ross perot running on the debt as an independent. or democratic running as fiscal conservative to trump s right on these issues. deficit numbers speak for themselves. people gamed out his tax plan, he added money to the debt. this is definitely not the conservative that he promised to be to some of the voters if he gets through some of these packages. and i just think that there s the opportunity and the possibility that some people would be disappointed, some people that voted for him. it s a surprise for him to talk about increasing defense spending when he s actually talked about how it s been the wars that have stopped us from rebuilding our country. what would make sense is keep the sequester in place and invest instead in america. instead of spending billions of dollars a week across the globe in different parts rebuild
to invest. he wants more room to roll back some of the sequester and spend more now. maybe you know, in tradinging for cuts later, stronger bigger cuts down the road. he s saying that s what we ve got to do to keep the economy going and that s the message he s trying to bring for ordinary americans. susan, republicans are not letting up at all on obama care. do you think that might overshadow the president s economic push? how much traction is he going to get with that? it must be so frustrating for the white house because there are signs that the economy s getting better. not just with the stock market hitting new records. the deficit numbers are going down pretty quickly. even been a turn. food stamp usage, the cost of food stamps. it gets overwhelmed by the problems with obama care. next week, you re going to have this big push by the white house on the economy. but the self-imposed deadline for the website to be working is next saturday. and that s where the news coverage is go
care and health care in general in this country, and i don t think it will end well from a polling perspective from this president. ben, to answer some of the things the white house will say, yes, we botched syria publicly, but hey, did you see what the government did today? yes, this has been a painful period in budget negotiations, oh, by the way, did you see the deficit numbers? look at the results. the same thing will be on health care. it looks awful right now, but what happens when it starts working? they just have to hope they re right on this and it s a fair point on syria and in the end they turn out to be okay. i m care, i m not entirely certain. they have to answer questions about his veracity and what is happening now and the 41% could be his low point and he could bounce back up and it s equally possible if he stays where he is and it s like the republicans are in a worse position. a bouncing ball sometimes
better. as you know, the most important part of the economy getting better is public confidence, as the deficit numbers, as you know, are going down. in other words, we may not have the deficit percentage of the gdp as we thought we were going to have. yeah, the people are going to hold us accountable. it will go to 2014. if it becomes a situation where obama care has been found constitutional by the united states supreme court, people are going to start to ask, why are we still holding up this country and the budgets that are so necessary to run it over an issue that the supreme court has said, hey, it s constitutional. democratic congresswoman from hawaii, thank you very much for your time. thank you, alex. let s go now to your fast five headlines. 20 people have been arrested in mexico city as riot police broke up a fight of striking teachers.
attention to the economics during the george w. bush years, you saw that kind of supply trickle down stuff is complete fairy dust. in a way it is worse in the american case. in the european case you can say we have these very high debt levels. to be clear, austerity is making them worse, not better so let s get that off the table. if you mentioned the congressional office numbers, they show our deficit situation considerably improving as we all expected once the recession faded. so the problem now is that for a lot of conservatives, they can t point to deficit numbers that are historically high because they ve come down. unfortunately for many of these people, they use facts way a drunk uses a street lamp. not for illumination but for support. so if the facts don t fit the case, they don t change their underlying policy suggestions. they just kind of move along and