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Ceiling through before there s a problem? how many days? i don t know. maybe ten days. so in ten days want to change the united states constitution by two-thirds vote in both houses? that s what you re demanding? if possible, we can t change the constitution just in congress, but can submit it to the states. two-thirds vote, and you think you re being reasonable saying you want a two-thirds vote in the house which is democrat, republican and the senate which is democrat. you want the democratic senator by two-thirds vote to pass a constitutional amendment or you want the house to come down? yes, that s exactly what i m saying and saying it six months since the day i was sworn in. you can call it everything you want. what you can t call that, a compromise. okay. that s great to know, but, look, the bottom line is, we have to change the way, fundamentally and permanently in a binding fashion the way washington spends money. okay. there is no way we can afford this. i ....
We have 23 democrats in the senate who have said repeatedly that they support a balanced budget amendment. we don t yet have consensus on who supports which plan, that s why we need debate and discussion. i ve been talking about 2 six months and filed in bill in type for discussion, shut down by the democrats in the senate. let me ask an ideological question. the one out on the table, 20% of gdp spending cap basically reaching at some point 20% and then in two-thirds requirement on revenue increase. do you like that idea? is that your proposal? yes i do. i ve proposed it and if you do it that way, right now, a 15 s 15ds trillion gdp. right now spendings 3ds.75. that reduces it to 3.0. would that reduction in fudi1 spending at this point now, if this thing of yours, this mechanism in effect now would be good for the economy is? a cut of kmol spending, $750 billion, would that be good right now? no, chris, if you read our legislation you would know that this is not what it wou ....
We want to secede from that society. and the way to do it is to draw the line on spending and taxes, staff the federal government so it loses power, so that we aren t part of the social compact anymore. that s the real argument that s going on, and the congress is an institution, as an institution,% is incapable of deal wig that kind of fundamental argument, gefren the entitlement age and welfare state age, why you have the super committees and super duper committees and the smaller and smaller ring of people attempting to decide something. this sounds like i spent two years in southern africa. sounds like what the whites talked about doing. eventually going into some circle, like custard s last stand against the united states i. wouldn t put a racial tone ton but i would say the congress is not deal wig the fundamental question here. they refuse to do it. and they re not deal wig it now, because both because both bills, both plans, both the boehner plan and the reid plan don t d ....
Month sense of common fear factor, is there? i think you re absolutely right. the closest we got was the european union. withç multiculturelism, we saw angela merck el say, look, multiculturalism failed. we invited these people in and now we have to keep them. this is present throughout europe. the percentages over the next decade will show countries previously homoganous. belgium and sweden, hitting 10% muslim populations. here, it is only about 2 to 3%. by the way, i m not advocating islamaphobia but what i m saying is here we look at it more in the question of national security. i m talking about people quick question. we only have a minute, brian. i have to ask a quick question. whose fault? will the danish, swedes, ....
One is basically the same old same old republican plan. now a two-step plan. get to it in a minute. boehner s a watered down version what they sort of agree on without any tax increases of any kind. the democrats are on their knees to try to make a deal here. they re getting closer and closer, genuflecting the republican side. no taxes, spending cuts only. the way the republicans wanted. why not a deal? well, the republicans don t want a deal. they d rather have the fight than the deal and the president is in the posture and he s going to be in it tonight at 9:00 of trying to say, look. they won t even accept the deal on their terms. he s genuflecting. genuflecting to try to make a political point. which is that the republicans are only in it to make him look bad. to create chaos in the market.ç to undercut the economy. you really believe that they know the danger we re facing on the world market? that the republicans do? yeah. they know no. they don t necessarily bel ....