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Increase taxes on wealthier individuals in order to cut benefits for wealthier people doesn't make a lo the of sense. so it's an example of where the administration could say to democrats, you know what, this one makes sense. it's in my budget. i'm going to give you political cover on it. let's make progress together. it doesn't solve the whole debt problem but it begins to take us down the road towards not leaving our kids and grandkids this unconscienable debt. what if we made progress on something, two-thirds of the budget on auto pilot that is not appropriate. we have done a good job on re...

To the sage of omaha and have a conversation with mr. buffett, who really understands finance and obviously the good doctor doesn't have a clue what national, international finances are all about. he is absolutely dead wrong. this is a major crisis. if the united states were to default, it is a default crisis of unknown proportions, because never in the history of this country has the united states not been able to pay. and, by the way, these are debts, these are obligations that are racked up by us in congress over the last century. so we are going to pay our debts, unless -- unless speaker b...

Put to george w. bush, look at his budgeting process. the war is off budget, medicare, the tax cuts, all of those things, but you can make the case, and i said this to a georgetown university class just last year, you can make the case that george w. bush was one of the best conservative presidents the country had in terms of generational push. he put two people on the supreme court that delivered citizens united to us that we're dealing with to this very day in this election cycle. the bushes have had a tremendous impact. the country understands that we're dealing with the aftermath of the de...

Think, is in large part just gone. you talk about -- people don't talk about the war in the news media. >> even more dangerous, i don't think the american people have a clue about the real cost of the war because we do so much off-budget, it's incredible the cost of the war. >> the emergency supplements, as if it was a constant shock every six months we're at a war we have no plans to get out of. the obama administration has changed that. current administration is cognizant of the ideas that i write about in the book, about being ways that we've drifted off of our constitutional course. they h...

To fork out another $5.5 billion to stay afloat because we tell you you have to fund your retirement and pension for the next 75 years just to make sure you guys know what the hell you're doing. what business in america gets nailed like this by the congress? now, keep in mind what was happening in 2006? well, we had the wars going on, and they were off-budget, weren't they? you see, the republicans, they didn't want to pay for the wars, but they wanted to stick it to the postal service positive make sure their funded 75 years out when it comes to retirement and health care. hell, they were fun...