that benefit the vast majority of the american people. so it takes it out of the heart of the middle class. and says the old trickle down theory, we want a little more trickle. our view as democrats is, we want the middle class to prosper. we know that with job creation in this country, with more education and training, with investment and research and development, that s where new jobs come from. and we don t need to give those who already have a great deal at this time more breaks and add to our deficit. congressman chavifz, one of the things i thought was redeeming about simpson/bohls, everyone had skin in the came. my understanding is social security is not on tablt and the defense cuts proposed would be offset. shouldn t everything be in play if we really want to address the debt of the country? well, i think that in the house republican budget that we passed, went through committee, it passed through the house of representatives, we re actually doing our job. we re actually a