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Shut them up! jam a sock in it! republicans bought this up and said we got an idea. let s defund npr, use taxpayer money to something that doesn t have a political agenda and put that to a vote. they only get 1% to 3% of taxpayer money of overall funding. when they put the vote to the house, it was 239-171. for now, they keep their funding. here s a part of this that i love, though, is what inspired them to actually go for this vote was a program called you cut. so you can vote on an on-line contest as a constituent. you can have your voice heard by telling your politician what issues you want them to take up on the house floor and that s exactly it. 63%, they got 63% of the vote, the npr issue. exactly right and that you cut program was devised and implemented by the republican party and the u.s. congress but the real impetus of this was juan williams getting fired just a month or so ago and eric cantor and doug lambourne who ....
Karen, simon and stephen are back with us to answer some of the questions. guys, let s start off with this one. pamela had this great question about what s the first step shrinking government? first of all, do you agree and second of all, steven, how do you do that? first of all, if i couldn t answer that question, i d get fired. [laughter] so, yeah, i ve got three ideas right off the bat. if we want to get serious about bringing this deficit down, we have to repeal the obama health care bill. it s just mandatory that we don t have this massive new entitlement. second of all, how about this idea? let s defund npr after they fired my friend, juan williams, and third of all, let s not spend $100 billion of stimulus money that still hasn t been spent. it hasn t created jobs, so let s not keep wasting the money. jenna: simon, your thoughts on this? this is a great question, and republicans actually have no plans to reduce the deficit at ....