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Instructive, maybe it would be a good idea to cut everybody across the board? whether in washington, take a number, 10%, picking a choosing is what pits everybody against everybody everyone has a special program. >> there's a point to that. some have seen huge spending increases. in wisconsin across the board the public employs have not been contributing anything to pension or health care. everybody else in wisconsin is doing that. across the board isn't that fair. here in washington, we are looking at government spending programs that double and triple digit spending increases, some programs ...

Are protests sort of an instructive, maybe it would be a good idea to cut everybody across the board? whether in washington, take a number, 10%, picking a choosing is what pits everybody against everybody everyone has a special program. >> there's a point to that. some have seen huge spending increases. in wisconsin across the board the public employs have not been contributing anything to pension or health care. everybody else in wisconsin is doing that. across the board isn't that fair. here in washington, we are looking at government spending programs that double and triple digit spending i...

Inat least, 53% in favor in 2009, 40% only in favor of doing that now. and then defense, take a look at where americans stood on that issue, 40% wanted to increase it in 2009, 31% now. finally unemployment aid, there you see increase in favor of it, 44% in 2009, only 27% in favor of it in 2011. so, mr. dougherty, what do you think of all those figures? >> well, i think there is a change in the public's views of federal spending. there's no doubt about that. since 2009 quite a significant change. but most of the change is? less support for spending increases. only in a few cases do we see a rea...

41%. and, by the way, obama has even wider advantages over sarah palin, newt gingrich and jeb bush and it is too early, though, to see where the numbers will go. >> early but everybody is watching. thank you very much and for fill disclosure now, mike huckabee, newt gingrich, sarah palin and rick santorum are paid fox news contributors. . and it is all badge you can ta in washington, the president giving a preview of his spending plan for 2012 in his weekly address saying he's calling for difficult cuts, to allow necessary spending increases. >> president barack obama: i'm posing we invest in ...

Successes now, i sid this in the state of the union, congress has started to move the legislation and then you fight over what's moving. then you have a consistent theme and some controversy, which deepz it alive. a little harder for him now because he has to position against republicans. that's what you can expect now. >> if you were inside the white house, what would you say this president needed to do to pick up a small to moderate win, to keep the momentum going. >> i'd try to pick a fight over what he calls investments, i might make it education and call on republicans they have continue ...