Cost of servicing the debt will increase so quickly and so much that we could very well find yourself in a situation where the current, what we were added to changes vary dramatically. And we can talk about this further if we had the chance. Process alone is not the solution to the problem. You do need policy agreement to make the thing work. However, i think it is important to understand that the policy process can be an important agreement in keeping things on track as we move further. I agree with dave obey if you cant solve the problem, to which you can do. We used to say that back in the 1980s and he was director of cbo. There is one other thing we have to take into context. The budget problem we have now is so large that we make it to the point where we have to deal with fundamental changes in policy rather than simple incremental changes. It may not be possible to shave a little bit off of medicare reimbursement. We have to think very seriously about changing the way the process
But as we noticed today, there are no votes on the United States congress and the house of representatives today. We also agree, and emphasize this again, as did Gene Sperling everyone, and we mean everyone, should get 250,000 ineveryone and so that means that even billionaires get that first 250,000. And everyone is in agreement the republicans do not want to see the middle class go without this tax cut. So where we disagree, let us push that off. Where we agree, lets embrace. Further, we discussed again the long term effects of our deficit, which are directly tied to health care the work that has been done in the congress as it relates to constructing and exchange that will take place in 2014 and go into effect, and the tools that we provided a initially on a concept that by its very nature was one designed by republicans, that there is ample room for us to tackle the unbelievable rise in cost of health care to 17 of our Gross Domestic Product by focusing on dropping those costs. Mos
0 it s a lot more complicated. that guy you thought was the good guy, he s been tracking your phone calls and e-mails. and the rag tag team coming together to save the world. yeah, well, the allegedly bipartisan senate immigration bill is skating on increasingly thin ice over in the house. the powerful, dedicating their lives to helping the weak. have you seen congress lately? the question isn t whether to cut benefits that millions of people, many of them children, depend on to eat, it s by how much. to be honest, even our movies aren t that simple anymore. zod may be hell bent on destroying humanity, but that s because he has a single minded devotion to saving his people. superman struggles how and when to use his powers. batman, ironman, superman, that reflects our world. we know so much more about our leaders, so much more quickly than we used to. we even know that the best are not blameless. they re not pure good. but if you ask me, a more complicated story is ultimately a better