continuing resolution. first of all, there is a lot of gimmickry in this continuing resolution because a fair amount of the money being saved are called rescissions which is money not spent anyway so the sense is we re returning money back to the treasury because it didn t spend all the money allotted, etcetera. but if you re going to make an argument from the most extreme libertarian perspective there are a few things you have to conceive of as basic public goods and things like tsunami warning systems, early warning systems for seismic events are clearly public good. even in the most kind of stripped down conception of a real kind of night watchman state, those are things you want the government doing. and in the general context of the federal budget do not cost that much money. let s keep in mind that the entire defense portion of the budget and the earmarks therein, there are more earmarks in the bill than any other bill have all been protected by the house republicans. it is bas
investment so gas lines don t blow up if we do have a severe earthquake? that s one of the things i find kind of bizarre about this. i was going through the continuing resolution. first of all, there is a lot of gimmickry in this continuing resolution because a fair amount of the money being saved are called rescissions which is money not spent anyway so the sense is we re returning money back to the treasury because it didn t spend all the money allotted, etcetera. but if you re going to make an argument from the most extreme libertarian perspective there are a few things you have to conceive of as basic public goods and things like tsunami warning systems, early warning systems for seismic events are clearly public good. even in the most kind of stripped down conception of a real kind of night watchman state, those are things you want the government doing. and in the general context of the federal budget do not cost that much money. let s keep in mind that the entire defense portio
net a way they did. it has got huge deficits it calls for some spending cuts. itville a road map. for members of congress who ultimately get to decide on this they are asking tough questions and many of them so far have been about issues this relate to their home districts and go over a bit of hist train. few moments ago, republicanen of kentucky, jim budge, asking about aig. you remember the insurance giant bailed out, asking geithner why was it too big to fail? covering some of the ground we heard before because these issues persist. geithner has so far respland come under fire, he s often does. outside the men who represent the president, mr. gates, the department of defense, he has been defending the defense portion of the budget before a committee as well. everybody is talking money up here today, tamron. we appreciate it. in the wake over public anger over wall street bailout and bonuses, goldman sachs