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"washington journal" is next. . . freeze. the president talked about in his state of the union address last week. you can weigh in on the issue. will it helpçu! or hurt the economy? if you have called us and the last 30 days, give us a chance to phone in this morning. you can also reach us online at çç a tweed @i] twitter.com, c-qspanw it click on our home page, connecting with c-span, facebook, youtube, and other ways as well. çç talkint the 2011 budget. it is thei]çç start of thew3qs on the fiscal year 2011 budget. on the fiscal year 2011 budget. justç briefly for us lay outnbá tricky budgetçó balancing act of gqçççcreatinp addressing mounting concerns about themç deficit. t(this budget is going toç ince a lot of job creation measures, t%oincluding tax incentivesq fr hiring,çó for businesses to hire employees that we saw last week. numerous other tax breaks, it infrastructure. giá&y, what is the most surprising element in the budget for you? guest: the president really laid out a lot of that elements. the freeze and domestic expanding -- historic plea is not that big of the deal, but not force democrats to make hard decisions about what wins and loses. if you freeze domestic spending but you also want to increase infrastructure spending, various programs to going to have to take a hit. host: what about on the revenue side? what does the budget say about taxes? before he wants to extend the 2001, and the 2003 tax cuts for middle-class families but let the tax cut expire for the high tax rate. that is something the republicans have been against from the start. but the democrats say it is a key piece of reining in the deficit. the interesting thing on the deficit as well as much of the heavy lifting is not done in the budget proposal. the white house and congress are now leaning on this debt commission the president said he would create last week, executive order, in order to force reductions in spending and possibly tax increases next year. that is what they are looking to. host: by all accounts, the debt commission, they would have to wait by end of the year to get anything out of that? does that exactly. we may not seeñrovementçmyç ul late in theçóçó year. for instance, on taxes, not sure democrats will even move a tax bill before the election. host: we are covering a lot of events of budget releases. give us a little you were died of what do you think will be sort of the most interesting piece to watch -- defense budget at the white house, state department, where are you looking? guest: some of the most unjust and things will be when omb, budget director peter orszag will talk about how things are supposed to work later today. you will also be saying -- he said yesterday the white house will be proposing to cut about 120 spendingçxd programs from çbudget, to eliminate programs they don'tçç work or can be streamlined. i think that ps where you will see some interesting news on okççwhat they think endicott d what programs will take a hit. host: thank you for joining us this morning. our question for you, again, will the spending freeze help or hurt the economy. a look here at "politico," "wars squeeze obama budget." looking at a "role call." writing that several liberal lawmakers said it will make the proposed freeze is premature. with the economy still on shaky ground and million still unemployed. a quick look at defense news, a publication that covers pentagon spending and pentagon news, few cuts in dod's draft 11 budget. ñrfinal bid to open "the washington times" this morning, their lead editorial, i should say, obama's fake freeze folly. the views of the editorial writers of ""washington times." let's hear from leesburg, virginia, nina on the independent mind. you are on the air. spring lake -- north carolina, barry on the democrats' line. caller: i think it's done properly, that is tomçç say, e of the special interests can -- host: you are on the air. if the special interestsç don't come through and get their hands on the money first. i'm not saying let's give it away to all the people out there, too, i don't want to do that, either. ççwhat we have to do is figurt who really needs it so we can't be giving it to all the corporate people and we can't just give it to all of the people on programs and stuff. host: new york, this is amy. go ahead. good morning, you're on the air. make sure you mute your television or radio. caller: ok. yeah, i would like to know and a spending freeze what cuts and defense are coming if there are any. it seems like everything gets cut, anything that has anything to do with anything humanitarian or the welfare of people or expansion of jobs but defense department is never discussed about getting back, even line item budcá checks on them. if we were just too cutbacks some of this money to be -- being spent, it would be -- the line host: amy, thank you for your comments. here is the headline in "usa today." they go over a couple of top line items -- michigan, randy, on our democrats learned. go ahead with your comments. caller: i would like to thank you very much for c-span. i appreciate it. it is a good show. i think a spending freeze will hurt to. doing it this time with the way the economy is. the bill i thinkñrw3 we shouldwp xdoff the cliff and spend everythingç got? v:çççççççnope. t( butçów3ñrç tot(xznxçt(ç;h#rg time. w3çif you want to make the budt better -- zççfhik4"óoóçxdh÷÷f the books like theiim previous d sq%ei+ let's get intellectually honest about the budget, it looks so bad because the actually brought the sunlight to some of the costs of the previous administration kept in the dark. that is my thought on the deal. thank you very much. ççcaller:çw3 enjoy yourçñr ÷too much money --h money. the spending freeze, notç only should they stop the spending becausexd he raisedç the moneyo highw3/mkogç what the stimulus stimulus and last year, they put so muchççç money into?:oççç it isç/ook like charles krauthr talked about last week in his column, they raised spending 30% or 40% and then put the spending freeze in. even if he put the freeze on spending it would raise like 20% orç 30% from the previous year it he should put theç freezekn and cutw3 likeokçq)ç 30%, firee hundred thousand workers --ççe government needs to wind down and not getw3ç bigger. host: thanks, mario, your views are shared by açç viewerç in [;wçç çççw3x)/zçq çrepublicanç line, dan and kas city. ]ç?knqt caller almost to the word. ?knqt there is nothing else really to say. çthe lady called[kç an ear the only thing authorized by the constitution is the military. and that is the only thing that is authorized. that is the reason why we have a budgetç for the military. host: dan, thankç you for your ç ççthat @9'lççqyçççv:çmì+ secretaryççççikmht gates anl "fsr(rpq& mali. t(çqççphiladelphia, good aftç or good morning. ççit isç dennis, too. got a book wrong. çççççókocaller:çñrççç wd çsituation here. çç uç0%300n corporate bailouts. uç0%300n listw3çt( isñooçt(ç$' liquútd çóç?;so that it is less moneyg in to the government. dö"4qu&eon çççi]simultaneouslyçw3okçe funding in the trillions/0 w3çand on top ofi]çi]ç all oe haveçqç a mass of growing unemployedw3t(xdço4/íçwiokkç permanently unemployedw3ççç # çwe have corporations that are çleaving by the hundreds every year to go over toççw3ç chi|ç w3çcentralymoy?7vñgnç ameria andç so forth. ç;ç the government. sq%ei+ çççoknow your comments on hoa çappliesç>çkç tot(ç the b3 spending. çóççmore e" more[çóoó monevçp this$h)ñááer(tt(ççtmeanwhilóoh as more money going out, no money coming in. not as much money coming in wmoçthrough workers paying taxd it is gettingççç theç govert into debt. to tell you the truth, of m now is failing. okw#kçu!capitalism[çóç, bee corporations arew3i] running am çthen if it tries welfare capitalism, which is propping up social programs, trying to prop up the people to give the money so they go out and spend, that is going to put the government into debt. so we have a serious, serious problem here. host: thanks for the input. here is the front page of "the washington post." the lead story on the budget. obama budget callsxdt( for jobsl and tax changes. but i have a chart on the numbers. i will read you a bitç from article this morning as well. çw3 t(ççç greenville,ç ohio, dawn on our independent line. caller: i don't promote -- believe it will really hurt or help. it is going to be a small amount. qç&jbeing the president is tho of the united statesç, itç wod make a bigçç impression onçe if they would takei] a 10% cut right from the president down to the very low-paying government jobs. and i thank you very much. host: detroit, next up, republican collar. itç caller:xdçw3 i risk theyd address the cost overruns in the military budget. theseç people take out contracs and they run up billions overhk what is a contract? i]t(the otherçi] thing, on the military, where areç all the nuclear weapons fundedi]ñruñ isn'tqbrçw3 that in the energy department bill? the military spreading things out how -- hiding all of their money andmy just wasting so mucq w3otoki]çhost:ççmçt( on then particular, and little bit more from inside "defenses."w3( ççhelicopter manufacturers loo also they talkqw3 about what the policies of the pentagon is going to date. cards with today's release of the budget, the pentagon will release, unveil their xdquadrennial defense review tht lays out their strategy, a broad strategy for the pentagon for least the past -- next four years. the 2011 budget willçóççç car $6.3 billionç for special operationsw3çççó command, wase summer because a 6% those from its fiscal year. çthatçço[ funds will buy newd communication systems to improve existing ones. about half an hour or so more of your calls on the focus on the budget this year. the spending freeze, will it help or hurt the economy? we will take your calls. north carolina, bill, democrat collar. caller: china must be giving us stupid medication in the food the ascending here. we are spending $300 billion a year and two wars on people don't even like us who don't even have nothing in common, trying to rebuild these people's nations and roads and stuff and when it comes to $100 billion a year for health care we cannot do that and we are arguing about it. the first thing we should do is get out of these wars. it is not doing no good. and one more thing i need to say. i think that is why the people were very disappointed with obama, is that we could not get out of those, but we understand the military industrial complex is very, very powerful and something needs to be done about it. the american people really needs to come together. and i have a suggestion, if you let me say one thing, sir. host: go ahead. of a cut -- caller: let me explain this and i would like you to critique -- host: just keep it brief, bill. a lot of people want to wait and. give us the 32nd version. caller: i think the american people need to come together. there is such a thing called early voting. we know who all the voters all -- all the voters are. it we rode everyone and s been to vote of congress out you will get 80% saying " yes. once they sign the contract all we have to do is make sure whether a% before the tournament. once we get a% we know what the elections. as long as we have the people of their better up there, sold out to special interests, to aipac, different nations. it takes too long to get them out the way the system is set up now because you could only vote like every other year and it will take forever and then you've got the media. host: @ thank you, bill, thank you for checking in. keeping this segment focus on the budget. here is what "roll call" talking about. they quote congressman conyers in here. t j e in dallas, good morning, on our independent line. caller:çç thank you for " washington journal." çthis has become soçt(ç part regarding theuejtyqnbç atççt starting somethingç becauseç ç we heard almostçq nothingt( abt he raised the debt ceilingç twicexd. t(çi do remember when dick chey mentioned the deficit was no bik the producers at c-spanç çg#çñçofi]ok rec'doççuju negat been listeningç to c-span fork years and youçóçóxd used to havn informative people on and now you have just becomeç a red met situation where people can call of the congressokçççui] peop, everything is just so horrible and i just wonderçt(çw3 if yog t(cwepeople whatw3çskind of --] çyour finger over again. nçyour finger over again. spewing a lot of negativism and hates about the budget and everything else and of coursew3- xdokif he offered everybodyç a million dollars, b"body would say. a pretty major story with the release of the budget andçxdçe generally cover it every year, and this morning trying to give it a look from all sides. thank you for calling this morning. 40% higher than the average american. where are they going to go for a job? give them a pay cut and we are going to balance the budget a lot easier. thank you very much. ççhost: here is the story of r çvieweva?edt5i]çxd was talkin oç]iiñçor call forn proposal in france, in their budget. qç ççççççqça jz3 newç mexico, andvçw3ççokçó, good morning to build. çç;omzçi]yoççi]çi]8(ñhéçc i think the defenseç[ç budgets to be cut. w3 ççmviyç÷dçqç butt(od [ñççw3qproducers, weapons pr çand that is thew3 biggest corporations there is in the world,ç pushing guns. i]ñrso, iu!i] think defense neee cut. also on your next segment -- independent said on defense. q%ç" scope " the washington p" b bu get plansé]ñóok sun setsççç ony>zg3 nasa md decommissioned. uzi]ç[6w3 o bemoan, built on george w. bush was a mission of an ambitious new chapter in space exploration is about to vanishç withu!fáçy a winter. with the release monday of president obama's budget request nasa will finally get the new administration marching orders and will not be anything in there about flying to the moonñvçó73ç. the budget numbers will show that the administration effectively plans to kill a constellation program that called for a return to the moon by 2020. t(michigan, georgia on our republican line. good morning. caller: this has been the biggest spendingçç spree in american history. oka $787 billion stimulus, $30 billion expansion of job health care program, $410 billion spending bill that increase non discretionary spending 10% in the last half of 2009, and height non-defense discretionary spending another 12% in fiscal year 2010. so, to freeze that now after hiking a 10% and 12% means nothing. consider this -- george bush in his eight yearsq brought the national debt from $3 trillion up to $6.30 trillion, obama is putting as much on the debt in 20 months asdum!"tç in eight years and he is going to double in five years and tripled in 10 years. look at thexdç piven strategy d ask yourself why obama want releases these is our college ridings. he is trying to create a fiscal crisis in thisç country and its a piece scary situation -- clowardç piven, look up. caller: good morning. s mccall's already talked about, -- as some of the calls already talked about, he increase the budget of the past year that he had to do and he is finding hard ways to stop the spending at this point. çhe put a freeze on that. unfortunately heçç had to rait last year. at this point, he has kind of got his hands tied with the war. he probably wants to get out of there unless he found the intelligence that told him he should not getko out of there. his plan was to leave. so his hands are tied on that. if we had an issue back home domestically, there would be a big problem with that. he would have a problem getting reelected. the one thing george bush was able to do. so therefore we can't find ways to get new taxes to bring revenue into the government and we can't seem to stop spending ñpçso we are having a ribeau wih it. to buy. + and looking at the white house released on the budget for this year, the warçó spendingçó is ad the budget, close to $160 billionç for more spending in u!ççfiscal year 2011. çnext up, chicago, march on our democrats line. çñdoíoçcaller: good morning. i think the freeze will hurt because usually they freeze things that go to the people. but i want to give an example of two things where politicians on all sides, and i hope mayor daley -- i am calling from chicago -- making the people the press. one thing is last week they put the stimulunçqçw3çxdçñk abod rail, how it will help chicago, la la la. meanwhile we did theçok ctaç, desperately. host: the cta is your local transit authority? caller: yes, let the subway in new york. what they just had all kinds of layoffs and service delays. cutting and cutting. yet they announce a stimulus plan for high-speed rail. what we need, the un and put people in chicago, and to make the city run, that money to start first for the regular people. that is what the of going to start freezing. the second franken on this thing with haiti, you need to pay attention -- the second thing, this thing with haiti you need to pay attention of health care, they cannot come from money. florida and georgia refused kidney dialysis on medicaid patients. why don't we start not freezing that. that is a death sentence. tell them to go to the e are paired we are being nice to patients because we don't want them here. say you are bringing in $500 a week and spending 1500, still a bad thing and we need to figure out how to stop the spending. what you doing? i think there is a lot of double standard with this president. the media doesn't seem to report everything that is going on. i remember when bush was president every single day you had a number of the people who were killed in afghanistan and iraq and what happened to that? we need to not have a double standard but give equal time to good and bad things. host: the independent line, california, mike. you are on the air. caller: good morning. i'm against the spending, the freeze. i tell you why. we are spending entirely too much money on the wars. we are creating enemies. we are creating terrorists. when we go about fighting terrorism -- dropped food and the people. why not bombs? that is just going to create hates. i live in sacramento, a state worker. i received three furlough days and 50% pay cut. i am losing my home and about to get laid off and we are spending $1 trillion on killing people in afghanistan who live in a dirt mound. it is time america wakes up and stop listening to this mainstream media because it is destroying our families and our country and we are spending all this money on killing people. host: elizabeth city, north carolina, nicole on our democrats line. caller: our problem is a simple problem. this is the result of the iraq war and afghanistan war. all you've got to do is just stop the war and get rid of one airplane and one of ship and that would be enough for us to make it. what do you think? host: get rid of the entire programs? f-35? explain yourself. caller: 1 warship, we got them in the making, eliminate the making of one warship, eliminate the making of one airplane. how much would that saved? host: let me show you -- i will let you go, thanks for your comment. a little bit from "defense news." what will get an increase is the predators. the big winner. a pick -- picture of one of the pr