remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that she s rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that we ve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth year in a row. well, the sky high numbers start to blur in this country. it s trillions here and trillions there and hundreds of trillions. it gets confusing. tonight actually there s a really frighteningly easy way to put that $1 trillion in perspective. so to give you just a sense of how much money we re burning through that we do not have, remember the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts that coming at the end of the year? the so-called sequester cuts that republicans and democrats alike say will kill
the plane land asked the passengers were taken off. a bomb squad is spongd and a delta technician has been called in to try to figure out whether the wiring is indeed suspicious. we don t know how many passengers were on board the flight but it did land safely. all right. and at this point in time, not to put you on the spot. do we know who did this? it is unclear at this time. there is some conflicting information about that. so at this time they are saying it was discovered until we get further information about that. all right. and the situation at jfk right now. is it open? still operational? what can you tell us about that? yes. as far as we know, the operation, the airport is operating normally. they are trying to figure out exactly what happened involving this incident as they try to figure out whether that wiring is indeed suspicious or is not. and by all accounts, the bomb squad, were they waiting when the plane landed at 9:30 p.m. eastern? do we know, i gu
burnett. a damsel in distress. remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that she s rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that we ve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth year in a row. well, the sky high numbers start to blur in this country. it s trillions here and trillions there and hundreds of trillions. it gets confusing. tonight actually there s a really frighteningly easy way to put that $1 trillion in perspective. so to give you just a sense of how much money we re burning through that we do not have, remember the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts th s thas that c the end of the year? the so-called sequester cuts that republicans
back. i think it s right that it s difficult to walk it back, but i guess you end up sort of saying, well, a lot of tax cuts, a lot of this. the thing that worries me about this in the sort of broad way you were putting it in terms of who gets rewarded and punished, what we re learning increasingly is that we have this kind of breakdown of accountability in the american political system where you can have a minority that using objection and later on divided government that essentially drives outcomes or at least drives nonoutcomes through gridlock then instead of getting judged for the consequences the majority gets judged for consequences that aren t of their making. i mean, republicans and democrats agree that barack obama, president obama s preferred economic policy, the american jobs act, has not actually passed congress. and yet this is considered the obama economy and republicans say, you know, every job lost, every job not gained is 100% on his watch despite the fact what he w
back. i think it s right that it s difficult to walk it back, but i guess you end up sort of saying, well, a lot of tax cuts, a lot of this. the thing that worries me about this in the sort of broad way you were putting it in terms of who gets rewarded and punished, what we re learning increasingly is that we have this kind of breakdown of accountability in the american political system where you can have a minority that using obstruction and later on divided government that essentially drives outcomes or at least drives non-outcomes through gridlock. and then instead of getting judged for the consequences the majority gets judged for consequences that aren t of their making. i mean, republicans and democrats agree that barack obama, president obama s preferred economic policy, the american jobs act, has not actually passed congress. and yet this is considered the obama economy and republicans say, you know, every job lost, every job not gained is 100% on his watch despite the fact w