government? is that what you re saying you want to do? i don t think we ve ever had a politician run for the presidency who stood up and said, i m going to cut one penny out of every dollar. a real cut. and then maybe something you don t get from government, but that one penny out of a dollar will cause us to balance the budget within five years. one penny across the board but you want to also spend $190 billion more on defense. so you have do have flexibility. a couple of ways to have flexibility. one, if you raise defense spending i would cut domestic spending, the exact same amount. that separates some conservatives in this race. there are conservatives several who are running or may run who say, oh increase defense at all costs. i will increase defense spending but only if you pay for it by cutting other stuff. if you cut a penny across the board, does that mean you cut medicare social security? in other words, in real 2015 dollars, next year, it s going to be a penny less
hut, the woman who owns this store or that store. those people will create jobs. it doesn t work to send it to washington and then send it back. if you try as a senator to reduce even the rate of increase, baseline budgeting, you and i have talked at length about the penny plan, for example. you cut one penny out of every dollar every year for six years, democrats will have an image of rand paul throwing granny over the cliff. do you think the american people are ready to actually in real dollars limit spending in government? is that what you re saying you want to do? i don t think we ve ever had a politician run for the presidency who stood up and said, i m going to cut one penny out of every dollar. a real cut. and then maybe something you don t get from government, but that one penny out of a dollar will cause us to balance the budget within five years. one penny across the board but you want to also spend $190 billion more on so you have do have flexibility. a couple of way
if you look at his amendments steve, it would actually increase defense spending by $190 billion. rand paul will say that he s not an isolationist. what he actually supports is a less aggressive united states presence in the world but having a robust deffs. we mide toneed to find a way to pay it. what would offset that increase throughout various accounts of the federal government. folks like marco rubio says if you do that it will be much harder to increase defense spending. finding spending cuts is very difficult to agree upon. the one thing that congress should agree upon in his view, is hire defense budget. that is a key debate that will play out and will actually test whether or not voters believe that either of them could be commander in chief in 2017. did one of them neither of the amendments passed. in terms of they re both basically presidential
defense cuts, an end to foreign aid and a smaller military presence overseas. hawks called him an isolationist and he withdrew his opposition to all foreign aid and proposed increasing defense spending by $190 billion. florida senator marco rubio plans to join the race in early april. he used 25 budget amendments to bolster his image. among other things he proposed curbs on abortion preventing obamacare from raiding medicare and armying ukraine against russian aggression. wisconsin governor scott walker is clarifying his views on immigration. he opposes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants unless they go home first and get in line. the undocumented who stay could qualify for some legal status, but not citizenship provided by they pay fines and penalties. two years ago walker backed what critics call amnesty. they need to fix things for people who are here, find some way to deal with that. some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. to me, i don t know
wherever you fall on the issue of surveillance, one thing is clear. global populations are growing and so is the need for drinkable water. in water starved san diego, they re betting big on a billion-dollar solution. where the largest and most advanced desalination plants in the world. with california experiencing one of the worst droughts in the state s history, access to fresh water has never been more important or more difficult. here in southern california, the largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere is being constructed. it will soon take water from the ocean and create 50 million gallons of fresh water a day. california is in a serious drought right now. any new water supplies are important to the region. we have a $190 billion economy in this region that is dependent on water. the question you need to consider is what is the cost of not having enough water?