Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110215:20:19:00
What he said is it kind of stabilizes it. and his point is, i'm the long view guy. i'm the guy who's going to get this done, but don't expect me to do it tomorrow. and, by the way, let's see what the republicans come up with when they have to do their own budget proposal in the next couple of months. >> sure. of. >> it can be pretty complicated here. let's look at this graph here. it's the federal budget as simple as we can make it. 59% is actually locked-in spending on medicare, medicaid, social security, sot-called entitlements we're talking about. those are all untouchable at least to now. ...
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