don t count. they care about reducing government expenditures, putting it in the bathtub where they can drown it, to quote grover norquist. we are at the end of a 30-year end of starving the beast. then you can use that to destroy and social expenditure programs you never liked in the first place like medicare, medicaid, social security, all kinds of programs. you never liked them but couldn t get rid of them, couldn t reduce them, and this is the culmination of that. i want to talk about we have talked about the appeal of anti-deficit of deficit messages. i want to talk about realistically if there are any way os for people to combat that because it is so powerful. ten hut! you up for the challenge suds-maker? i m gonna need more than that to get through the rest of these dishes! i want more suds! dawn? you won t last.
so, we re sending the message that democrats had better not vote for this. what the president is doing is shifting the inflation adjustments from federal praments programs from broad measurable of consumer price index to a more narrow one called the chained cpi. this is a camouflage operation designed to easily they think it s going to be easy to cut government expenditures across the board and they hope people won t notice. supporters say the chained cpi is based on simple premise that people buy different things depending on the price. when the cost of one good goes up by a lot. we shift into another good. if apple becomes more expensive, we will buy a couple more bananas, so the chained cpi is more accurate measure of inflation. the change would only reduce the future increase in benefits by only 2.5% a year. over 10 years it would lower the deficit by $339 billion. that s because the change in the cpi wouldn t just be for social security but rather all federal programs
actual cost to the taxpayers. this adds up. greta: and fly a gulf stream and fly that to new york and costs what, $15,000 i think i read a story to fly and so ten what the attorney general would pay is like whatever costs then. couple hundred bucks, to make matters worse they store the airplanes at an undisclosed military location and have to fly them to national airport to pick up the passengers of the attorney general or fbi director. greta: why can t they at least go to andrews. exactly. this is one of the classic examples, no one can look at this objectively and say it makes sense. this is a law there and people enact that law and go through with that law and ends up adding up to actually really silly government expenditures. it would be easy things to cut, but it s among those things that aren t being discussed right now. this is not the first time that senator grassley highlight this had. he does this every couple of years because it s crazy that he we still spend money
this adds up. greta: and fly a gulf stream and fly that to new york and costs what, $15,000 i think i read a story to fly and so ten what the attorney general would pay is like whatever costs then. couple hundred bucks, to make matters worse they store the airplanes at an undisclosed military location and have to fly them to national airport to pick up the passengers of the attorney general or fbi director. greta: why can t they at least go to andrews. exactly. this is one of the classic examples, no one can look at this objectively and say it makes sense. this is a law there and people enact that law and go through with that law and ends up adding up to actually really silly government expenditures. it would be easy things to cut, but it s among those things that aren t being discussed right now. this is not the first time that senator grassley highlight this had. he does this every couple of years because it s crazy that he we still spend money on this. greta: all right an
hard to fault attorney general holder for that reason because it s the policy and it s the law. they tell him what to do. but highlights again how silly this whole sequester he debate is. rather than taking the easy stuff, stuff you can cut and no one is going to feel it and say you know what, maybe we ll make the guy drive out to the air force base. greta: 20 minutes out to andrews. a couple minutes more rather than do easy things like that, we ll do senseless government expenditures. greta: and i guess that s sort of arose when 9/11 happened we never want to be out of touch with the director of the fbi or attorney general and want them on the fancy planes with great communication system and time has gone by and maybe rethink this and we re not. exactly right. it becomes mindless and became these essentials of personnel that needed to be in touch all the time. no one is saying the attorney general and fbi director can t go on personal trips or go home for the weekend, but