because of the president and the democrats in the senate have refused to show us what their plan would be. you were elected in the last midterm you come from a business background. you are a business pan by profession. i ve talked to you you are a businessman by profession. i ve talked to you about in before. were you surprised in how such disarray things were when you got to washington. now you are watching this thing go down, put yourself in our old shoes for a moment. what do you think about it now? i m accountant by background. i ve produced budgets on time. i ve had people produce them for me on time. to think that a couple folks, a few individuals would actually be able to come up with a budget in a couple weeks, behind closed doors, to fund the federal government, 3.7 trillion dollar a year enter price is absurd. but unfortunately, enterprise is absurd.
the reason he said he left the meeting was because he was tired of the president insisting on raising the taxes beyond what they had agreed to in the revenue increases and also, the deal with 3.7 trillion dollar in cuts. included entitlement cuts, you re talking about the medicare age and raising that from 67 to 65 and defense cuts in there and might have been the best deal we were going to get and now back to square one. if you just raised the debt ceiling without the cuts, boy, everyone will get hurt in the process. how will it end? tweet us at ff weekend. coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson, juliet will talk with him about where this thing goes from here. we know republicans wanted this cut, cap and balance bill approved, but tabled that thing in the senate and will not even debate it. where in the world do we go from here. i also want to ask him about the job gains in wisconsin. they had half the job gains. last month. we were talking earlier
? you feel it should be opened up and translucent this whole process. absolutely, this is crazy to think you can negotiate 3.7 trillion dollar a year budget. another way of putting that is 3.7 million, million dollars, that s how large the government is and you re going to have a couple of individuals negotiating for a couple of weeks and trying to decide the future fate of america? that s absurd, crazy. juliet: let s talk about your state and what it s doing right. based on total employment wisconsin created more than half of total jobs, explain. it s amazing what happens when you create an attractive environment for business and job creation. we want you to locate in our state or want you to locate in our country and it s also amazing when politicians actually, or elected officials actually do what they said they were going to do when they ran for election. they actually step up to the plate and have the political
because of the president and the democrats in the senate have refused to show us what their plan would be. you were elected in the last midterm you come from a business background. you are a business pan by profession. i ve talked to you you are a businessman by profession. i ve talked to you about in before. were you surprised in how such disarray things were when you got to washington. now you are watching this thing go down, put yourself in our old shoes for a moment. what do you think about it now? i m accountant by background. i ve produced budgets on time. i ve had people produce them for me on time. to think that a couple folks, a few individuals would actually be able to come up with a budget in a couple weeks, behind closed doors, to fund the federal government, 3.7 trillion dollar a year enter price is absurd. but unfortunately,
and they immediately went into the finger pointing and blame. the reason he said he left the meeting was because he was tired of the president insisting on raising the taxes beyond what they had agreed to in the revenue increases and also, the deal with 3.7 trillion dollar in cuts. included entitlement cuts, you re talking about the medicare age and raising that from 67 to 65 and defense cuts in there and might have been the best deal we were going to get and now back to square one. if you just raised the debt ceiling without the cuts, boy, everyone will get hurt in the process. how will it end? tweet us at ff weekend. coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson, juliet will talk with him about where this thing goes from here. we know republicans wanted this cut, cap and balance bill approved, but tabled that thing in the senate and will not even debate it. where in the world do we go from here. i also want to ask him about the job gains in