structural. he he was bequeathed to him as a result of two wars we can t pay for. president bush s 48% increase in discretionary spending and passage of the medicare prescription drug program, with three tax cuts. what we have is a situation where what we bring in, we spend more than that amount and yes, we need to get out of it. do we need to get out of it right now and possibly, you know, go into another double-dip recession? i think that s a bad idea. mike: i now george bush would get blamed for this. george bush s administration is responsible for spending more money than they took in and kicking the can down the road. i will agree with you on that, i m not going to argue, but 787 billion dollar stimulus package. 10% of our debt. mike: let s keep reminding ourselves when we add in the health care costs which is going to be more than the supposed savings, a lot more, this president inherited let me just say he inherited something, but what he s done with it has made it wors
democrats and spent money and prided themselves for not having raised taxes, but what they actually did was the same thing, which is not balance the budget. we ve got to go to another topic. we ve got a new medicare, medicaid czar he s going to run cms. basically one of the biggest positions in the government. democrat senator max baucus had a problem with the fact that the president made an interim appointment. a recess appointment. therefore, there was no hearing. welcome, sure, i mean, congress lovers to have control of these things and presidents always resisted at both parties, but is it surprising to anyone that the president would pick someone to run medicare and medicaid who supports the president s policies on medicare and medicaid? isn t it the health care is in fact a redistribution of wealth. we have progressive tax. caroline. all of the programs are redistribution of wealth. homeless programs, any federal program that you re talking about where people like you a
jimmy, one of the things that have intrigued me. you guys started out in gospel music and never have left. there are a lot of other people who came along about the same time, but they went into pop or r & b. why did you stay with your gospel roots? well, because we were brought up in a christian environment, all of us were, and at the same time, that sam cook left, we were in the same material at the same time. all of us the same offer they offered him, but we turned it down. mike: now what, i think a lot of us are glad, because in staying true to your roots, you went through a long time of some obscurity and then all of a sudden, there s virtually every artist in the recording industry that wants you to be on their record. this album, duets, just features some amazing music with some of the top names ever, including one of my favorites, susan tadeshi.
f. ooh. pretty much a big fat flag all the way across the report card on that one from doug. all right, who else. ben, speech a. content in speeches d. there s no real content d. mike: one final one. who else. paul from burbank, california i give obama an f. we elected a president not a dyk tatar. mike: ooh. well, i think kaylee, thank you for accumulating some of the e-mails and i hope if we didn t get to read yours we ll know we ll do our best to read through them and obviously we couldn t read all of them that we got, but i thank you very much for responding. one of the things that i think you ll see is that there are a lot of people who recognize that the president does have an incredible gift for communicating. this is what helped him get elected. people wanted to believe that what he was saying, he really believed and that he would do. we re also learning the hard way that sometimes in politics, people can tell you one thing, when they re selling you, but they do someth
running for congress. mike: lannie, what s good and bad about the handling of the president s gulf oil spill. i think he s right in shutting down to take a look at technology and whether people are ready for a spill and with the star s candidacy and respect her life and her career, whether her candidacy would do a lot if she was in favor of opening up a deep oil port right off long beach and there was a huge spill right now and she would have it say, well, i thought it would be okay. i think barack obama deserves a b-minus, he waited too long, i think, in taking initiative and in getting in front of the issue as a good cruces management, i thought he was a little bit slow, but once he got going, i thought he did a very good job to get that 20 billion dollar fund established. pat. i would worry a lot less than the 20 billion dollar fund than i am about stopping the oil. the problem here is that this has been treated like a pr problem. and it s been treated like a