out the contracts of his vision and that of republicans. we don t have to choose between a future of spiralling debt and one where we force our investment and our people and our country. to meet our fiscal challenge, we will need to make reforms. we will all need to make sacrifices. but we do not have to sacrifice the america we believe in. and as long as i m president, you don t have to suffer the point. cnn contribute tore cornell belcher. that looks like compromise on all sides. kind of difficult since we re already in a campaign. do we give up leadership for politicking at this point? i don t think we are in a campaign. it s two things. one of the things you talked about early on was the president is asking to pay more for government, some people pay more for government. i think what the president is saying is that we have a responsibility to the broader society, and some people right now aren t paying their fair share and to keep our fiscal house in order, we have to