These programs not to mention massive cuts in the food stamp program. But mr. Pres. , in the midst of all of these devastating cuts to health care education, nutrition that impact working families the budget do something else. I suspect people were listening. He he is being partisan. It really cant be this bad. This is reality the republican budget. I no the media does not write about it much, but that is what it is. In addition to making massive cuts in health care education, nutrition what else do they do . At a time when the wealthiest 400 americans paid a tax rate of just 16. 7 and 2012 at a time when Hedge Fund Managers pay a lower effective tax rate than working families are Truck Drivers are nurses oes based on an amendment they did is it ishes t is abolishes the estate tax. The the estate tax provides a 269 billion tax break for the middle class. Lowincome people. Not so. This repeal applies to the wealthiest not 1 percent but the top two tenths of 1 percent. Republicans pass t
I was skeptical of him until i saw him speak in person a few times or until i watched more of his speeches, rather than just watching you know, 20 second sound bites on tv. So i know he is working very hard at that. Rand, going along with what i said a minute ago i think rands biggest challenge will be to explain his Foreign Policy views. The fact he is his fathers son both a blessing and a curse at the same time. His father has with good reason, built up a very loyal following around the country over the course of many years and rand has now earned the trust and the support of a lot of that support base and built upon it from there. There are challenges that go along with that, given that ron paul had some fairly unique idiosyncratic views on certain Foreign Policy issues that make some people nervous and there are some who automatically assume that rand paul shares those views, even where he down express them, even where he is has expressed sentiments that depart markedly from those
I also think some of her work in Southeast Asia as well, something they timeout as an accomplishment as well, increasing stabilization across certain parts of that region. Those are some things we might talk about on the campaign trail. But president ial campaigns on the whole arent necessarily candidates who talk about accomplishments. They do talk about their vision for the future. Why that want to be president. And also it will be interesting when just the notion of accomplishments of any of the candidates over the last couple of years. We know congress has not been excellent at getting things done over the last couple of years. And then you have a lot of governor who oversaw their states during a pretty terrible economy over those last few years. Its going to be interesting to see how a lot of candidates talk about their accomplishments on the campaign trail. Running out of time in our segment here. Marsha from maryland on our line for independents. Can you make it quick . Caller y
With 400 members of the house of representatives, including most democrats, to impose new and tougher sanctions on iran to give us a better negotiating position. And i were to keep the credible threat of force on the table the way obama has not. Not just in the dealings with iran but all countries around the world. Sell missiles to iran . Russia announced theyd transfer surfacetoair missiles to iran. That shows how misguided the proposal is that wed let iran continue to keep its Nuclear Capabilities and potentially be able to impose new sanctions once the regime that took years to put in place, began to unravel. Senator, wanted to ask you as a freshman lawmaker how are you received when talking about these issues . Did you ask any questions yourself of kerry . I think this question is not a matter of how long someone has been in the senate or congress how long someone has been serving the government, but who is right and wrong about this matter. Many senators and congressman, democrats
Stops and things like that. I would think shell take questions from some of the people shes meeting with because shes doing sort of round table discussions. So in the Community College today shes doing a discussion i think with the educators and students. Tomorrow shell be having some sort of business round table. So i got to think thats going to you know, create the opportunity for people to ask her questions and share with her their concerns. Weve kbt a couple of minutes left be Catherine Lucey and shira center. If you want to ask them questions about 2016 well try to get to as many calls as we can. Jimmy is in panama city florida, line for independents. Good morning, jimmy. Caller good morning. I have a quick comment. Why would anyone vote for someone who would all over themselves. I am clinton supporters. And weve done well with them. And for a woman its not problem with me. I think she would be a good president and im going to vote for her. Thank you. Hey jimmy, are you still with