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You have a huge cash business on the side, that's apparently what they think. it looks like to me not so much a comparable business. looks like to me that the federal government is pretty cash poor and they're going to try to squeeze it out of everybody that they can. but that's just me. tom, thank you, and i hope you get a good letter back from the irs that they are now satisfied. >> okay, i do as well. thank you. >> and remember this one? dire warnings, the sequester would lead to furloughs from every federal agency from air traffic controllers to teachers? >> the people i feel for are the p...

There are children who have had to enter a lottery to determine which of them get to stay in their headstart program with their friends. there are seniors who depend on programs like meals on wheels that they can live independently but who are seeing their services cut. that's what the so-called sequester means. some people may not have been impacted, but there are a lot of folks who are being increasingly impacted throughout this country. and that's why my budget replaces these cuts with smarter ones, making long-term reforms, eliminating actual waste and programs we don't need anymore. so bu...

Hurting middle class families, there are children who have had to enter a lottery to determine which of them get to stay in their head start program with their friends, there are seniors who depend on programs like meals on wheels so that they can live independently but are seeing their programs cut. that's what the so-called sequester means, it may not have impacted a lot of folks, but some are being -- eliminating actual waste and programs we don't need anymore. so building new roads and bridges, educating our children from the youngest age, helping more families afford college. making sure ...

How are you going to counter that? >> well, first of all, this is the president's idea. he actually came up with this. this is something that he suggested. his office suggested when they were talking about this back in the summer of 2011. number two is certain there is certainly going to be impacts to governmental services. what is going to be put out there is exaggerated for political purposes. this idea of making the cuss as painful as possible. focusing on programs that most impact people as a way to create outvague a time tested tactic that's used all the time at the state level when peopl...

>> that mines you can't vote until you get the majority of your own party. we heard some harsh words from speaker boehner and nancy pelosi this morning. let's hear what they had to say on the latest. >> i don't think the president's focused on trying to find a solution to the sequester. for 16 months the president has been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of sitting down with senate leaders in order to try to forge an agreement over there in order to move the bill. we have moved the bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets of...