rescind tarp, stop federal employee hiring. serious discussion with people in this country about these entitlement programs. the point i ve been making all long seniors aren t going to be affected. the plan i pit on myself, which is not the republican plan, but my plan doesn t affect anybody over 55. pays off our debt. puts programs on the path to solvent. if we don t stave off this debt crisis seniors will have their benefits cut. we should prevent that. greta: is social security an entitlement program? social security, medicare, medicaid are the big entitlement programs. greta: people pay into social security they don t see it as an entitlement program. technically speaking these are entitlement programs. you turn 65, you get the benefit. greta: if someone has been paying in for a number of years is that person going to get cut? i propose don t cut
estate bust enunemployment, it was hit by cold winter and the city runs the area s power, gas and water systems. people came in and said, we can t pay utility rates. council decided to lower utility rate to electricity, it s called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this fiscal year. reporter: the city put land up for sale, borrowed money, furloughed employees and cut programs. even that wasn t enough to save what makes up the biggest part of their budget, the police department. i think the council had no other choice. that was the only place you can t have a deficit. we just can t do, as the federal government. so they had no there was no other place to get that kind of money. reporter: the county sheriff will take over. many here worry about safety. we ve been told our crime is low. of course it s low because we have the presence of the police
as the city was dealing with problems like tax dollars and the real estate bust and unemployment, it was hit by a cold winder and the city runs the power, gas, and water systems. people came in and said the council decided to lower the utility rate for electricity. it s called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that, that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this year. we already had a shortfall. they re put land up for sale and furloughed employees and cut programs. that makes up the biggest part of the budget, the police department. the council had no other choice. i think that was the only place you can t have a deficit. we just can t do as a federal government. there was no other place to go to get that money. the county sheriff will take over and many worry about safety. what do you think about the economy and having to get rid of
for everything. yes. and schools are saying, you know, they ve had to increase fees and cancel classes and cut programs and cut programs and furloughed professors and reduced classes especially in california. but some state college administrators are saying even with the tuition hikes they re still not meeting their budget needs, a real problem. yeah, we re hearing from some of the students, look, we might feel a little bit better about this if you would simply offer us a little more transparency, open your books. i know you re following this story for us throughout the day. ines, appreciate it, thank you. and as we said, thousands from students from coast to coast are turning out to protest tuition hikes. josh levs is here to focus on some of the protests is and we re going to help us with the touch screen here. a lot of stuff going on on the web. for sure. i want to show you at the top, if you want to know if there s a protest going on on near you or you re a young pers
to raise taxes. this is not about really washington saying gosh, we ve been a spending spree, gee where i whiz it s sad every american owes $40,000 as his or her share of the national debt. that s more than a lot of americans make and that s how much they owe as that portion of the national debt. this is teeing it up so democrats say we don t have a choice, we re under pay go and have to raise taxes because we can t cut programs. for who? everybody. the president is now sort of taking off the table the idea that middle class tax cuts will be sacred. no one s going to get a tax hike. people will get a tax hike. if it s not a detect payroll tax, they use fuel taxes, all sorts of other means by which they pay for t buckle up and get