we re going to after an alternative. it gives us $400 billion over ten years and it increases spending by $1.5 trillion and average $40 billion every year when we re racking up trillion dollar deficits. i don t know how to describe that it s not serious. we re going to purl put up an alternative. if we don t like the direction the president is taking the country, the direction for debt in decline, we owe the country an alternative choice by putting specific solutions on the country, how to reform entitlement spending and how to get the debt under control. just like last year we ll do it this year. so american voters will have a future.
well-connected special interests, get those programs stuck in the budget even though the pentagon says we don t need these particular weapons systems. so we ve begun to cut those out. and secretary gates has found a lot of waste like that and has been able to save us $400 billion so far. i believe we can do that again. $400 billion, even in washington that s real money. that funds a lot of pell grants. [ applause ] that funds a lot of assistance to communities like this one. we ll also reduce health care spending and strengthen medicare and medicaid through some common sense reforms that will get rid of, for example, wasting subsidies to insurance
get these programs stuck in the budget, even though the pentagon says we don t need these particular weapons systems. so we ve begun to cut those out. and secretary gates has found a lot of waste like that and has been able to save us $400 billion so far. i believe we can do that again. $400 billion, even in washington, that s really money. that funds a lot of pell grants. that funds a lot of assistance to communities like this one. we ll also reduce health care spending and strengthen medicare and medicaid through some common sense reforms that will get rid of, for example, wasteful subsidies to insurance companies. reforms that can actually improve care, like make it easier for folks to buy generic
the alan colmes radio show. good to have you here. alan, what is your response to that number, 68% say, he s not doing a good job. let s be clear, his approval ratings are over 50%, and, you are taking one slice here and his approval rating on egypt is doing well and the reserves on the budget deficit when they cost us $400 billion by insisting on keeping tax breaks for billionaires, a rasmussen poll shows by a 41% plurality republicans prefer tax cuts over solving the deficit problem and so they can t act as if they are ahead of the curve on this, and the poll focuses on what how obama does on the deficit, but i don t think the public is thrilled about the republicans and they have shown they don t care about the deficit and want tax cuts rather than taking care of the economy, as you know, the reason they wanted to do that, they felt it frees up that has not worked. martha: hold on, hold on. it never happened the deficit in years. martha: yes, it has.