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Who would choose just cutting spending. how about combination of both? can you get it done? >> tax increases don't plow into new spending. problem we have tax increases is going to pay for more deficit spending. let's say we need to reduce the deficit. that is the problem. [ applause ] >> we don't want to chase higher levels of spending and higher taxes because you'll shut down the economy. >> the point ways trying to make we're putting our ideas and defining by our actions by actually writing a budget in great detail and telling the country here is what we propose to solve this problem, jobs,...

Place. >> you just can't blame washington, sir. >> you have to back senator's tom coburn's plan. start cutting now. >> waste is defined differently. you don't have a uniform definition. one says tax cut, one says it's spending. we have to have a unilateral definition before we solve the problem. >> there is at least $400 billion waste and fraud of duplication just put out another study. gao put out a study over a hundred billion dollars of duplication, programs doing the same thing. congress did nothing on it. >> you won't find any individual in this crowd or republican or democrat says they a...

President instead of raising the debt by 78% is what we do if nothing happened it raises the debt by 76%. >> he continues to spend money that we don't have and doesn't seem to care what it's going to be ten years from now. >> phony arithmetic. >> i think the ideas are great in theory but it's a moot point if the senate doesn't put something forward. >> i think it's really important. i'm not going to cast blame on one house or the other. i think we have a job -- that is fine. i'm not here to defend the senate. i think it would have been great house passed a bill that was bipartisan that reflect...

Place. >> you just can't blame washington, sir. >> you have to back senator's tom coburn's plan. start cutting now. >> waste is defined differently. you don't have a uniform definition. one says tax cut, one says it's spending. we have to have a unilateral definition before we solve the problem. >> there is at least $400 billion waste and fraud of duplication just put out another study. gao put out a study over a hundred billion dollars of duplication, programs doing the same thing. congress did nothing on it. >> you won't find any individual in this crowd or republican or democrat says they a...

Budget. one lonely person. it's pretty negative reaction. how do you respond? >> i expect that reaction. that is the results that congress has provided. system is broken. we're in paralysis. our government has made promises that it knows it can't keep. republicans for democrats have been making empty promises and the bill is about to come due. we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the government spechbdz. we're mortgaging not just our children's future, but we're going to harm our economy. so what we decided to do in the house is to deal with this. is to tackle this challenge before it tack...