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>> that is almost half a billion we spend each year just on interest payments. boy, that can go a long way to solving a lot of problems we have. it's just wasteful. >> chuck, is it a spending problem or are we having a tax problem, a revenue problem? >> i think still it's the combination of both. i think the problem overall is people don't understand billions and trillions. i do politics for a living. i give people electives for a living. i think the biggest thing, if you are where i am right now rnlth ask them what a trillion dollars is, they will wonder if that's how much they should be putt...

Byron, as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> well, they may not have creepy clowns or choreographed dances, well at least not that we know yet. but the environmental protection agency has a spending problem, and everytime they swipe, you pay. ellis -- ellison, what did they discover? >> the report looked at the epa and looked at their use of purchase cards, which is the main government tab for what is a company credit card. they found -- this -- ineffective oversight of purchase cards resulted in inappropriate purchases. they sampled over $150,000 worth of transactions and they found thought ...

Confirm the conservative ethos in the community. >> and both chambers of commerce approved a increase to the nation's debt limit without curving spending. this is what house speaker boehner had to say about it. >> it is a lost opportunity for america. we are on a spending trajectory that is unsustainable. the president knows and every republican and democrat in this town knows it and it has to be dealt with and it is a desappointing moment. >> it was a disappointing moment. raising the debt seouling. and david web you are a tea party guy. how frustrated were you and was this a real failure? >>...

The federal government as a whole all to blame for this. republicans and democrats and otherwise for the spending problem. with that said, i so a point of strategy in this and the point of strategy which is the bitter pill to swallow and we have no choice. republicans need to buy no more bullets for the democrats going in 2014. and we'll have no chance of stopping obama for two more years if we don't win or take more seats in the house and don't win the senate and able to override the president. there are democrats that will vote with us on some issues. i understand the strategy point that cou...

The federal government as a whole all to blame for this. republicans and democrats and otherwise for the spending problem. with that said, i so a point of strategy in this and the point of strategy which is the bitter pill to swallow and we have no choice. republicans need to buy no more bullets for the democrats going in 2014. and we'll have no chance of stopping obama for two more years if we don't win or take more seats in the house and don't win the senate and able to override the president. there are democrats that will vote with us on some issues. i understand the strategy point that cou...