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The highest ever. >> right. and then to the extent we're having this -- >> yet paul ryan continues to propose the ryan budget which is stop austerity again. >> because the alternative things that the republican party could propose that would address the concerns of the middle class are not things that conservative the want. i mean, you can look at the list of proposals he put with that post. most of which were fairly small. some of them are good ideas. one of them is promoting job sharing programs which germany has used with success, where basically you encourage employers instead of laying pe...

Will our economic health signs be today if we hadn't done that, how much healthier would we be, how much lower would unemployment be. >> this is the key issue in washington, can't get anyone to consider that, can't get people to say what would unemployment be without the stimulus. can't get people to say what would the year 2011 be without that crisis. we are doing things in a dumb way. say you're the biggest deficit hawk on earth. say all you care about is the deficit. you shouldn't be happy either. it is coming down, it should make you happy, but it is not coming down as quick as it would co...

Recovery, and we should be. >> i completely agree. the problem we are going to confront is because we had this drastic deficit reduction and disaster hasn't hit the economy, washington will think you can cut the deficit and it will hurt. what we will never know is where will our economic health signs be today if we hadn't done that, how much healthier would we be, how much lower would unemployment be. >> this is the key issue in washington, can't get anyone to consider that, can't get people to say what would unemployment be without the stimulus. can't get people to say what would the year 201...

>> tax reform is much more popular than cutting people's entitlements. so what happened was, right, obama said fine. you want to cut entitlements i'm going to propose some entitlement cuts, but when these guys had to defend the ryan budget, which cuts medicare in ten years out and changes it into a voucher program, the way they defended this and sold it to their constituents to voters was by saying we won't hurt anyone for ten years. we won't touch your benefits now. so this changed cpi comes out and realize, this is cutting people's entitlements right away. we don't want to say we support tha...

Wound a very serious one, be avoided through a plan to use what is called the overseas contingency operation account, which is money that's been budgeted for an afghanistan war five years and more out that will simply not be used. the republicans counted that money as savings in their budget, the ryan budget, and we're saying let's take about 140 billion of approximately 600 billion that can be saved and avoid the sequester for the next five months. those absolutely chilling consequences not only to our intelligence operation but also to military readiness and the human impacts. and by the way...