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That there are one time savings where you really have two choices. You can either use that money to reduce the deficit which is a la laudable objective so we dont discredit that as an objective or use it for one time expenses. What you cant do is lower rates as if the one time savings is genuine forever because you would in the next period of time be losing revenue. Thats why the president proposed pairing Business Tax Reform with an infrastructure initiative. I think there is the basis there where youve seen proposals on both sides that have elements of agreement. I think that its something the more we talk about across party lines and with each other the more we have an opportunity to get something important done. Very good. Senator thune. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Secretary lew, nice to have you here. Welcome back. I also want to welcome our new chairman and really look forward to working with him. As chairman wyden mentioned we worked together on a number of issues, Digital Goods an
Sequestration. Over 650,000 furloughs begin today for civilian workers. This morning, we want to hear your reaction and your thoughts on sequestrations impact on the military. We have a special phone line open for Defense Department employees. Otherwise, the rest of the numbers arent your screen. Are on your screen. You can also catch up with us and all your favorite social media pages. Or you can email us. A very good monday morning to you. Congress is back in session this week but also today, 650,000 civilian defense workers are set to begin their furloughs. Want to hear from you. We have a line open for dod employees. We want to hear how sequestration is impacting you. Our other phone lines are open but lets start with this story from the Washington Post. We will be covering that story in our first 45 minutes. The phone lines are open to get your thoughts on the matter. Let me read you a bit of the letter that secretary hagel sent to the department of defense staffers at of these fu
The decline of optimism, some economists say. We want to get your thoughts on the unemployment number and if you are optimistic about the job market. If you are under 30 reach out to us on social media, cspanwj is how you do that on twitter. Journal cspan. Org is our email. To read you the headline from the pittsburgh postgazette post quote postgazette optimism is the subject of todays opinion pages of the wall street journal . Again, your thoughts on the economy, especially in light of these new numbers, with the federal Unemployment Rate at seven percent. In. Ere is how you can call we divided the lines differently. If you are under 30 it is discussions about the economy that takeover the papers today, especially in light of these new numbers. Here is the editorial page of the new york times. They have a different take we start this morning in jacksonville florida. Angel is up. Good morning, what do you think about the economy in light of these current numbers . Good morning. First o
Cutting it back. Rex thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and thank you to the chairman. I went to my times of thank you for allowing me to do so. That concludes our first round of questions. We will go to one followup per side. Dr. Burgess will begin with five minutes of followup. I wanted to followup with talkingff we were about. There is a crisis of confidence. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on a raft of us premises. You can keep your plan, false. You can keep your doctor, false. These are broken promises and easily the opportunity cost that americans are paying for for the a quarter will Affordable Care act. There was a promise made to seniors. Medicarese your dollars as a payee bank and we will improve medicare and allow seniors to keep their doctors if they like. Do you have an opinion as to whether or not this was another row can promise . It is. Fixable . Sical it is the problem. Should be a medicare damage in the ways we described earlier. Their promises.