budget hawks have been asking. before you furlough this person, before you cut this grant, why doesn t you look at all of this waste and duplication that s going on in the government? the fact is, the administration had simply not prepared for sequestration, they didn t think it was going to happen. greta: wait a minute, you need to fill it after march 1st, even if he s foolish enough to create the job last summer, a job we probably didn t need, the guy had a job and it s going to be expensive and disable us from doing other things post sequestration, is that you know, he didn t have to do it. he didn t have to fill it on march 7th or 8th? you ll have to ask the president, he did this by himself. greta: is there any suggestion of cronyism or extra pal stuff involved in this at all or just a merit appointment? well, i think the question is, is this position actually needed? the government devotes substantial resources trying to improve minority educational performance. s. that s
budget hawks have been asking. before you furlough this person, before you cut this grant, why doesn t you look at all of this waste and duplication that s going on in the government? the fact is, the administration had simply not prepared for sequestration, they didn t think it was going to happen. greta: wait a minute, you need to fill it after march 1st, even if he s foolish enough to create the job last summer, a job we probably didn t need, the guy had a job and it s going to be expensive and disable us from doing other things post sequestration, is that you know, he didn t have to do it. he didn t have to fill it on march 7th or 8th? you ll have to ask the president, he did this by himself. greta: is there any suggestion of cronyism or extra pal stuff involved in this at all or just a merit appointment? well, i think the question is, is this position actually needed? the government devotes substantial resources trying to improve minority educational performance. s. that s
a new plan that aims for balance in 2023. one way he gets there he says is to repeal 0 obamacare. we believe that obamacare is a program that will not work. we believe obama care will actually lead to hospitals and doctors and healthcare providers turning people away. reporter: because the president financed obama care in part with $716 billion in cuts to providers and medicare was already if deep financial trouble. listen. you have to remember, all that money that was taken from medicare was to pay for obama care. we say we get rid of obama care, we end the raid and we apply those savings to medicare to make more medicare and extent the volume advance see of the medicare trust fund,. reporter: president obama made cuts to obama care to make obama care nor neutral. budget hawks agree that the president s action left medicare and the federal budget in worse shape because you can t spend
vice presidential candidate going on and on and on about overspending, the country kand afford it, putting debt on the backs of our children. it s all bull. if you look at the ryan plan, it had 20% tax cuts in it and it didn t balance the budget for another 30 years. it was not a deficit reduction let me make a point about that. jared, go ahead. listen to this. this is underappreciated. the paul ryan budget plan required an increase in the debt ceiling. let s be very clear about that. i completely agree with jonathan on this. in fact, these are people who pose as budget hawks. they re really chicken hawks. those are the people who are going after chuck hagel who didn t serve in vietnam. varijared, the president yesterday in talking about proposals to deal with the issue of gun violence mentioned the idea of employing another 14,000 police officers as part of a gun control package.
in any tax bracket and insisting higher revenues can come from the closure of tax loopholes. to show our seriousness, we put revenue on the table as long as it s accompanied by significant spending cuts. you can t save the country until you have entitlement programs that fit the demographics of the changing america in the coming years. a house g.o.p. leadership aid told fox news tax and entitlement reform are too complex for this year. lawmakers will try to put some kind of interim agreement on the president s desk just after thanksgiving with mr. obama aiming to sign it by christmas. house minority leader nancy pelosi sought to project coughs, and even though she said no one broached specific figures for an overall deal. i think it would be good if we did something in the 4 trillion dollar category of deficit reduction which is similar to the grand bargain that was discussed last year. nonpartisan budget hawks