virginia took it upon themselves to come up with their own solution to paying back the nation s debt and making a point at the same time. they sent the following e-mail to speaker john mainer. in support of your effort to continue millatioio outrageous cuts, we re advising you of the west virginia afl-cio plan to reduce the debt of our nation while protecting the rich and tax-dodging corporations. what s the plan? to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the social security act, the afl-cio will host a hot dog fund-raiser in 14 west virginia cities. they plan to donate the proceeds to the bureau of public debt. i don t think they should hold tharl breath waiting for speaker boehner to accept the invitation. we want you to know how far back our government s debt really goes. believe it or not, back to 1790 when the first government bonds were issued to pay off the
were broken. you don t need a weather man to know it s hot out there. we re going to ask is overpopulation partly responsible for global warning. caddie sacked. few people closer than a golfer and his caddy. tiger woods s firing of his caddy is beginning to look like an ugly divorce. he s already said five words that must terrify critics, those words when i write my book. finally, we start with the debt crisis. senator ben card en is a democrat from maryland. you were with the president in your statement today. tell us the latest on the deal. michael, good to be with you. we got to pass the debt ceiling by august 2nd. it s the republicans in the householding this up. the president is working hard with speaker boehner trying to come together with an agreement. the bottom line is, look, we ve got to increase the debt ceiling. we can t jeopardize the credit of america. quite frankly we need a balanced plan, a comprehensive plan to get the deficit under control. it needs
the spending cuts. everyone is going home for the weekend as the clock ticks down. when you find it can t get worse for the murdochs, we learn that james murdoch may have been less than truthful when he told parliament he wasn t aware of how extensive the phone hacking was. now the justice department is investigating whether u.s. laws were broken. you don t need a weather man to know it s hot out there. we re going to ask is overpopulation partly responsible for global warning. caddie sacked. few people closer than a golfer and his caddy. tiger woods s firing of his caddy is beginning to look like an ugly divorce. he s already said five words that must terrify critics, those words when i write my book. finally, we start with the debt crisis. senator ben card en is a democrat from maryland. you were with the president in your statement today. tell us the latest on the deal. michael, good to be with you. we got to pass the debt ceiling by august 2nd. it s the republic
our politic we ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door and do what is best for our economy and people. john mainer released a statement refusing to budge on tax increases saying i m happy to discuss these issues at the white house. but such discussions will be fruitless until the president recognizes economic and legislative reality. edward klein is a policy analyst and columnist for the washington post. so good to see you. good morning. they have this private meeting. even though john boehner calls it fruitless, is there a sense that some movement is being made or no? no. i think john boehner at the moment is quite right about it being fruitless. but for president obama, there is a sense he is continually reaching out and calling these people back, trying to do the work of the american people, trying to reach a deal. because if the debt ceiling caves in, he doesn t want to be the guy to blame. he wants them to say they were never serious about coming to a deal and they
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