you know, a lot of americans have had to take pay cuts in this economy. people are tightening their belts, families and so forth. here s a question from chuck dutcher, essentially on that same point. the government needs to reduce spending. if every american is cutting back on their personal spending, then so should the federal government. do you get the sense, josh, that there is any appetite or any discussion on capitol hill of reducing federal wages and benefits? i haven t heard anything about it. i mean, you know, i d be surprised to see congress cutting their own salaries. it s hard for them to cut spending, i don t know that they re going to cut the paycheck they take home. that being said, federal employees salaries have gone up over the last several years, and there is some question about whether that s a place that folks should slow down spending. jon: all right. stick with us, we ll be back with more questions from our america s town hall panel. thanks, guys, we ll be righ
veterans day we are proud to honor them. we ll hear from one of the original tuskegee airmen who just returned to the skies in the an aircraft he once flew. it s a story you do not want to miss. plus, our town hall panel is getting fired up. send us your questions or join our live chat. harris is monitoring them. what s the buzz, harris? reporter: they have arrived at a flash point at this point. they are talking money big time. red rider on our live chat writes, we cannot afford to, quote, start cutting debt; we have to do it, in all caps. and then someone got things tipped off with this question, jim asks, does anybody think americans will be better off financially next year? someone writes, jim, i think it will be longer than that. mark writes, jim, not next year, but the following year though. so they re kind of planning ahead and looking at finances. and a ton of questions coming in the for our upcoming panel. go to foxnews.com, look for the top story on the front page and the
surprising news in several races today, plus, our town hall u.s.a., america s asking, go to foxnews.com/happening now, to post your questions for our all-star panel today. and major breaking news, in the mail bomb plot when jenna and i join you, in 16 minutes. the recording speaks for itself and it is obvious they were trying to do something an generate news and i encourage people to go to the audio an transcript and make the decision for themselves. martha: that was the republican, joe miller, reacting to the reports of a political scandal out of alaska. sarah palin who has been a big supporter of joe miller, a tea party candidate to be sure, says the accidental voice mail, that was picked up after the person on it thought they hung up, shows the editorial staff at ktva were discussing angles on how to portray the republicans throughout the campaign and we ll play this for you, the voice mail, so you can listen to
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to get your own group to vote for it that s a bigger sign. we just did a poll with public opinion strategies, bill made the point that people in the country to a remarkable degree now the democrats [ unintelligible ] people say this bill is bad enough that even with a 60 vote margin in the senate and a big margin in the house you couldn t pass it? so there s an automatic kind of the average person can sense it s too big, to complicated and they distrust politicians. greta: to what extent does this blame the house and senate leaders and the president? who dropped the ball for the party? i think they collectively tried to do something you can t do. i think it is too hard. greta: mr. speaker, thank you. good to be with you. greta: did you see the protesters at the summit? if you didn t you will. griff jenkins has it all on tape only for you. plus our town hall panel.