apart. >>brian: like the mayans. >>steve: the white house is caught in a couple of lies. arne duncan, secretary of education, on face the nation on sunday said pink slips are coming out. >>brian: 40,000. where? >>steve: a place in west virginia. there are pink slips coming out but it has to do with state law and is unrelated. yesterday duncan doubled down and said a lot of poor kids and a lot of challenged kids are going to wind up with less care. as it turns out, the funding for those programs are forward funded. in other words, all that stuff actually would happen next year. so the white house has been caught in some lies because they have really over the last couple of weeks scared the living daylights out of people. listen to this. >> into few days congress might allow a series of immediate painful arbitrary budget cuts to take place.