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Going to fight as hard as i can for the concept of shared sacrifice and not see massive cuts in medicare, medicaid, education, nutrition programs, the ability of working families to send their kids to college while the wealthiest people in the country don't have to participate in deficit reduction at all. >> today, you said if the proposal from the white house is a "piece of crap," the democrat caucus won't vote on it. first, is my quote right, piece of crap? >> i don't want to speak for anybody else. look, if we end up with a proposal, which allows the wealthiest people in this country and th...

Overwhelming in this country that it is basically insane that in the midst of a recession, when the middle class is addition appearing, when poverty is increasing, when so many people are hurting, that the republicans are coming forward and saying, hey, deficit reduction must be ending medicare as we know it, forcing ed elderly people to pay more for health care, slashing medicaid, throwing millions of kids off their health insurance. major cuts in education making it harder for working class families to send their kids to college. cuts in nutrition programs. you name it. ask the wealthy, doin...

>> america is not about giving tax cuts to billionaires and attacking the most vulnerable people in our country. rich get richer, they get tax break. poor get poorer, they lose their ability to send their kids to college, on nutrition programs or health care. does the president stand tall, do not yield to republican blackmail, stand with the vast majority of the american people who believe the deficit reduction requires shared sacrifice. >> bernie's clearly not alone. the senator's letter to the president, or at least half of the deficit plan to come from revenue has already now 46,000 signatu...