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Administration would they be so silent. robert greenwald, joan walsh and lawrence korb, thanks for the conversation tonight. up next, less than four weeks until sequestration cuts into effect, goes right into effect. could we be looking at another recession? we just might be if john boehner gets his way. stay tuned.
No, we are not. >> even if it's from tax reform? >> if you keep raising revenues, you're not going to get different tax reform. i know you didn't want a chart, but i'm kind of a chart guy. this dream line shows you the historic taxes. the red line is tax increases. the red line, where spending is going. spending is the problem. revenues aren't the problem. if you keep chasing higher spending with higher revenues as they're calling for, you're going to hurt economic growth. you'll never catch up. you'll shut down the economy and you won't get the budget down. >> when you were campaigning in vir...
Tweet them to us at fox friends first or e-mail to us at foxfriendsfirst@foxnews.com. 12 after the hour. even if the defense department vieds the automatic sequestration cuts in march some say the military could receive cuts. jennifer griffin explains why. a long time teacher is fired for give ago student exactly what he wanted a copy of the bible. a look at the gas prices. the national average 3.31 cents. that's unchanged from yesterday.
Government spending. half of that, $600 billion for defense. a grossly disproportional amount for defense but there it is. >> neil: over ten years. >> the problem with it is they are across-the-board cuts. they don't distinguish between good programs and bad programs, hardware and people. just an across-the-board cut and what you have seen is a lot of republicans who are justly opposed to that kind of cutting essentially posing all pentagon cutting and what i was saying in the piece today is that just because the sequestration cuts are bad doesn't mean that the defense budget is sacrosanct. it...
Have an agenda in terms of spending money? >> yeah. >> the president leaves that out in every speech. >> say that again? >> he has what in every speech. >> which means we have to have major spending cuts. >> i'd like to put to rest that sequestration is going to bring december states cuts. it won't. were you look at projections with the impact of sequestration cuts on the growth of government spending, basically, it's a cut, with the exception of the first, it's a cut and even that is very minor. the cut to the growth of spending. these are not devastating cuts. and it's also nothing that will...