military personnel. you're going to end up furloughing civilians. you can't make certain cuts so they become more drastic. in this situation they could have made more long-term. they have multiple deadlines, as we all know. what people in congress are talking about, how to combin...

We are for a balanced approach. we've had more than enough revenues, more than enough growth in government spending. now is the time to start shrinking our spending so we can grow private sector economy, not the government. >> first of all, this isn't about whether there are or are not cuts. the president's plan has cuts. to some extent deeper cuts than the sequester provides. it also has the closing of loopholes, some of the same loopholes speaker boehner favored only a little while ago. what we've seen is more of the same, the congressional governors move the guam post as soon as the governm...

The president has to stand up to the plight. if he really thinks this will devastate the military, air traffic control, really devastate meat inspection, they rolled out great political theater, cutting 3% of the budget can cause all these consequences, here is a chance to say here is how we can do it better. the reality is the federal budget even after the cuts will be larger than last year's budget. bob woodward has a great piece where he -- he doesn't use these words, basically says the president has amnesia. he proposes sequester, signed it into law and doesn't want to make the cuts. the r...

John boehner himself, the speaker of the house, said this would hurt national security to let the sequester go forward. why not agree to additional revenues for cuts. >> we're agreeing to government economy. the greed of washington, d.c. there's never enough revenue, never enough taxes for this administrati administration. i agree with my friend, we should be about growing private economy. nobody is saying we should do the cuts this way. in 2011 this president campaigned on a commitment he made. he made it to congress, signed into law saying he didn't want to have the deficit fight, the budget...