his mother said a lot of things. god love you, indeed. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, march 19th. with us, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lamir. joe and mika have the morning off. it is a busy morning, though, as kasie just mentioned, we re getting fans in the stands for baseball. good for you. mets, yankees, 20% capacity, a few thousand fans in there. at least it s a start. i know how excited you are about the yankees hot start and spring training and seeing some of those great yankees fans populating that stadium in the bronx. as my mother would say actually, i can t say that on the air. you better no. we re going to have 12% capacity at fenway park. lamir, you excited for the yanks? they re looking good in the spring? willie, my question is, as yankee stadium fills up to 10, 15, 20% capacity, that s obviously going to leave a lot of empty seats, particularly dow
customers didn t like it. term pain the republicans want it because they want permanent so why do banks do it? reduction in the size of hello? government. hello?! similar at the state level. if your bank doesn t let you talk to a real person 24/7, when you have governments shrinking head count maybe some you need an ally. of the jobs unfilled is some of hello? the jobs the government shouldn t have been doing in the first time but it was the wrong ally bank. your money needs an ally. time to cut those jobs. i want to just amplify that and raise an interesting what i think is an interesting question where we are right now. josh is absolutely right. folks are not be driven by the kinds of ration enamel keynesian economics you outlined. they are being driven by a desire to use deficit anxiety, kind of get everybody s hair on fire about the budget deficit so we can slash and burn the size of government. what s interesting now is that as the deficit really comes down since aflac is helpin
are going to be, throughout the country this fall, talking about we can t have any more stimulus spending, we spent too much and we re not paying for what we are spending and this gets us further into the hole. how does that square with that deficit anxiety with but we have to extend the tax cuts? that s the thing. if i m a republican, i say, well, gee, look how upset democrats are when we talk about letting you keep more of your money. but they don t ever worry about the deficit when they talk about taking more of your money and having these stimulus plans. listen. the bottom line is you know it, chrystia democrats want to spend money without paying for it and republicans want to cut taxes without paying for it. in the end, everybody loses. result is a big budget deficit is what everybody can aagree on. it has been this way a long time and continues now. you talk about the showdown that romer has. that is what we re going into this fall. democrats saying let s spin more mo