unnecessary and a result of this austerity budget. one of the things that i am interested in, talking about giving credit to paul ryan. i want to give credit to president obama. president obama in some ways has defamed the tea party. you are a very strong hero for the tea party movement, you had one weapon, a super weapon, that was the shutdown. and president obama stood his ground, let you guys overshoot on the last shutdown. you can never fire that weapon again. and now have to take what you can get. don t you have to give president obama a little bit of credit for having paid this chess game. it was harry reid. one thing we can t forget is it was president obama and the two folks who announced the deal. i voted against the budget control act that started the sequester. washington said it was the worst thing ever, but they all took credit for it in august of 2011. if it was such a bad deal, why did they agree to it?
whatever the word is with this president? this deal does not help the economy. we need a growing economy. we need less regulations and we haven t even talked about the president s health care plan. you have to roll back on something. i have to say that continuing with this sequester, this austerity budget which it is by any other term is the worst for the economy. it kills job growth. it kills investment. it is the poorest of economics. that s why we re not fully recovered. if congress would get out of the way, i think the economy would have fully recovered. i want to thank both of you for being here. the rest of you, i want to you stay engaged with us. to go facebook or twitter to weigh in on our fire back question. are you happy with the budget deal? right now 40% of you say yes. 60% of you say no. the debate will continue online at cnn.com/crossfire as well as facebook and twitter. from the left.
does it frequently. i give him credit for that. for trying to hammer something out. it may or may not fly. all we hear is the intransgent republicans. i think he deserves credit. this is not ease tee to sell to his own conference. i don t know whether we ll get there. we re going to lose a substantial number of republicans. we re going to lose a substantial number of democrats if we what we hear about the bill is that it doesn t go after any of the special interest tax breaks that democrats would like to see help finance an end to the sequester. democrats don t like the sequester level. we feel this is an austerity budget that is doing damage to the economy. i think if we had an economy, if we had a budget that was making an investment in infrastructure and jobs and we were able to pass the president s jobs bill, our economy would have fully
that they would allow this to just go forward and do a continuing resolution with the sequestration cuts. your thoughts. that s exactly what we re hearing. today we heard it from the minority leadership of the senate and also in the house. they re shrugging their shoulders saying it s okay because it s going to further reduce the size of government. wait a minute. exactly what are you reducing? you re reducing the military defense. you re reducing research for all of the critical things we need in our future from telecommunications, energy, health care. that s what s going to get reduced. it just it s really nonsense and it s terrible, terrible public policy. at some point, well, just take a look. the europeans have recognized that austerity budgets have not led to a better economy in europe. exactly. we re in the third year of an austerity budget and it is not growing the economy. it is shrinking the deficit, but
good-bye. it s early in the administration. he s not going to get back to berlin. this is the prism of good-bye. you will hear it a lot. this is his bookend to the speech as far as germany is concerned and europe. the fact that angelaer merkel talked about surveillance with president obama, he s had this happen to him a couple of times now in the world stage. putin said we disagree on syria. when he was talking about chinese leader it was, hey, you re hacking, too. what do you make of that? i think his relationships with some of the leaders aren t as close as he might have expected them to be. don t forget. he s taking merkel to task on her austerity budget as well. he wishes it weren t so austere. this isn t the first disagreement they have had. she s running for re-election.