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American people either. democrats and progressives who want to maintain the big three need to speak up and be active. republicans are baiting president obama into a negotiation on entitlement reform. before he gives them what they want, he should listen to another republican. >> social security has nothing to do with the deficit. social security is totally funded by the payroll tax leveed on employer and employee. if you reduce the outgo of social security, that money would not go into the general fund to reduce the deficit. it would go into the social security trust fund. so social security h...

Fight on capitol hill. democrats and progressives, they know this fight. they did it well in the 2012 campaign. they fought hard during the fiscal cliff fight and won that. clearly. this is basically the start of a new campaign. if you don't stay focused, if we don't stay focused, if we don't make sure that everybody in this country knows exactly what the republicans are up to, who knows where we're going to go. they're after the big three. that's what they want. you can fight for the big three. but you've got to get engaged. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's q...

Since 2001, the middle income tier has shrunk by 5%. the net worth of middle class families is down 28%. hold it right there. think about where have your health care costs gone in the last ten years. gasoline ten years ago was a buck 40 a gallon. where is it now? well over 3. would you like to have a buck 40 a gallon? the economy has changed a lot. whether there had been the bush tax cuts or not, this president would have been on the front lines saying we need to give relief to the middle class, and that's what this was all about. the tax deal was struck with these folks in mind. the 2012 elec...

On spending cuts president obama proposed $1.2 trillion, about equal to what he was asking in revenue. boehner passed draconian spending cuts in the house with no revenue component. on extended unemployment insurance, another check for the president. nada for boehner. on the debt limit president obama proposed a structure similar to what republican leader mitch mcconnell proposed last year. boehner wants to hold the nation's full faith and credit hostage once again to attain even more spending cuts. president obama even threw in an added incentive for republicans, by agreeing to a change in th...

Cuts could be modified in the first month or two of 2013. in fact, the defense department, the irs and other government agencies are planning no immediate changes because they're anticipating some kind of deal. that leaves the unemployed, extended unemployment insurance will expire immediately if we go over the cliff. a deal later in january could theoretically restore extended benefits, the immediate damage will have already been done. for many people, this is all an interesting charade. but for the unemployed it's the real deal. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. tonigh...