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We need to actually talk about it. like we talk about other illnesses and epidemics and threats to our nation's security. i love what this school is doing. they have a walk-a-thon they're planning with the parents. and they're dealing with the fact i mentioned earlier. the highest obesity rate in the city. and they're addressing it on a wholistic level. dr. sachs, it is a threat to our civilization, at least to our society in america. >> and not just healthwise, but financially. the cost to the united states government in medicare, medicaid payments, diabetes is one of the great drains on our ...

Pie-in-the-sky number. we have done it before. with the right policies, we can do it again. >> governor, question: since the united states began america gdp, basically, the growth of the economy in 1929, when have we ever had 10 consecutive years of 5% growth as you project in your plan? >> well, this is an aspiration, it's a big goal and a stretch goal. by the way, i have a plan. barack obama doesn't have an economic plan. he has a campaign plan. you can't find him on what he has to say on social security or medicare or medicaid. he has run out of ideas and the ideas he does have on growing t...

Don't bet your lunch monoit. he refuses to say which programs may be cut and other lawmakers have been out all over the place lately saying what they want off the table. no added tax, no cuts to social security and not allowing the tax cuts for low and middle income families to expire. all this as the president's 18-member bipartisan debt commission gets to work. the commission is meant to bring the budget down to 3% of this country's gdp by 2015. right now it's on track to be double that, 6%. ben bernanke warns if we don't do something about the deficits, will do damage to the economy. he sai...

These, doesn't seem to me it's a point of political risk at this juncture. >> the big story was underreported because it got in the way of healthcare. which liberals were pushing, especially liberals in the media. it doesn't only add a new entitlement, but it takes $1 trillion of what otherwise would be deficit reduction. half a trillion in medicare and half a trillion in increase in taxes. instead of applying it and reducing the debt, it applies it to a new entitlement, so it's now unavailable to make the debt worse. >> bret: next up, the attorney general says he still does not know where he ...

Who benefitted from all of these, doesn't seem to me it's a point of political risk at this juncture. >> the big story was underreported because it got in the way of healthcare. which liberals were pushing, especially liberals in the media. it doesn't only add a new entitlement, but it takes $1 trillion of what otherwise would be deficit reduction. half a trillion in medicare and half a trillion in increase in taxes. instead of applying it and reducing the debt, it applies it to a new entitlement, so it's now unavailable to make the debt worse. >> bret: next up, the attorney general says he st...