wanted independence from france and slave revolt. such an uprising led to the formation of a country. that freedom came with a heavy price. building upon decades of research of historians, new york times investigation published saturday shows after haiti wanted into independence it was forced to pay france a massive ransom and face another war, making haiti quote, the first and only country with the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of the former masters for their generations. they sent billions of dollars to friends over several decades funding the eiffel tower. new york times concludes that if my knee had stayed in haiti, it would ve ended up to 115 billion dollars.
balanced budget without raising taxes and we think it s extremely reasonable to balance our budget. families have to balance their budgets. local governments and businesses have to balance their budgets, we should get the government to restrain the growth of spending in order to balance the budget so we can get the threat off of our economy. these big deficits and debt not only hurts today s economy it destroys it for the next generation and we think it s necessary to do that. greta: somebody s got to get hurt when there s a spending cut. government. greta: government. but theoretically government gives services, entitlements or jobs to people and someone is going to feel the pain. we spend 115 billion dollars each and every year according to the generally accountability office to people who aren t supposed to get the money. greta: and i was going to get to waste and fraud. 49 different job training programs spread across nine different government agencies. government s goi
to. what are your thoughts on that 105 billion dollars that they stuck in there to fund this early? well, the cbo missed that i brief in the february estimate, last february, february of 2009. by april they found it. i think it is 115 billion dollars for discretionary funding. some of that may have been morris is able in the bill than not. this is a one trillion 55 billion dollar bill we can not afford. it was even worse last week when the congressman of springfield got secretary of health and human services sebelius and pinned her in a hearing and saying aren t you double counting? taking medicare savings and applying them simultaneously to the unfunded liability in medicare and spending the same amount on the new health care bill claiming you are reducing the deficit. she said we are not doing that. he said what are you using it
to. what are your thoughts on that 105 billion dollars that they stuck in there to fund this early? well, the cbo missed that i brief in the february estimate, last february, february of 2009. by april they found it. i think it is 115 billion dollars for discretionary funding. some of that may have been morris is able in the bill than not. this is a one trillion 55 billion dollar bill we can not afford. it was even worse last week when the congressman of springfield got secretary of health and human services sebelius and pinned her in a hearing and saying aren t you double counting? taking medicare savings and applying them simultaneously to the unfunded liability in medicare and spending the same amount on the new health care bill claiming you are reducing the deficit. she said we are not doing that. he said what are you using it
nice to see you. great to see you. it want easy to find your office. we only have certain elevators on the 5th floor. because you are a first year member. it is very nice. thank you. greta: some heat over health care. your position on voting for or against the repeal bill? 100% for the repeal. there s a myriad of reasons. first of all, the general public doesn t know the cbo scores are not accurate. the cbo can only score the information they have. it didn t talk about the 115 billion dollars in discretionary funds it costs to implement this health care. it didn t talk about the fact 10 years of taxes for six years of services. it didn t talk about the double counting of medicare. the duct counting of social security. the double counting of social security. when you add that up it is going to be an economy crushing job killing legislation. the last thing some of these small business owners need