85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can start cutting, the better. Where exactly should they start . Repealing obama care has to be their First Priority simply because 44 of the growth in sbiltsment spending is driven by the health care law. So if we are to rein in growing spending and debt obama care is where we need to start. This needs to be combined with reforms to Medicare Medicaid, and Social Security. During this process, lawmakers should be guided by focusing benefits on those individuals with the greatest need and delivering tho
Of colors and the sun is coming up. The temperatures have been dropping with thirties and their filled in vallejo and santa rosa is off to 37 degrees. Local in the upper 40s census got at 54 degrees and 42 down in san jose. We are anticipating slightly warmer conditions looking ahead we armaghs trying a series of storms heading in our direction. It is a significant amount of land as we headed to the weekend. It also your seven there, before cab will for now will see how traffic during george 19 great were looking at extremely light traffic on all of the bay area freeways as we hoped we would see. At the bay bridge toll plaza you can see just how like it is even though the meeting last activated later than usual high and are still on and possible that we could see them turned off to traffic continues like this. However there is a problem in the north bank and is up in santa rosa 101 the file where a person was shot and killed on the roadway possibly by more than one vehicle because the
Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is to with this and their dynamics, technology, education, globalization institutional changes, declining value of the minimum wage, all of those factors i think our continuing you know to create an underlying challenge to inequality and thats what were proposing all the steps we are for minimum wage to education to shaping globalization in terms are good for American Workers and the American Economy
Snow by about 2 00 a. M. And we will take longer, to the the south and east. Im joined by kate bilo who will talk more about the timing of this, and what to expect as far as accumulations and kate, it all depend on location location, location. Yep, just like in real estate kathy lets start outlooking at locations of when that change over will happen. Poconos between 9 00 and 11 00 when we can see change over to snow. Lehigh valley change between 11 00 p. M. And 1 00 p. M. The in the city we will see change over from 1 00 a. M. And 3 00 p. M. Down a across southern new jersey and delaware between 3 00 a. M. And 5 00 a. M. Far coastal points it may take longer and that is one of the concerns we have with this system. How long that takes and how much sleet mix these to the the snow. That could limit accumulations. How quickly does that snow push to the south w that said take a look at our latest snow map. This shows what we are thinking here. Lower amounts across lehigh valley. What you w
Shut out twice catherine is opening day. They only have a hundred and 50 something games left today always out there all day doing the radio saying. And is surprising to see how little white ball can make so many people happy. Right now theyre not hitting and pitching with the exception of this new kid catherine today be happy and keep tweeting catherine thousands of fans packed at t park for the home opener dan kerman is live at the gang while it was a Beautiful Day for baseball. The bases were loaded the was the crowd was very hopeful when the giants got a runner on base. But it did not happen today but the giants fans are not giving up. Reporter there started arriving at at t park hours before the gates open. But these are not just your run ofthemill giants fan. These are folks this the opening day as a holiday they must celebrate in person. unbent although of firsttime games. Opening day and hes four years old tradition reporter and no matter how old or young these giants fans are