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Science as you mentioned and infrastructure. those will be crowded out, because those, a big portion of the spending is committed to programs for older people. and if those grow on the -- at the rate that they have been growing it will squeeze out almost everything else. >> and one of the other dangers about that, too, aside from the automatic programs like medicare is that we can do reduction in a dumb way, instead of cutting tax expenditures and cutting in health care, we cut deep into things like education. and the sequester, which seems more likely to go into effect than i think anybody th...

Likely increase our unemployment rate. but it cuts in a really stupid way. program by program by equal percentages, and that means that things that we really care about and need to run the government and to grow the economy get cut just as much as things that we don't care as much about. >> one of the things about that, i think, is that when we talk about the deficit we tend to sort of -- and about the economy, we tend to talk about it in terms of what do we cut or tax? but a lot of whether or not we are going to be fiscally sustainable and have a reasonable budget in the coming years is about...