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Recovery? >> well, the 2010 election was about what? a rejection of the democratic congress's explosion of spending. it's no accident that we picked up the house after the stimulus package, obama health care. the american people saw what was going on with doubling and tripling the debt and they said no. there is no way on god's green earth are you going to balance the budget until you put entitlements on the table, like ronald reagan and tip o'neill. david, what did they do? they adjusted the age, slowly but surely, from 65 to 67. we need tl means test benefits. everybody on this program could...

Politicians duck the issue until congressman ryan's proposal. >> doing it this way makes it solvent. >> john: congressman was hounded too in his own district. democrats say his medicare plan is why this woman won a special congressional election recently because she promised she would >> not decimated medicare. >> john: after she won her supporters command. >> yes, we are all future seniors, that is for sure. >> the message they get don't touch it especially medicare. in fact don't cut anything. give it's more stuff. >> roads and bridges. >> a we're all citizen lobbyists. >> citizen lobbyists ...

Social security, they argue, being stripped of over $100 billion needed to keep it solvent. a very difficult ideological battle at the core of this. >> well, and in the senate, talking about essentially the budget. do we keep the lights on in the capitol? keep the government running? this is not a small deal but i have to say, too, it is frustrating because, you know, there are a lot of people pretty happy that we had the bipartisan agreement on the tax deal. the republicans and democrats came together, at least the president and mitch mcconnell came together. >> this wasn't a bipartisan deal....