Page 5 - Spending Restraints News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Road. the real question is are we going to have a big deal? are we going to agree on the major spending restraints that we need as well as the tax stuff in order to actually get the deficit under control? and i think the betting on that is less than 50%. i think we have a great shot at it. but it's going to be really, really hard. >> is that the view from wall street, too? they're not totally confident that this is going to happen? >> what you see in the stock market at the moment is that wall street is not totally confident. that's for sure. >> all right. steve, thanks so much. >> pleasure. ...

How frustrated they are with the direction of the country, mostly the bigger government and the lack of spending restraints. so now there are hundreds of thousands of americans in 20 states four that have actually signed petitions at white house.gov asking the president to allow their states to peacefully secede from the union. now, the petitions themselves require 25,000 signatures for consideration, and louisiana and texas are getting very close to that number. certainly, the right to petition your government is guaranteed by the first amendment, and the white house is encouraging free speec...

And now's, i think, a huge opening and i think a very important opportunity to the party. >> okay. so governor, given everything you've just said, how can republicans begin to address at least some of it while leading up to the fiscal cliff and these negotiations? is it possible? >> well, of course, part of our discussion is going to be around what the negotiation -- what the package looks like in the leadup to the fiscal cliff. and i think, you know, there's going to have to be some understanding of tax reform between now and january 20th, about spending restraints. there are all kinds of pro...

Mike bloomberg. one of the things the storm did was to bring climate change to the fore. to that extent, if republicans got hurt because of the storm, because of the abysmal stupid of the position denying climate change. the storm did remind people how wrong they were. i think this question. the senate i hope and president will come up with a balanced plan, substantial cuts in the military. that's one we won. romney tried to make that an issue. for the first time a president campaigned on less military spending in my memory or lifetime and successful. >> won virginia. a military state. >> seco...

Was to bring climate change to the fore. to that extent, if republicans got hurt because of the storm, because of the abysmal stupid of the position denying climate change. the storm did remind people how wrong they were. i think this question. the senate i hope and president will come up with a balanced plan, substantial cuts in the military. that's one we won. romney tried to make that an issue. for the first time a president campaigned on less military spending in my memory or lifetime and successful. >> won virginia. a military state. >> secondly, you get tax increases on the very wealthy,...