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Gas revenue. >> put people to work as soon as possible on most urgent repairs. >> make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. >> redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates, training and equipping forces. >> and invest in capabilities, reduce waste in war time spending. >> invest in worldclass hacare including mental care for our warriors. >> and he throws out platitudes and the underlying economics behind that are illusional. >> i think that a lot of politics here, we're not funding things that are obsolete and the obvious things, there's a whole...

Reductions have to occur, 40 plus cents of every single dollar that we spend in this country. >> john: february 26th, newport news, virginia, president obama speaks to ship yard workers. >> what the sequester does, it uses a meat cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education and national security. >> john: but he again resists talk of an immediate catastrop catastrophe. >> the impact of this policy will not be felt overnight, but it will be real. >> john: it's tuesday, congressman, there are just a few days left to avoid the sequester. do you see anything coming down th...

Reductions that was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate cut to nondefense programs and republicans wouldn't stand cuts to the military. the theory was the cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen, but after months of deliberations, the supercommittee couldn't come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. now, sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens, that was the same time the so-called bush tax cuts were set to expire. together, it was a supercrisis. fed chairman ben bernanke gave it a na...

Private sector, which is you can't yell charge from your second home. >> john: meanwhile, congressional democrats and administration officials are fanning out across the country and they're not exactly saying the sky will fall if the sequester goes through, but close. among the things they say could happen, children exposed to lead paint, mentally ill patients untreated, uninspected meat, crops, closing of parks, more wildfires, cuts to early education, nutrition for seniors, community healthsters, small business employees, flight inspections and job training. and hurricane sandy victim. milit...

Gas revenue. >> put people to work as soon as possible on most urgent repairs. >> make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. >> redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates, training and equipping forces. >> and invest in capabilities, reduce waste in war time spending. >> invest in worldclass hacare including mental care for our warriors. >> and he throws out platitudes and the underlying economics behind that are illusional. >> i think that a lot of politics here, we're not funding things that are obsolete and the obvious things, there's a whole...