friend and former colleague at politico, how confident is the administration right now that geithner is there that he can help shepherd this deal in europe to have a situation put in place where there are new controls on the outliers in europe and their debt washington. then you have the ecb step in to help rescue that would be the european central bank. to buy up debt, get a final resolution to this. it s the biggest problem hanging over obama s re-election right now. if the euro craters obama loses. how are they feeling inside the white house and treasury? you put it exactly right. there s a lot on the line here. geithner notes going over there he doesn t have a lot of ammunition to bring this this fight. he can t come in with some sort of magical american bailout here. he doesn t have a t.a.r.p. program for europe politically in the united states and here on capitol hill where i am right now. that would be near on to impossible. so what he has to do is go over there and ja
as long as you reduce tax rates and it is not a hidden tax increase, yes. the talk about the constant increase in spending makes me think of a cocaine user who always needs more coke to get high. someone like this guy. america can learn a lot from a drug addict. even though this country is $14 trillion in debt washington raised the debt ceiling ten times in the last ten years. each time it is like a hit. another spending hit but you are the junkies. to borrow less you need to spend less. yeah, washington could learn a lot from a drug addict. that was an ad made by a group run by gretchen hamill. what is your group and what is it doing? we want to educate the american public on the crisis we are experiencing and all things about economics and what happens inside the beltway and try to put it in simple terms and simple ways that americans can understand like a drug addict. are you one of the front
do. ky balance the budget. i will do it right now. you just need the right tools. get rid of all ear marks. privatize air traffic control. canada there d. that and private works better. we should sell amtrak. the government can t run trains efficiently. open anwar to drilling. so far i have saved about $40 billion. oops. barely dents the deficit. we have to cut much more. so i will do that. we can do that. let s eliminate whole departments starting with the education department. they haven t improved education. children gain nothing when your money is shipped from your state to washington. laundered by bureaucrats and shipped back with strings attached. kill the agriculture subsidies which mostly go to reach farmers. keep welfare and food stamps but dump most of the department of agriculture.
get rid of all ear marks. privatize air traffic control. canada there d. that and private works better. we should sell amtrak. the government can t run trains efficiently. open anwar to drilling. so far i have saved about $40 billion. oops. barely dents the deficit. we have to cut much more. so i will do that. we can do that. let s eliminate whole departments starting with the education department. they haven t improved education. children gain nothing when your money is shipped from your state to washington. laundered by bureaucrats and shipped back with strings attached. kill the agriculture subsidies which mostly go to reach farmers. keep welfare and food stamps but dump most of the department of agriculture. kill the commerce department. the labor department. most of the energy department.
february 14 or through you bus ads in washington. raising the debt ceiling without cutting spending is our own greek tragedy. greek is a useful model because you can see the riots. most of this debate people can t see. so you have your ads. you have the ledge you can see at least, it is hard to explain this to people who have lies. you need to make it clear and the point of the pledge is to make it credible when a politician says i m not going to raise your taxes. why would you believe them? they have been lying for 2,000 years. if they put it down in writing and hand it to you makes the commitment more believable and has slowed down their willingness to raise taxes. as milton friedman says tax and spending all the same, this doubling under bush and obama really wasn t publicized much.