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And barack obama encapsulates the changes that are happening in america. on election day, we had a percentage of the country who were not comfortable with adversity and we had a majority that was comfortable with diversity. >> i think that's a big problem -- i think they're really obsessed with the spending issue and illegal immigration. >> well, then, why didn't they revolt when george bush took us from a surplus to a deficit? >> they don't care about the deficit, they care about the spending. >> george bush was in their party and some of this was their pent-up anger in having to swallow it w...

Children, he saw a need in the community which was books for the homes, and he did something about it. >> reporter: and week after week the boxes of books just kept piling up. ryan apparently doesn't like to do things small. his parents could hardly believe it. >> our entire backyard was full of nothing but books and people. >> reporter: after six months, 25,000 books. >> super exciting, yeah. >> reporter: all going to 12 charities, 8 schools and 7 literacy programs prompting pages and pages of handwritten thank-you notes from a whole new generation of readers. >> it's hard to measure the impa...

We face, you have to overcorrect to get it to zero. you have to either raise taxes a lot or reduce spending a lot. mr. ryan doesn't raise taxes. our tax rate for the last self year has been lower than it's ever been. in order to get so zero when you want to reduce taxes, you have to utterly and entirely cut spending relating to seniors, the poor and our kids. i don't understand why that's a good policy decision. >> he said he's going to close loopholes without saying which loopholes. so that is unclear. what this does make clear is that in no uncertain terms, republicans are not giving up on

Obamacare. what would be the impact of doing that now and is there even a prayer that it would happen? >> of course there's no prayer it could happen. the president is not going to approve overturning obamacare, nor should he. and this is more of the flawed intellectual framework in the ryan budget. he repeals obamacare but embeds a bunch of the savings that obamacare is driving. so you kind of can't have it both ways in life and i think mr. ryan is try doing that in his budget. but the cuts to the spending, we need to really put this in context. if you look over 50 years, the historical avera...

They've been above the level of economic growth, which is why the debt has grown. if we get the deficits below the level of economic growth, if you assume we can grow the country 2% to 3% across the long term and if you get the deficits to 1% to 2%, then the debt goes down. that should be our goal. we shouldn't try to get to zero. but getting to zero, you have to do what mr. ryan wants to do, which is basically destroying public programs. >> aiding and abetting osama bin laden. that's next. it's not so smart then, is it? (laughter) nice phone, dude.