that s been proven wrong. where you have low inflation and historically low interest rates. right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield.
michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks ofor being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield. we need good jobs now. pay your tax. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view
right now our problem is jobs, and there is no question cutting that sort of spending is going to hurt jobs. michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield. we need good jobs now. pay your tax. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view and katrina vanden heuvel,
becoming the fibber in chief in this election. you know, he was the decisive vote on whether or not that simpson/bowles proposal would go for an up or down vote. every member of the commission was in a tight spot but you had people like senator durbin of very respected liberal, and who voted for it. to have congress vote. and you had you had senator coburn, very conservative republican, voting for it. he didn t like a lot of things in it. but it was the one chance that con would have had to be put on the spot to vote yes or no on the debt. ryan s vote made the difference and he killed it. now he is running for vice president and in addition to running some three-hour marathons, he s also rewriting history about how the bowles/simpson plan was not brought before congress. also, sir, you mentioned his magical three-hour marathon, there s also his idea that without any new revenues on the table, you just cut spending and
the regime. human rights activists say at least 2,000 people have been killed in the regime s brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past several months. as the crackdown has played out, the administration has gone from urging assad to stop the violence and implement reforms himself to of late saying the dictator has lost legitimacy, but until now the administration has stopped short from demanding he yield power. here s how the u.s. ambassador to the united nations described assad s behavior right here on this program last week as she promised to push for more aggressive international response it s horrific. it s appalling. he s massacring his own people who are coming out simply to express themselves peacefully. it s absolutely unacceptable, appalling behavior, and it deserves not only the condemnation but the full force of the international community. and today at the state department, this public hint, u.s. patience with assad had run out if you