mandated, which the secretary of defense and our uniformed chiefs have said will devastate our national security. in fact, a marine deputy commandante said we couldn t respond to a crisis after these kinds of draconian measures are taken. i support further cuts in defense. but they have to be done with a scalpel and not with a meat ax. greta: whose fault is it that it is not ben being done today? whose fault it? because, you know what? no one seems to be working on it, today. if, actually, someone s working hard. but we haven t had much success. i will take the blame for t. you want to blame somebody? blame me. i am ranking greta: no. i am sure this is the committee. greta: but senator graham and a few people. but the bottom line, no progress since november. we need the president of the united states to call us over and say, okay. we need to fix this and how can we do that greta: why isn t he doing that? i don t know he s not doing
mandated, which the secretary of defense and our uniformed chiefs have said will devastate our national security. in fact, a marine deputy commandante said we couldn t respond to a crisis after these kinds of draconian measures are taken. i support further cuts in defense. but they have to be done with a scalpel and not with a meat ax. greta: whose fault is it that it is not ben being done today? whose fault it? because, you know what? no one seems to be working on it, today. if, actually, someone s working hard. but we haven t had much success. i will take the blame for t. you want to blame somebody? blame me. i am ranking greta: no. i am sure this is the committee. greta: but senator graham and a few people. but the bottom line, no progress since november. we need the president of the united states to call us over and say, okay. we need to fix this and how can we do that greta: why isn t he doing that? i don t know he s not doing
for america, and it was polled 800 veterans and i think it s because they know ultimately what maintains our strength, and our military strength. it doesn t mean we don t think that afghanistan is important, of course we do, thinking about every guy over there. at the end of the day it s that economy that feeds our military power, if we don t address our debt, a threat to our national security fwe don t get it back on track, veterans know that and that s what concerned vets for america tries to talk about. one of those tough decisions is cuts to the military. regarding sequestration and the mastif cuts coming down from the military. and how concerned are you about those? you ve got to be concerned about them. panetta calls them a meat ax to the defense budget. exactly what they are, and veterans knows there s waste in the defense department. we intoed to reform defense spending and you don t do that by chopping across the board.
that seniors might have. and if you are bending the health care costs down as president obama said it would, it shouldn t be a problem to have a ceiling on the costs. you see the logic of what i am saying? greta: do i hear you. i know that it has, at least this week, has consumed the discussion in the campaign. let me ask about you sequestration. come january, unless something happen, there is going to be a huge jolt in many areas of the government. tell me what could be done to sort of forestall the sequestration and come up with a solution that really works and is wise and is prudent. first of all, i think we did a stupid thing when we said if the select committee failed, then there would be automatic across-the-board cuts. should you never do do across-the-board cuts because you take a meat ax and put valuable programs on the same level as those that need to be
that seniors might have. and if you are bending the health care costs down as president obama said it would, it shouldn t be a problem to have a ceiling on the costs. you see the logic of what i am saying? greta: do i hear you. i know that it has, at least this week, has consumed the discussion in the campaign. let me ask about you sequestration. come january, unless something happen, there is going to be a huge jolt in many areas of the government. tell me what could be done to sort of forestall the sequestration and come up with a solution that really works and is wise and is prudent. first of all, i think we did a stupid thing when we said if the select committee failed, then there would be automatic across-the-board cuts. should you never do do across-the-board cuts because you take a meat ax and put valuable programs on the same level as those that need to be