opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america s finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years. if we re willing to seize the moment. what that would require would be some shared sacrifice and a balanced approach that says we re going to make significant cuts in domestic spending. and i have already said i m willing to take down domestic spending to the lowest percentage of our overall economy since dwight eisenhower. it also requires cuts in defense spending. and i ve said that in addition to the $400 billion that we ve already cut from defense spending we re willing to look for hundreds of billions more. it would require us taking on health care spending. and that includes looking at medicare and finding ways that we can stabilize the system so that it is available not just for this generation but for future generations. and it would require revenues. it would require, even as we re asking the person who needs a student loan or the senior citizen o
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also we re near the end of a very bloody month in the afgh afghanistan war. petraeus is going to go before senators tomorrow, hoping to be confirmed as the new war commander. he may pale in comparison to the damages that he could face in the weeks and months ahead. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr, she is here with a preview in what this means. hey, barbara. a lot of pleem tell you, the biggest challenge for general petraeus may be trying to show the senators he can make progress in the war. coalition forces talk again with local afghan leaders. four months ago, they promised to bring security to this area, but the taliban are still here
to end a career like mcchrystal s? michael hastings has never served his country the way mcchrystal has. is this going to prompt the military in general, the commanders in afghanistan in particular, to be more wary of journalists? of course. because you what you see is not what you get. clearly you ve got someone who is making friends with you, pretending to be sympathetic and then take what you say. when you start an article with general mcchrystal making obscene gestures, you aren t evenution something he said. rolling stone magazine put their own spin on this. nowhere in the article does he reforethe wimps in afghanistan. that s how rolling stone chose to cast this. that was with intent. after president obama surprised people by first relieving general mcchrystal of his command and then hiring general david petraeus, hiring him in a sense of making him the afghan war commander. bill o reilly on his fox news show played a clip some clips
funding from bp and all of the institutions are engaged in developing proposals and research projects to go assess the impact of this horrible tox i toxic plume. thank goodness. a gem of the gulf coast, you gays are busy these days. good luck. thank you. we re very busy and redistracted with this but it s very important work for sure. shepard: i ll say. moten marine laboratories, google it. appreciate your time. thank you. the oil spilling in the gulf, fairing of the war commander in afghanistan, the still slumping unemployment. housing problems, what heck of a week for the folks in the white house. fox news sunday s chris wallace on what needs to happen next week when he makes his regular