democrats and not attack the deficit problem. jamie: let me let mercedes weigh in on that, it s interesting, christy is saying that the president s policy is not correct. well, i mean, i would agree in terms of that it s just not enough for the enentitlement reform. when you look at the budgets, our entitlements are eating away at our budget and in fact, also increasing to our deficits, so, to say that and then we the big elephant in the room is obamacare. with the tax hikes coming with obamacare, with all the regulation, i mean, we re looking atmajor impact on small business and the economy in general. he s not focused on the fact that we need to be creating the jobs and getting people off the government program and that s the opposite effect we re seeing with this president. jamie: i have to leave it there. maybe that s a topic for another segment. i hope to have you both back. thank you, great to hear both of points of view today. kelly. kelly: and very good to see
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