Host spencer are you there . Caller hello . Host you are on the air. Go ahead, what is your comment on this . Caller on what . Host we are talking spending cuts and tax increases. Caller what about the income tax in this country . The 14th, 15th, and 16th amendment talks of this. The income tax is clearly illegal. There is no law whatsoever to state that we are supposed to pay this. All of these taxes are clearly taxation without representation. This is where we came from. Where are we going . We are going nowhere. Host denise, democratic caller. Go ahead. Caller im a little nervous. I think it should be both. We should look at tax loopholes and also we are talking about welfare and medicare and medicaid and social security. I think we should look at the subsidies of the companies. I think we stop subsidizing the Oil Companies, if i am correct, that is billions of dollars we are giving them. If we stop subsidizing the Oil Companies then we will be able to handle the taxes. We will leav
And there is good reason to believe it will continue. My duty tonight is to report on the state of the union. The not of the state of the government but of our american community. Therefore, set forth responsibilities to form a more perfect union. The state of the union is strong. As we gather tonight, our nation is at war. Our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented danger is. Yet the state of our union has never been stronger. It is because of our people that our future is helpful hopeful. And the state of our union is strong. President obama delivers this years address with the Preview Program at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Tuesday night on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. President obama awarded the medal of honor to Clinton Romesha. This is half an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Michelle obama, accompanied by medal of honor recipients staff sgt Clinton Romesha. [hail to the chief] lets pray. Eternal god, from whom we
This will basically follow the health of the cluster and particularly with small and mediumsized firms, what are they doing to essentially help lee is relatively small firms . Help these small firms. . . John, said a funny thing. You said no matter how much the government screws up, caltech will still be caltech and m. I. T. Will still be m. I. T. Outside the beltway, it is a different reality and you talked about public and private partnerships at the local level. Can you talk about why they are so important and maybe share your story about how you see the power partnerships . I did not mind it versus the real world. I spend most of my time with the companys seen what kind of problems theyre having in what theyre struggling with. Its true. In the same way that jeff immelt was not worried about only g e come up but there are a lot of companies out there that you do have to worry about. Im not worried were going to get left behind in terms of did creating all of these. We have the smart
Lifeline, what does that say to you . Guest that is the difficulty. How they get fuel and structure, to the local police. A lot of these local units are in small villages and difficult to get to. They may be in trouble and they and maybe because theyre out this is the firstrefus indication of problems. Caller i am calling for mississippi. [indiscernible] i do not want them over there. I cannot understand why what they need to do there. Just think what that were due to our borders for education of our children. It does not seem fair and all that we have to go over there and you soldiers for this purpose. Guest that is the decision that the policymakers will have to make. Why were there or how long we stay, are decisions above my pay grade. I do not avoided but my job is to look that now that were there, are we spending the money well . The policy decision is for congress and the Senior Executive branch. Host sounds like our tax dollars will be going to afghans for decades. Guest the twe
Bullets. They sound like props in a cold war era spy movie. But theyre part of a real assassination plot. We have details. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were just 36 days away from the painful acrosstheboard spending cuts and tax increases people here in washington are calling the fiscal cliff. Today, we have new proof that people across the country not only are aware of whats going on, theyre very, very worried. Our new poll shows 68 say the country will face either a crisis or major problems if the cuts in taxes arent avoided. And a whopping 77 say their personal financial situation will be affected by a failure to solve the fiscal cliff problem. Despite this nationwide sense of urgency, theres only a little talk of compromise right now as lawmakers return to washington. Our congressional correspondent, kate bolduan, has been working her sources on capitol hill and whats going on. Stakes are enormous right now. Whats going on . They were away for a week. Staff was sup