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Take care of all of us. >> i have two for you. i like that lens. you are talking about i like you challenging the notion of calling it entitlements. what should we call it instead? >> i think we should call it investment. take social security. one third of all americans rely 90% of the pay they get to pay for food and pay their rent and pay for their heating bill is paid for by social security. for over 50% of americans, social security is paying close to 50% of their cost of living. we have to look at what people are actually able to pay their bills. far too many americans are retiring withou...

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People's cynicism about washington generally. this is not one of those situations where there's an equivalence. i've got some of the most liberal democrats in congress who are prepared to make significant changes to into it entitlements -- into it entitlements that go against their political interests and who said they were willing to do it. and we couldn't get a republican to stand up and say we'll raise some revenue or even to suggest that we won't give more tax cuts to people who don't need them. and so i think it's important to put the current debate in some historical context. it's not ju...

See this downward spiral in the economy? >> well, certainly washington isn't helping right now. you're right we've had gridlock in washington now for over a yore where almost nothing got down. one ever the untold stories is that we just completed the budget. that got overshadowed by this tax debate. but you know what, they didn't -- after all the fracas this year they didn't actually cut any spending. all the programs survived. there were very few program terminations. the entitlement programs were not touched at all. it was almost like a lost year of dealing with this enormous deficit. i just...

The threshold to 51 votes so it wouldn't be 60 and they could all vote against it and let the democrats pass it. >> yeah. >> by the way, when i first came to work on the hill the democratic leadership would pass spending limits. iron-clad spending limit of $285 billion and then pass two amendments exempting it entitlements and any appropriation that went higher so games are being played. what about campaign financing. you've got a big pac out there like everybody else with all this money coming $37 million. the american people are supposed to believe that the guy who's running who's benefiting...