a pentagon study has concluded the pent go can lift the ban to openly serving gays risk. in addition, the post says more than 70% of respondents surveyed sent to active duty and reserve troops said the effect of repealing don t ask, don t tell would be positive, mixed or nonexistent. those results led the authors to conclude that objections to openly gay colleagues would drop once troops were able to live and serve alongside them. in washington, the unwelcome task is being faced of slashing the budget deficit. among proposals, tax hikes, medicare cuts and raising the retirement age. kristin dahlgren has more from us live. good morning, veronica, cuts in taxes increases, a couple of controversial proposals by this so-called deficit commission, nowochairs unveiled the ideas yesterday to bring $4 trillion in deficit deductions by 2020. they called debt a cancer that needs to be fixed. the proposals were immediately attacked by both the left and the right in washington. speer
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