going to have to talk about inequality, democrats are going to have to talk about inequality. the biggest issue with the economy and middle class voters. minimum wage is the perfect issue to run on for democrats. you take polls about minimum wage, 58% of republicans are for minimum wage, the ballot initiative cleared new jersey by a huge margin. i think that s going to be a sleeper issue for any democrat should run on that. i think republicans are going to need to find a policy that speaks to the middle class and speaks to inequality. whatever that may be. just find one. right now it s rolling back aca is the only economic policy of the party and that s not going to fly. kacey, i have to say, if hillary clinton decides to embrace, wrap her arms on income equality, some on the left would say bill clinton didn t have a progressive monetary policy. aides lot of things that angered democrats, vis-a-vis the social safety net.
involved with the campaign to fix the debt and i think that there is also a half-truth out there that democrats somehow don t realize that down the road, we acknowledge something needs to happen vis-a-vis the social safety net, whether turning it into a voucher program or block grant to the states, is another matter. there s not a lack of recognition about the path that we are on. the timeline and the heens to the end are i think what is at the heart of the debate. i think we do have in our party, my party, too many people who are just flat-out debt deniers. the point josh made is the right one. it s not balanced budget, it s debt as percentage of gop. if we let debt get to 90, 9 5%, we re a european nation and we re going down the tubes fast. that s number one. number two, we ve got to drive debt down between 70 and 60% of gop. we don t have to do it in the next year or two and simpson-bowles doesn t recommend that. they recommend that the debt reduction gets phased in in the
they re calling entitlement reform. what it means is people back the social safety net. it s paul ryan s singular obsession, privatize it, shrink it or make elderly poor people pay for their own health care. it depends which one do they want more. i think that republicans would accept some closing of loopholes if they could get at the white whale of medicare and get grandma to pay a little more. i wonder if his singular obsession, i always thought his singular obsession was p-90 x. november 7th, 1991, saw a confession that changed the political and cultural landscape and altered the course of a national health crisis, the impact of magic johnson s hiv announcement 22 years later when he joins us live just ahead. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter.