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There is no love lost there. >> kimberly: what did he take away? >> bob: i never heard, when the ceos run the lousy companys get the golden parachutes. >> kimberly: shay should be fired, too. >> greg: but that is private sector. this is killing the city, cities go bankrupt because of the selfishness. i love the fact that rahm emanuel might be growing up, now ther is spent eating its tail. >> bob: what is selfish about it? >> greg: what is the raise? 60% raise when people are out of work. they turned down a 60 president raise. nuts. >> kimberly: spoiled. >> greg: asking for more job security. w...

Faces, this fiscal problem. you can argue about which is better or which works best but there's not a single alternative from the other side. there is silence about what to do about it. not silence actually, they just attack us, about the entitlements. there is no message about tax reform. my budget, for instance, i have taken some of the president's ideas. i think wealthy senior citizens should pay a little bit more for their medicare benefits. >> wow. >> so in my budget, i have integrated the president's recommendation on increasing means testing. ron wyden to his cred embraced the plan for ...

Situation where there's too much polarization to get anything done. >> how confident are you that changes can be made and implemented and that we can be more productive in our political world? >> the two questions raised in that segment just before we came on is social security and medicare. i think both are solvable. they're two to three bamroom details away from being sustainable programs. it would require means testing, people born after a certain time would get this benefit, et cetera, et cetera. they're not the kind of things that politicians are ever going to argue for in public. when tw...

Nothing. there are bipartisan plans out there. on medicare, there was certainly one in the clinton administration. he had a panel that proposed something very much like the premium support plan that paul ryan and the republicans in the house proposed. and then there is a social security plan. it's not one we know, but speaker gingrich and president clinton agreed on reform plan in 198 # which would have done what everybody knows has to be done. raise edge of eligibility and do some means testing. unfortunately, this was late 19 # 7. before it could have been formalized and announced, monica le...

A family member who somebody is serving overseas. 2012, you have a co-pay of $12. in 2013, it will be $26 and topping out in 2017 for now at $34. >> so this is first ever enrollment fees. there haven't been enrollment fees for these retirees in the past. so if you're paying, for example, if you're a colonel, and you're paying $500, you're going to be paying $2,000. there's also means testing. they're saying, ok, those who are getting less in retirement will pay less. those who are getting more in retirement will pay more. so now we've adopted means testing for military retirees. >> about time,...