universal health care strategies. trying to kill medicaid. we are going we are facing really unhealthy future for americans, particularly women, and particularly women who are poor. now let me ask you to stand by one minute, congresswoman. i d like to bring in patrick hurd and his wife betsy. pat is the ceo of planned parenthood of southeastern virginia and betsy is currently battling breast cancer and has run in the komen fund-raising races in the past. thank you both for joining me this evening. thanks for having us. thank you very much. pat, what is your reaction to this decision? i m disappointed. i m saddened. i m frustrated. and i m fearful. i m especially fearful for the women that are not going to be able to have the life-saving screening, the life-saving breast education that these komen funds provide. i am hopeful that our supporters
they are not higher taxes. these are tax give aways. you re not going to get them. they are oil companies to corporate jets to hedge fund managers. call it what you want, you won t get them. pat, look, you say the republicans have the advantage. i m not sure what you call it. they are obviously give aways to the corporates. you say republicans have the advantage. what if we don t raise the debt ceiling but don t go into default. money comes into the treasury all the time. we use it to pay our debt so there is no default. the president says okay i have the biggest line veto in the history of mankind. i will only fund programs you are in favor of. you republicans get nothing from now on. then who s got the advantage? you re tell meg that president of the united states look, if the president of the united states you re right. the president of the united states would have to start chopping spending and programs like that. what are the big ones? medicare, medicaid? social secu
that s why they are screaming bloody murder today. he showed i mean, to force them, he forced them to defend the corporate jets, oil companies, hedge fund manager. and millionaires and billion airs in addition to try and kill medicaid. let s agree let s agree that president obama just did a magnificent performance yesterday, okay? but that still does not get back to the fundamental point that the republicans have the whip hand here. and when they take those nonsense. no, they don t. hold on. then look, if they are the ones that passed the bill with the debt ceiling on there, and raise that and 1.6 trillion, why aren t they going for higher taxes? they would not do it? they don t believe in that? and bill clinton says don t do it. they aren t going for higher taxes. lincoln said, can you call a pig a goat. that doesn t make it a goat.
spending and the senate has never done anything and haven t passed a single bill to keep the government does it make sense to shut down the government now that you have gotten the big cuts. i want to get off of tens of billions of dollars, 2 to 4%, shaving off our budget deficit and get into the debate of trillions of dollars and that is where we ll go this week. but put the emphasis where it ought to be, the senate democrats have not passed a bill to prevent a shut down, we have passed two. chris: congressman on the other hand, if the two parties are having so much trouble as they are now over a couple of billion dollars, 1 or 2% you are talking about cutting you say more than $4 trillion, revamping medicare, medicaid, how will that happen when you can t get an agreement on that is a good question and i find it ironic the week we are trying to engage the president and democrats and the country with an honest debate about our budget, real solution, to fix the country s prob
says medicare can stay on its current path, even obamacare acknowledges that and we shouldn t measure ourselves against a mythical future of medicare that is not sustainable. medicare itself literally crowds out all other government spending at the end of the day. we cannot sustain that. we have to get medicare solvent. rick foster, the chief actuary came to the budget committee the other day and said one of the best things we can do to save medicare and bend that cost curve, and help inflation is to go to the type of system we are proposing. chris: medicaid and i better ask, because i m facing this in the reports, the reports are that you will save $1 trillion over ten years on medicaid. true. those numbers are different as well. you will see our specific numbers we will propose block grants to the states and have had so much testimony from the governors, saying give thus freedom to customize our programs to tailor the unique but, critics say you are not reforming, tha