secretary pennetta has been made very clear on, he can sustain the current defense strategy if anything like those level of cuts are made. so a solution has to be found. we cannot sustain these additional defense cuts. but he also have to solve our overall fiscal problem. we are going to have to deal with the entitlements program. the biggest national security challenge we face is to get our economy growing, our people back to work, and get our fiscal situation in hand. it undergirds everything we do overseas and it is going to underminus overseas if we don t get our fiscal house in order. this is why people are paying attention and starting to get concerned, maybe alarmingly so. congress can t agree on a mother s day resolution so what gives you hope and optimism, which i know you always are, why are you optimistic they could come to a solution now before the sequestration were to
secretary pennetta has been made very clear on, he can sustain the current defense strategy if anything like those level of cuts are made. so a solution has to be found. we cannot sustain these additional defense cuts. but he also have to solve our overall fiscal problem. we are going to have to deal with the entitlements program. the biggest national security challenge we face is to get our economy growing, our people back to work, and get our fiscal situation in hand. it undergirds everything we do overseas and it is going to underminus overseas if we don t get our fiscal house in order. this is why people are paying attention and starting to get concerned, maybe alarmingly so. congress can t agree on a mother s day resolution so what gives you hope and optimism, which i know you always are, why are you optimistic they could come to a solution now before the sequestration were to
workers will have to work more for their benefits just as they are going to have to in new york. and in wisconsin. and a host of other states where some have called a union gravy train has slowed if not stopped. we will get reaction from this from republican presidential can state pawlenty but first, a pollster on the enormousty of this. guest: this is a great issue of our time in the states. it undergirds everything happening nationally. chris christie has stood up and said no, and they have done everything but they the kitchen sink including calling him hitler and this victory today is important because it is saying the unions for a long time, public employees, public employees unions and private, have been aline to negotiate with their bosses, giving campaign contributions and rigged the system in state after state, and the voters who will never seen the pensions would