on new reaction coming into the budget s president plan. president obama unveiling a $3.8 trillion plan that the white house insists will reduce our ballooning decifit. republicans argue it runs against president about him s own promise made at the beginning of his presidency. that s why today i m pledging to cut the decifit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. now, this will not be easy. it will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we ve long neglected. but i refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control. megyn: joining me now, fox business network s lou dobbs, host of lou dobbs tonight . lou, already the president s critics are coming out and saying this is a political document, it is not an actual budgetary proposal. what say you? well, i say they are
of the national park service is to protect the individuals rights under the first amendment. is it not also your job to enforce the law? well, republicans on the panel implied that jarvis was getting his orders from higher up in the administration. defendants defended the protestors right to maintain a vigil even though city officials are worried about sanitation and safety at these two sites, megyn. megyn: steve centanni, thank you. back now to our top story, and president obama s new economic push, in his state of the union address tonight. the white house says the speech is all about economic fairness, but the latest gallup poll shows us why the president may be overlooking the most important issue to voters. according to gallup, only 2 percent of voters care about the gaps between the rich and the poor. look at that. 52 percent on the other hand say jobs, the decifit, and
the problem is they re in trouble this year because everything is frozen. what they re looking to cut, $1.2 trillion, so how are they going to find a way? $300 billion would be the doctor s fix. in other words, if instead of cutting us 27 percent, they got rid of this idea all together, that we shouldn t we doctors shouldn t be penalized when they go over the amount of revenue that they anticipated, by ordering too many procedures. i get penalized for it. it s now up to 27 percent. if they got rid of it all together it would be $300 billion. if we goto they got rid of it for a year, it s going to be $22 billion. but how are they going to justify increasing the the decifit by $22 billion at a time when they re trying to cut it $1.2 trillion? megyn: i will tell you how. they don t care about you, the doctors. that s for sure. megyn: but they care about senior citizens and those are the ones on medicare and they don t want to tick off the senior citizens in an election year. let m
rather, cutting taxes, cutting our spending, reducing the decifit. that s what will gin up the economy. megyn: dick, as the south carolina democratic party chair, what do you hope happens on this vote that thewant to force this week? well, i hope that the republicans extend the obama tax cuts, and extend this thousand dollars per average working family while the republicans continue to want to extend the tax cuts for multi millionaires. they don t want to help the average american. and here s the problem. the problem is unlike the republican, we want this to succeed. the republicans are constantly finding a way to thwart barack obama s effort to put this country s economic put it back on its feet economically. this will put a thousand keep a thousand dollars in the pockets of average americans who will then spend it on things that will generate jobs. this idea that a multi millionaire is going to, if he saves a thousand dollars or $2000, is going to do
theory in the case of dominique strauss kahn, remember this guy, we ll show you evidence that suggests he may have been the victim of a setup by his political rivals in france. and president obama pushing americans to support a tax break that the gop says will add $175 billion to the decifit. both parties sort of switching sides on the tax debate here, and that fallout to your paycheck is next. i think it s very hard for republicans to vote against this, given their past history of defending the tax cuts for the wealthiest among us. i think it s destructive to extend it and raise some other tax the same dollar amount. as a matter of fact, in a more destructive economic policy.