america have become habitual. when athletes refuse to take part in patriotic gimmickry, her words. she wonders wow a country founded on rebellion finds not standing off and on an anthem or saluting a flag un-american. why is the default position for academics always patriotism sucks they laugh at you but what do they love? their patriotism is always for the enemy or anyone to lives to make america look bad. in many ways sports are a proxy for war, that s why they evoke patriotism. every american sees it as pars of the national character and it s the rare times left the left lets us get our patriotism fix. it s cooler to adore beyonce
this. because of what we saw in the final quarter of the year 2012, the economy actually shrank as defense contractors or in part because defense contractors said you know he what? the axe is about to fall. get ready for this. we re going to pull back now. remember, we spend more than $900 billion a year on the defense department, on the pentagon, and so these contractors have a lot to say about the overall size of our economy. the president having seen that is going to say look. we have these cuts that we agreed to go into place, but the economy can t handle it right now, so let s kick the can a little bit and do some of these same kinds of cuts, and they call them cuts, but they re not really cuts. sometimes they re reductions to future increases, sometimes they re taking into account things like not fighting in the iraq war any more, and accounting gimmickry to get to the next thing, and then we ll fall off that cliff when we get to it. we understand the president is going to hi
that and everything else and missing the point. sometimes the solution is a lot more simple than it might appear. in this case the 50% cut in social security, it ain t going to come up with a vote. why? because we don t work. if you re not in session, not in committee, not bringing bills forward, if you re not giving opportunities to make amendments nothing comes up. they kick the budget and sequestration down the road all last year and now here we are coming in march. they re going to kick it down the road another three months and go home. three days this past week we were supposed to meet and we met a day and a half. we went in monday night and tuesday and then we go home again. we got sworn in a few weeks ago and took a couple votes and then we went home again. you know, you re only scheduled to meet a few days between now and sequestration and the republicans, really quite frankly, they re doing it deliberately and engaging in this gimmickry like congress
neil: from charlotte with love but in case you missed our spectacular coverage of the democratic national convention, i want you to take a look at this. fox business coverage of the election 2011. the democratic national convention. if it s important to you we mean business and we don t talk about it, we go all night covering it. rather than ine engaging in gimmickry, let us engage on what should be done. what should be done? jo i don t. neil: i don t want to interpret you. it s ironic we have according to the united states treasury eclipsed a $16 trillion debt level. in order to move us out of the $16 trillion debt, which was created before the president, you have to invest in the american people. neil: wait a minute, you
of incidents, a lot of them were at newark airport, about things going wrong. a knife getting through a screening checkpoint. a dead dog that was not screened for explosives before it was loaded on a plane. so the numbers, you cited them. let s put them up so people can see. 42% of those security breaches were reported to headquarters. then only about 53% of them were corrected. there s no central reporting system, so they couldn t get the 30,000-foot view of what s going on. we ve been listening to the hearing. listen to what members of congress are asking the tsa inspector general about how exactly all of this happened. so there is no depository where one could go and pull up all of the breaches that have occurred? well, first, they need to have, like i said earlier and the chairman alluded to, there needs to be a clear definition of what a breach is. and then tsa needs to give clear guidance to the airports, what to report and when to report. and then tsa needs to foll