mcconnell, he s so tough there. he s saying basically, not only can you raise the tax rates, not only can you not extend them, go after the bush tax cuts for the wealthy, better start plugging loopholes. no new net increase. what kind of position is a $1.7 trillion deficit. business would do cost cutting, any business would do revenue side. when i was a hedge fund manager, i paid on my gains, i paid an ordinary income rate. now you get to pay at a capital gains rate. it s ridiculous. if you want to be a progressive democrat, go after people paying 15% on their salary and pay ordinary income just like everybody else. this is not a loophole, it s the way it should be. everyone in the hedge fund game is laughing their laughing their heads off knowing they re going to get away with this. seems to me you guys who gets blame? this is the mcclatchy-mcclatchy
and instead we re getting less. it s outrageous. the white house says it s going to be coming from the stimulus package. are you upset at where it s coming from or upset that it s not coming from the budget? no, here s the problem. is that we have a budget year for year, department of homeland security, police officers, law enforcement. that budget is going down year over year. the stimulus money that came, some of it we did well on in new york city, some of it we did very poorly on. i talked to you about the c.o.p.s. program near and dear to my heart since i sponsored it. our application got a total of zero officers approved. i think the fact is that we still are in a mindset, no matter what administration you follow, where monies are not distributed where they re needed most. if you ask anyone from a big city or a small town where it s needed most, they d say new york city, but they re not acting that way at the administration. but you re not answering my question. i asked the