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Between sick children and disabled children. no one wants to pick between them. if you don't want hard choices, don't get involved in politics. he's known this was coming for two years, two years he could have-- >> it's actually his idea, so-- >> and he signed it into law and he's acting like it's the first he's heard of it. >> greta: i don't want to hurt starving children on disabled children or anyone to lose a job, however, the american people were asked to give you 2% in additional taxes recently so it's sort of hard for at least for me to understand why the federal government, those who r...

Book about it, but nobody stop its. i mean, what is it going to take for someone to stop the waste? >> it takes a budget. to pass a budget, have you to have a prolonged debate and discussion and dialogue -- >> do you really need a budget? the defense department can't say, we overpaid this defense contractor, maybe that's a waste? >> there are always ways to find waste that don't entail prioritization. but it's hard to force government to prioritizing. >> do you need a budget to figure out that you shouldn't pay for something twice? >> in theory, no. but if you force people to economize in how ...

Billing, whatever it is because of the urgency problems. it's more urgency with the pentagon. >> the irony is that the contractors are sort of buffered against this because of their contracts. you can't just go in and say, cut a program and get that money back in eight months. if you're going to do it, you have to cut people. and here is the sad thing. >> greta: but the deal, it's a contract. >> a contract. exactly, but the contract with the soldiers is, if i have to cut 24,000 enlisted men and 7,000 officers in the next eight months to a year, that's an easy payback to the budget. it's not so...

Between sick children and disabled children. no one wants to do that. but if you don't want to make hard choice, don't get involved in politics. he has known this was coming for two years. >> two years. >> it's his idea. >> it's his idea. he signed it into law! he's acting like it's the first he's heard of it. >> look, i don't want to hurt starving children, disabled children. i don't want anybody to lose a job. but the american people were asked to give up 2% in additional taxes recently. so it's hard for at least for me to understand why the federal government, those who representative the g...

>> they can't take it-- >> they can't. what that means the army loses the things they need most, people and training. because the thing in the army called erosion curve and when a soldier comes back from combat, his skills in combat erode quickly so you have to put him back in the training business so he maintains those skills. if he doesn't train and you know, 12 million cut in army training funds. 60% of the army's training budget is gone and within a year, the erosion for those units is in fact catastrophic and if we have to go to war again in a year or two, those soldiers won't be ready an...