they address their interests. certainly every republican candidate will have to deal with egypt and the new democracies and what have you. several candidates who weren t out there. those basically trying to deal with the issues that matter to that audience which pretty much were the fiscal stuff. there s really no true libertarians running for president that i know of, other than paul. cpac has always been a very, very determined group. james? this is the largest gathering of conservatives in the united states, and the fact that have you this and it s almost like what s going on in the world doesn t happen, you know, it says something. yeah. it was interesting. you could also miss what was happening. glad i m not one of them, can i tell you that. i promise you are not one of them. let me turn to a topic that was rather i know it ia. a topic that was relevant to all those activists and to so many of our viewers is the budget and the deficit. the president came out w
me ask you one last time, be the first to the table, be the first to have this adult conversation if the white house doesn t? again, we ve already had it. the only plans that are on the table have been presented by republicans, and they ve been eviscerated by democrats. i ll take that as a yes. we ve already done it. we ll see what comes in your 2012 budget proposal. thanks for joining us. thank you. a political cartoon mocking first lady michelle obama. who s behind it? does it go too far? plus the president speaks candidly about the downside of his job. hostcould switching to geico really save you
enacted, are so important and it s important that it be implemented. i think in this budget there s a very important provision, which i should take a minute to explain. you know, for years congress and successive administrations have been adding to the deficit by just suspending a provision in law that would cut what we pay doctors under medicare by 30%. there s a bipartisan agreement that that wouldn t be a good idea. in the past we just put it on the national credit card. what this budget says we should pay for. it put $62 billion of real proposals out there to pay for it for the next two years. circumstances our credit card is going so heavily into the red and what you re talking about, that one proposal is just a fraction of a fraction of what we owe, so if you re acknowledging that we do need at some point to talk about social security, medicare, medicaid, is this slightly a political move, this budget? isn t it really politics saying we re going we re going to touch non-dis
i think this budget is the first comprehensive approach put out there with $1.1 trillion of deficit retrucks, two-thirds of it on the spending side, one-third on the revenue side. we have proposals in domestic discretionary and proposals in defense. we have proposals on these entitlements, and we have proposals on the tax side. we bring the deficit down frankly to meet the target that the deficit commission asked us to meet so weave accomplished it with a plan that we think is a sound, responsible balanced plan. we know that it won t be a plan that all agree, and there will be questions asked. we challenge others to put their plans on the table, and we also offer to work together on a bipartisan basis to see where can we agree and where can we agree in the short term because these problems should be dealt with now, not five years from now. the republicans do have a plan out now for this existing year. we re already into this fiscal year 2011. the republicans have proposed splashing $
it is time to get real about the new obama budget blueprint and the failure by either party to make the tough et choices to cut spending. the white house brags that its new 2012 budget would shrink deficits every year over the next ten years reducing them by over $1.4 trillion but under the president s plan the federal government would still spend money dreads of billions of dollars more than it takes in every year over that ten-year period, and the country would sink trillions of dollars deeper into the red, so we keep piling on to the total amount we owe to other countries. that s over $14 trillion on the national debt clock right now. well, here s why the president s plan barely makes a dent in the debt t.only takes a whack at about 16% of the federal budget. it doesn t touch the biggest ticket items. that includes most defense and mandatory spending programs.