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So government agencies actually disbursed $136 billion on prepaid cards. card issuers collected $190 million in fees. 6 0% of card holder fees came from the atms. when i found out we were doing it too, i was like what is happening here? >> and we did not fix that in regulatory -- financial regulatory reform. >> yeah. >> i think it's outrageous. first of all, what we are doing is institutionalizing another mechanism that's going to continue to create the structural inequality. we're creating two societies here in this country. and we're really waging this terrible war on low-income workers, whi...

Flying business community, but kids with cancer s. you're going to screw them. c'mon. they asked for cuts, they got them. the president signed the sequester bill into law, but they're saying not for this one, maybe not for that coffee cup, maybe not for alex witt or tony fratto, but for -- >> get your head inside the -- interpreting -- >> i have a pox on all their houses view of it. we have a broken budget system, right? the only way -- i would love to say, yeah, we shouldn't be doing piecemeal. obviously we shouldn't be. it's almost like there's no other way to do it. i understand like the sp...

That even the pentagon budget has a little bit of fat. >> nicole, that's what democrats have been saying for decades. there's something -- what's interesting, though, is that in the senate and to this point that you were making, alex, about let the senate do it, there were three -- in the sequester bill that tried to come to the floor mitch mcconnell literally filibustered all three. two were a republican bill. there was a kelly ayotte bill. there was a republican bill that would have given more discretion to the executives saying you could actually do what you're saying, which is to trim it h...

Out our philosophies. i was talking to a senior senate republican aide yesterday who said what you can expect to see from us next week is a caricature of democrats, republicans feel like democrats successfully charactered mitt romney who favors the rich over the middle class, played him as a greedy republican. so they're going to flip the script a bit on democrats and say, hey, these are the guys who love big g. they love big spending, they can't get new, they can't find anything to cut in a trillion dollar budget? you have to be kidding me. we'll see a replay of these very stereo typical care...

Substantive and sincere process for which spending is going to be on the table. because so far, we've had a commission. we've had a task force. we've had a fiscal cliff. nothing has put spending on the table. >> and i appreciate ej's support here. but i want to make a point that he may not be as enthusiastic about. they have two vehicles. they have a continuing resolution which is at the end of march, and they have the sequester bill. now these are legitimate government spending bills. the debt ceiling is different because it triggers all of these international financial problems. and it trigg...