was not the way it should have been said. if he had a position on the issues he should have given those issues and i think that is my personal opinion. chris: you regret it? i think it was inappropriate. can i say something, go back to the pledge because. chris: 30 seconds. the american public heard from the young guns. it turned out to be a pop gun. turned out to be spin, not substance, not specifics. it turned out to be a return to the failed bush policies which demonstrably got us into a deep hole. the american public two economic prell issues. one we pursued wigraine us the best economy we have seen in yours and my life sometime in the 90s or the worst economy we have seen in the 2000s. chris: congressman hoyer, thanks so much for coming in. with 37 days left to the elections it will be quite a rush to the finish.unhow you get, about is.s ga-3
milktose and the people who wrote it weren t prepared to leave. chris: they want to go in the other direction. the point is we are pursuing a program which is getting our country back to work, creating manufacturing jobs where we lost manufacturing jobs under the bush administration and has a plan to get the budget under control. we adopt a pay the republicans passed programs and didn t pay for them. in this document, they don t want to pay for them either. in fact, in this document they want to create another $4 trillion in debt and they say the way they will solve the deficit problem is to cut nondefense, nonsecurity discretionary spending. they wouldste have to cut betwn two thirds and 80% of all discretionary spending over the next ten years. chris: i think it is more like 22%. i don t think so. chris: for the $100 billion in the first year. let s move on to another issue, taxes.
november because the tea party is well within the republican intent and pushing it forward. afterwards if they don t govern in a way that they are emboldened energized grass roots want them to theyville a lot of problems. i don t think we have seen a time when a party that is this unpopular is poised to make such big gains in congress and there is a lot of warnings in that. chris: brit, twine ask you a version of what i asked bill. do you think this pledge to america is serious? i think it is serious. it is just small. it isn t really serious. this issue of this entitlement tsunami of unfunded liabilities which is staggering and would bring the economy to its knees in we went on as we are, is the great economic issue of our time. the recession will in the fullness of time, the effects of it will subside but that
thing is sitting out there ready to land on us in a crushing way. the public i think is more tuned to this and aware of this than ever before. younger people, you ask them about what they think they are get out of social security or medicare and they don t expect to get a dime. people are ready for this. people on social security are grandfathered in with their benefits in any serious proposal made. the republicans have come up short here and they may be behind the curve. the republicans may be, too, to the extent this is not a strong enough document and i think the public would absorb and accept and get behind. chris: for all the hype about the pledge i m not sure that it was the most interesting political moment this week and for that i want to go back to the town hall meeting the c nbc town hall meeting with president obama where a woman, a professional who voted for barack obama two years ago talked about her
want to know how you would run things and what kind of house it would be with speaker boehner. i think the american people want us to find a way to address the concerns that face the american people every day. this is not about democrats or republicans or about politics. it is about meeting the needs of the american people who sent us here to do their bidding. chris: and can you give me areas, obviously you have your agenda and you would like them to adopt it. probably not. can you see compromise between the president at one end and speaker boehner at the other end? to is extent we can find common ground, i would welcomey it. chris: thank you both for