okay. let me two things. i just don t see any program cuts. you re talking in general terms. let me tell you this. the major republicans that come on television will not cut social security, medicare, medicaid. they won t cut the military, they can t cut debt servicing. they won t get rid of a major cost of government. they ll talk about let s freeze discretionary spending or discretionary and domestic in some generalized way. they won t get rid of government. they seem to like government. in fact, they love to talk against it. go to americanroadmap.org and you will see a comprehensive legislation the cbo has scored of actually paying off the debt with very specific reforms to the entitlements you mentioned. name a major piece of the 1.4 to 1.7 just take a chunk out of that 1.4 by getting rid of a good program people now watching can understand. i would rescind the unspent stimulus funds. i would rescind all the t.a.r.p.
it s nothing to sneeze at. i just don t see any program cuts. you re talking in general terms. let me tell you this. the major republicans that come on television will not cut social security, medicare, medicaid. they won t cut the mirt. they can t cut debt servicing. they won t get rid of a major cost of government. they ll talk about let s freeze discretionary spending or discretionary and domestic in some generalized way. they won t get rid of government. they seem to like government. in fact, they love to talk against it. go to american road map dot org and you ll see legislation the cbo has scored as actually paying off the debt with very specific reforms to the entitlements you mentioned. name a major piece of the 1.4 1.7 trillion. just take a chunk out of that 1.4 by getting rid of a big program, good expenditure that the people now watching can understand. i would rescind the unspent
but i think the other important thing is that, you know, republicans may feel that certain of these government functions are nonessential but actually quite essential to a lot of people and also the other impact that was not mentioned was that the united states, as a debtor the united states credit worthiness would come into question. whether or not we re a reckless country that is not properly servicing our debt because debt servicing comes under government spending. you can t say we re going to shut down the government with no consequences internationally. americans would feel the pin. of it over time. for the gop, they allow another government shutdown, it s going to like like they re cap taken chaos. they get into government and the wheels fall off, the government is shutting down. since they haven t done anything on jobs, this is what they ll be known for going forward into the campaign season and for republicans that would be bad news. joy-ann, when you talk about