rate or boy not dealing with the deficit. they re very much interrelated. how do you match? senator coburn take a look how you match the two. respectfully you re wrong, about 20% holding hostage. 24r50e69 at least on the conservative and republican side, toomey s plan, ryan s plan. where s nancy pelosi s plan and barack obama s plan? one more point. there s a plan out in. people s budget. cutting $5. trillion over the course of in the senate, that s not republicans. the plan 97 listen, i m not a democratic senator. you asked is there a plan out there to do it. there is one. let s break this back in two. chew off one thing at a time. let s stick with jobs and debt now and come back for democrats and republicans later. a solution was laid out will. it s not the president s budget voted down 97-0.
yet we are trying to make them pay for mistakes that happen. i don t know if that s fair. is that what s happening? i think it is. can anyone say today s seniors are going to be impacted greatly and tremendously by what the white house is putting forward? nobody is paying for the wars. the question for the congressman is we have this massive debt. i m not sure i understood how you would close the gab. what would be your proposal to deal with the deficit? let s start with clinton tax rates. this is a time america was very prosperous. get us out of the wars at an accelerated rate. let medicare drop rates. get a public option which is a saver. according to the people s budget, which is progressive caucus introduced, balance the budget by 2021.
i wouldn t disagree with you, i would point out what we have done in these countries in terms of killing civilians has fueled the feeling against this country. you need a voice with broader reach than ron paul. it does, needs a voice from the top. very fascinating, jon huntsman is saying things, republican candidates, mainstream republican candidates. many in the democratic party who don t get a hearing like ron paul, many. i admire dennis kucinich, he and ron paul have been out there mothers the progressive caucus whose people s budget is humane and speaks to a different approach to the military footing of this country. they need attention. the media needs to give them attention. katrina vanden heuvel, thank you very much. great conversation, you guys, be right back with more morning joe. too much on your plate?
there s no reason to be in libya, we should be getting out of afghanistan faster and he s going to embrace the republican conservatives argument on the budget. military spending should be on the table including base closur closures. how does huntsman navigate his criticism of showing respect of him in the past. it s going to be tough. it s going to be one of his biggest hurdles with the republicans. the huntsman team and obama team think a huntsman-obama match up would be great. how do you get dl? it s a narrow passage for jon huntsman. you put your finger on it, he s going to make it a positive, he was serving a country, not barack obama as a person. he s got more moderate views, helps the republican party, not hurts it.
here, but the debt crisis, if politicians in washington don t act responsibly, this is our future. this is our future. we are mortgaging our future. we are saddling this on our future. somebody has to pay the bills. the greece are forced to deal with it. we are still going along business as usual. why do you say there won t be rioting in the streets. there may be. i don t think so. in greece, you are talking of cutting $1.7 trillion a year out of the budget. all these changes, if we act now, we don t have to go that famplt we can do it more incrementally. if we wait until greece still ahead, new york times business columnist, andrew ross sorkin. first, willie, what do you have