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Up and stop what seems to be an illogical spending binge. >> chris: liz's remarks about this being a national security threat might sound inflammatory, but mullen got up this week and said he thought the biggest threat to our national security was debt. >> without a doubt because we have a large defense budget and how are you going to pay for all the wars, the never ending wars if you don't have the money? i'm surprised to hear liz and bill crystal say, europe is a model now for, you know, smart economic behavior. they're in worst trouble than we're in. so they should be use steer and they hav...

Last president. >> it's not a partisan issue. >> it's not a partisan issue, so stop picking on obama about it. >> stop spending. >> you can't stop spending right now. when you look at the rate of growth that this economy has, you say you know what, this is pretty shallow for a recovery. for us to risk at this moment that recovery because we start pointing at people getting nervous nelllys, why would you care about some family -- >> chris: wait, wait. our audience hates it when everybody talks at once. >> let me finish my point. >> chris: no. let mara go. >> look, stopping extension of unemploy...

>> are you kidding me? >> that's a fallacy. stop spending. stop pelosi's plane for god sake. begin with that. >> the entire discretionary non-defense budget is $400 billion. >> of course! >> you can cut it. you cut taxes, and you actually collect more revenue. >> let me finish, please. cut all of non-defense discretionary spending this year, all of it, and it wouldn't cut the deficit in half. you have to cut entitlement, make structural changes and raise taxes. >> well, let me give you a basic primary in thieves. the guys in washington, d.c. will not rein in spending. you have to say stop and ...

Spain or ireland or italy in a year or two and then blow up and what happens, we have to pay the piper. >> brenda: you say that's-- >> let me say that's right and if we put our dukes down for a minute. this is a question of timing. this is a question of timing. we can all agree, as all economists on both sides of the aisle did early in 2009, necessary, now, the question is-- >>. >> brenda: wait a minute, no, no, hold on a minute. many don't believe of the notion that spending gets you out of a recession. >> and they're in the trash heap of history because in 2009, the american enterprise insti...

Programs. now you have a majority of the country in a very outraged minority which is antigovernment. in other words, downsize government, stop spending, deficit's out of control. it's a natural tide against -- >> the pew poll shows there's more distrust of the federal government than ever better. >> this is a party of go government. >> if you're grandbranded as paf government, that's a huge challenge. >> outside the beltway, as i talk to people, what's their critique of washington? i think the critique is gridlock, special block action. i think that's the critique. so action and turning the e...