the united states senate. they haven t even balanced, they haven t passed a budget in three years. i understand that. but your own budget, that you you are talking about the house budget? i m talking about the house budget. your budget will be a political issue in this campaign. the house budget doesn t budget until 2030s under the current measurement of the cbo baseline. we believe if we get the economy growing and get people back to work we balance the budget in ten years. that raises the question. your selection brought in focus your reputation and standing as someone who wants to trim the federal government down to size. prepared to take on and reform the entitlement programs and so forth. that doesn t sound to the average person like growth talk. it sounds it is. i understand. but i want you to explain it. it doesn t sound like growth talk. it sounds like budget talk. you know me better than that. romney and i share the same ideas how the get the country back o
problems. it didn t happen. it didn t happen because he didn t have the experience. he didn t have the record. he didn t have the policies to do it. portman has been around the block in washington from a lawyer in the white house council s office and office of legislative affairs to congressmen from cincinnati to u.s. trade representatives and budget director under president george w. bush. portman was seen as a budget talk in congress and the bush administration. he earned nicknames from president bush some revealed as he steps down from the office of management and budget. although my title was director of omb other titles came my way. dr. know. tight wad. budget hawk. penny pincher and some not suitable for television audienceses. there are critics out there who say this is a bush administration that also ballooned the national debt and some see that as a negative
even making parts for solar panels that harness the sun s energy. working on social activities like clean up programs on beaches in many locations. and regional replanting activities that will help make a better world for all of us. one team. one planet bridgestone. once budget talk turns to taxes the republicans ran for the hills. they didn t want to be anywhere around there. now it is time for president obama to step in to close the
perhaps one of life s most valuable and important messages, the book, the long good-bye, a memoir, meghan o rourke, the author, incredible compliments due to you for doing the hard work of publishing something like this. thank you so much. meghan o rourke. we take a momentary break, on hardball, more talk on the budget talk. we return, right after this. [ male announcer ] this is larry. whose long day starts with arthritis pain. and a choice. take tylenol arthritis and maybe up to six in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. happy chopping. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. diabetes testing? what else is new? you get the blood, hope it s enough, it s what s this?
they re rich, they re $130 a barrel for brent. they have the money. they should be paying us to help them, and they can pay us with oil or car. the they. brenda: i ve got to get to jonas, jonas, go ahead. first of all, the oil rich nations are not going to get us to pay the oil rich nations that are run by kingdoms. why not? who will pay for it. the countries not as broke as us, china, japan, we ve got an expensive. brenda: we ve got to go, thank very much and thanks to malia we appreciate having you. now, we know all of this budget talk can be a little boring, but enough to put our own vp to sleep? the name to wake him up and maybe get us all out of this debt mess.