democrats have really taken steps to be more responsible. we re working under a pay-go system. pay as you go. albeit there are some items that are cut off from that portion of it. we are attempting to bring back a system that was proven to get our budgets in order. to really under the clinton administration, really just bring back morphas cal responsible congress, more responsible government. it has worked in the past. i think it will work in the future. the president said he wants to cut the deficit in half. i want to help him do that. are you comfortable with a proposal to eliminate the $250,000 and above tax cut. i can tell you in my district, there are very few people who make more than that money, just a gross income of $250,000 or more. and i think to live in the greatest country the world has ever known, it s a small price to pay. let me ask you congressman ryan, you have no problem defending kax cuts for people who make over $250,000 a year? small businesses. go to wi
democrats have really taken steps to be more responsible. we re working under a pay-go system. pay as you go. albeit there are some items that are cut off from that portion of it. we are raemting to bring back a system that was proven to get our budgets in order. to really under the clinton administration really just bring back more fiscal responsible congress and more responsible government. it has worked in the past. i think it will work in the future. the president said he wants to cut the deficit in half. i want to help him do that. are you comfortable with a proposal to eliminate the $250,000 and above tax cut. i can tell you in my district, there are very few people 0 who make more than that. and i think to live in the greatest country the world has ever known, it s a small price to pay. congressman ryan, you have no problems defending tax cuts for people who make over $250,000 a year. small businesses. go to wisconsin.
the american people rejected that in the election of barack obama. democrats have taken steps to be more responsible. we re working under a pay-go system. pay as yo go. some items are cut off from that portion of it. we are attempting to get back a system prove on the get our budgets in order. under the clinton administration really bring back more responsible government. it has worked in the past. i think it will work in the future. the president said he wants to cut the deficit in half. are you comfortable with a proposal to eliminate the $250,000 and above tax cut. in my district, it s very little people. to live in the greatest country the world has ever known, it s a small price to pay.
our economy. this is a good way to inject quick stimulus. it s not the solution but it s a small solution and the republicans are showing that they are totally out of touch with the realities of the economy and more importantly they just don t get the fundamentals of the economy and how it works right now. that is a good argument for democrats to be making. megyn: senator lindsey graham who is no conservative, he s one of the more moderate republicans came out and he was against extending these $34 billion without paying for it, saying there is plenty of room in this 3 trillion-dollar budget to find 34 billion to help the unemployed and echoing the theme that they do want to help the unemployed these republicans but they don t want to to do it if we re not going to pay for it. first of all let s remember that was explicitly barack obama s position back in november when the economy was in fact worse. he said that we had to have a pay-go system with these kind of things. we have to pay
with their own plan which would, on the one hand. provide some money to state and local governments and also, there s more money here, not just 50 billion dollars, there s also another 20 plus billion dollars to extend unemployment benefits, but they would match this or the pay go system by cutting federal spending in other areas. and the republicans think that going against government spending, going against this increasing deficit is very much a political winner for them. and of course, if the unemployment rate stays high and i don t mean at that they re completely callous in this regard. i think they figure the democrats or president are going to get most of the blame for that. mitch mcconnell, even in the face of outrage, democrats are showing either that they just don t get it on the issue of the debt or just don t care. root now among other challenges, we have a debt crisis, a jobs crisis, a housing crisis, a financial crisis and an oil spill that the american people clearly