23 million jobs created in millions moved out of poverty and the narrowing of the income inequality cap and the first legit surpluses in generations. How did it happen . How did the 1993 legit to that reduce the deficit get done . For the 1997 budget deal that balanced the budget unsecured historic surpluses westmark how to the earned income tax credit and the Childs Program that helps the poor and the working class families and pulled will millions into the middle class get done . Jean spurling and erskine roles are the Perfect People to answer these questions. Erskine bowles is to my left and joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as the administrator of the Small Business administration and then moved to the white house as deputy chief of staff in 1994 and then chief of staff at the start of the Clinton Administration in 1997 until october, 1998. To keep them honest, and to add context to their consequential work is the associate professor of Political Science at the United State
full employment for the win. compare ryan s numbers, tooinal sis by the nonpartisan congressional budget office where unemployment never falls below 5%. heritage foundation revived the findings upward today but still not in line with the cbo numbers. how about the authors of the ryan budget. the congressman told msnbc he had bipartisan support for his plans for medicare and medicaid. alice rifkin and i she s a proud democrat of the brookings institution. and so these entitlement reforms are based off of those models that she and i works on together. not so fast says alice rivlin. she says the program was too much for her. as a fee for service program was too much for her. that s a reason for me saying very strongly that i don t support the version of medicare
now wondering what were we smoking? it s likely their hallucinations were due to the fact that the large portions of ryan s budget, the foundation upon which he has laid his self-proclaimed footh prosperity were a complete fantasy. for instance, his wild claims on unemployment. according to analysis by the heritage foundation, his budget would prompt job loss to plunge immediately by 2021, unemployment would be at a ut utopian preposterous, historically unprecedented 2.8%. full employment for the win. compare ryan s numbers, tooinal sis by the nonpartisan congressional budget office where unemployment never falls below 5%. heritage foundation revived the findings upward today but still not in line with the cbo numbers. how about the authors of the ryan budget. the congressman told msnbc he had bipartisan support for his plans for medicare and medicaid. alice rifkin and i she s a
democrats and their own base, they are perfectly willing to shut the government down but, b, avoid a government shutdown, then republicans may have run straight into part b of that plan. the president and vice president began their meet with speaker boehner and senate majority leader reid less than an hour ago. speaker boehner said high level meetings with the president had been unproductive and reid and boehner realized they d have to do it themselves. according to that, according to congressman michael rogers of alabama. publicly speaker boehner is decrying the president s leadership while insisting that republicans do not want a shutdown. the president isn t leading. he didn t lead on last year s budget. and he clearly is not leading on this year s budget. republicans have no interest in shutting down the government. shutting down the government, i think, is irresponsible and i think it will end up costing the american taxpayers more money than we re already spending.
shutdown. the president isn t leading. he didn t lead on last year s budget. and he clearly is not leading on this year s budget. republicans have no interest in shutting down the government. shutting down the government, i think, is irresponsible and i think it will end up costing the american taxpayers more money than we re already spending. but now democrats, after already ceding rhetorical and actual ground to republicans on how much might be cut for the rest of this year, may finally have the upper hand in the dwindling hours. speaker boehner has told his caucus this. according to republican lawmakers who attended a 90-minute meeting last night. the democrats think they benefit from a shutdown. i agree. and a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll may back up that conclusion. a plurality of respondents believe that congressional republicans would be most to blame for a government shutdown. the full picture is a bit more complicated because 40% believe it would eithe