things like heating subsidies for people who cannot go without heat during the winter months but also a $450 million fighter jet engine program that a lot of people criticized. is it tough to go out to the other side and say i know you u have things you care about and you have to sacrifice, is it tough so say when you are fighting for things that not everyone sees the value in? everybody has the best idea to retool and retape an reshapd reform the government. i will continue to prioritize. heat funding in new hampshire and new england is an important component of getting through the winter months. it is a bear basic necessity for some families in our state and our nation. i will try to find other reductions in spending to ensure that is committed to new hampshire. with the strike fighter the fact is that having a dual source engine saves $21 billion over the course of the contract. that is smart governance.
we ve got to go across the board cutting. but going across the board, they want to leave the bush tax cuts in there. that s a separate issue. no, it s not a separate issue. it s about getting money into the treasury. the democrats wants more money into the treasury and the republicans are saying if you do this, the economy s going to get worse. there s no guarantee the bush tax cuts are going to create jobs because they re no guarantee now. from jack kennedy to raged reag reagan, if you lower tax rates you tend to make the economy better all things considered. it hasn t happened. if you add up everything the republicans say they d like to cut, you re still spending over 20% of gdp, the federal government. we re bringing in less than 15%. 14.78% is what we re bringing in of gdp. if you add everything up, you re still spending over 20%. that doesn t balance. that s why we have the deficit. both parties and most people in both parties aren t yet quite
making everyone jealous at home. the politics surrounding the infrastructure plan, the wall street journal reports the trillion-dollar building plan, 2 trillion in direct federal spending, lots more coming from private investors. smart strategy, does that get it off the ground? i imagine so. but the big problem is eventually all the bills come due. and for a republican party that has made deficits such a big deal but not the task bill. that s just it. they have taken $4 trillion off the table there and another trillion off there. then there s all the hurricane spending you have. and at a certain point, it won t balance. it already doesn t balance. and i m not sure, how many times have we heard the infrastructure bill is coming? is it going to happen this time? i heard about the infrastructure week in the summer back in washington. so it will be interesting to see if it happens this time. this happens privately with my folks at the white house. the president publicly s
of dollars and all of a sudden we are blaming the workers? no way. shannon: if we don t make the changes we will have to lay people off. money doesn t grow on trees. the bottom line doesn t balance, you know, sacrifice. but it doesn t follow that you have to eliminate collective bargaining is the whole point. the fact that collective bargaining was put on to the question of the budget crisis at the state level shows this is an idea logical attack on workers coming from wealthy interests who would rather not have people be able to negotiate anything. look at the trade agreements. no workers rights and human rights. all of our jobs going to china which is communist china and we are telling our workers here that they shouldn t have rights to negotiate. shannon: is it just a different group of workers that will lose the jobs if the unions hold form and they don t come back and vote and the gap isn t closed in the budget? it is the decision of the