That does not you have to deal with long term entitlement costs and revenue. Any real solution will be a combination of the two. That has been the real holdup. President obama got hammered. The head of the House Republican Campaign Committee came out instantaneously and slammed him. He was quickly followed by progressives who saw this as another betrayal by the president. On the issue of longterm deficit challenges, medicare, Social Security, do you see trends in Health Care Spending or with reform that might provide some reason for caution in going too far in medicare . And how severe is the challenge on Social Security . I think Social Security is the least complicated of the two. Health care is much more difficult. The trends have been down lately. Whether that continues, i hope that is the case. That it reflects change in practice that slows that cost down. I am optimistic about that, but not certain. If that is the case, it would help immensely. What you need is to figure out how
Work with. Big the determine how pie is going to be, it gets a lot easier to work out how big to be. Ice is going once you work out how much the gets to work then its much easier to the out the details of budget. Once they have master agreement they know will pass the house theres thete, then will of the leadership of the pass and the senate to Appropriations Bills in regular whole lot becomes a asier and becomes harder for the whole process. Very hard for us to rationalize why we ought to Central Payments to multimillionaire farmers. So the whole argument about the there are s is a number of nuances to that. And the second part of it is, think its been extremely hand fisted the way the republicans have handled the whole issue of nutrition d stamp program, so forth, the fact we have 48 million americans on when it was originally designed for 2 million or 3 million americans, deserves sue that serious attention, okay . Why is that . What are we doing . Have the answers, but i why it bec
[ theme ] hello current tv fans. This is chris lavoie, stephanie is not here today. She has food poisoning. Im not going to say that travis and i did anything but we did scheme and plot and then we were at her house saturday night and now im in the big chair. So im just going to let you put the pieces together. Travis did say you guys would slip a pill in her chardonnay and something would happen. Look at what happened. So weve got John Fuglesang holding down the fort in new york. Weve got mooks here in burbank. Weve got a full show today. Hello, jim you walked in. Hello. Give him a minute to get organized. Never mind the live radio tv thing happening. Jim is joining you for the show . How gallant . We had headphones in the studio. Look at that. Somebody elses fault. But we got rude pundit coming up this hour and right now weve got news with Jacki Schechner. I do it all. Look at that. Good morning everybody. President obama, Vice President biden meeting today with Law Enforcement offic
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