pointed out, the american people disagree with him, both on taxes and social security and medicare. across the board. congressman barney frank, thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate your take. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the skreerngs share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and facebook. after weeks of republican attacks u.n. ambassador susan rice drops out of the running for secretary of state. msnbc s jonathan alter and former rnc chair michael steele with reaction. stay with us. we re right back. of medicare and social security. anncr: but you deserve straight talk about the options on the. table and what they mean for you and your family. ancr: aarp is cutting through all the political spin. because for our 37 million members, only one word counts. get the facts at earnedasay.org. let s keep medicare. and social security strong for generations to come.
substantial reductions in m s s medicare and i think when that choice comes okay. here s john boehner talking about his future as speaker. here it is. i m not concerned about my job as speaker. what i m doing about is dpog the right things for my kids and grandkids. if we don t fix this spending problem their future is going to be rather bleak. congressman, quickly, what s your take on that? he s got this right-wing constituency to which he is responding. and again, it s not spoly that they resist taxes on the very wealthy. these are people who want to undo what steps we ve taken we have increasing inequality in this country. and if you want healthy increased dose of it. he is simply reflecting this i have to say this. i have no reason to think that there is any conflict between what he wants to do personally and what his caucus is trying to get him to do. fortunately, as you ve just
they asked him why he robbed the banks at least reputedly and he said that s where the money is. if we re going to cut let s go where the money is. in the military budget, particularly in that part of the military budget unrelated to legitimate national security needs, unrelated to the need to protect people who really are in trouble. we are still fully stocked to wen a thermonuclear war with the soviet union long after there isn t one. we are still protecting germany, italy, england, and austria from staalin and his successors even though they are now strong enough to meet a threat which in fact doesn t exist. i just had my very able aid marcus rose check this for me. over the last ten years we have spent $3.8 billion in medicare. that s true. during that same period we spent $5.6 billion on the military. the military has been going up fast faster and it includes an awful lot of expenditure, unnecessary. we re reading today that canada