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Canceling memorial day events. they couldn t scrape together the cash for parades which can cost tens of thousands of dollars. so folks in one city took it upon themselves to make sure to get our fallen heros the recognition they deserve. rick leventhal is live for us in new rochelle, new york. rick? and, trace, memorial day parade has been a long standing tradition here in new row chilly, like many other cities and towns in america money is tight and budgets have to be trimmed. civic celebrations could be the first cut. in the community couldn t raise the 40 grand to pay for the parade and the barbecue, it just wasn t going to happen. the economy has significantly affected our budgets. we raise our money through property taxes and sales taxes and fees the economy has gone down so we have taken a large hit in sales taxes. property market has dropped significantly so property tax revenue has been reduced. with city money going to ....
Bill and says this is what you guys want. we re going to do significant entitlement reforms. we re going to save trillions of dollars over the next generation, and this is what i want in return. i want spending for infrastructure, for education, for r & d, and for the truly disadvantaged. and guess what? over a generation, this actually makes america money. can republicans say well, they can say no to that. yes, they could, and they did. the president talked to john boehner about the grand bargain in the context of the debt ceiling thing was six months ago. and a lot of republicans wanted to play that game, but there are enough republicans who absolutely won t make a deal with the president. what did he put on the table? i believe you d have to ask john boehner that. you re right, there was no bill, no legislation. but even republicans don t deny there was a discussion on the principles of making changes in terms of the retirement age, in ....
It had gadhafi for the last 42 years. it does need, you know, courts that function. it needs rule of law, it needs an oil industry that can export in a non-correct manner. you can do that for very small sums of money. and that s not nation building, that s in america s interest. they ma be preventive work that has to be done in the wake of gadhafi. i ve always said in countries like libya, the united states should participate if it s part of a broad, international coalition. listen, we made a mistake as a country. i made a mistake supporting a war in iraq in 2003 without waiting for the rest of the international community to get onboard. we have learned our lesson. 75% of americans supported iraq, supported afghanistan. we have most americans have learned our lessons. the united states can t shove democracy down other people s throats at the end of a gun. so, yes, if it s part of an international coalition where ....
Let s get in on the ground, there s a lot of money to be made in the future of libya. a lot of oil to be produced. let s get on the ground and help the libyan people establish a democracy and a functioning economy. yeah, let s rebuild another country. because you know what? $2 billion a week in afghanis n afghanistan, it s just not enough. let s spend $2 billion in libya. let s spend $2 billion because, you know, it s kind of like the 50s. we re so flush with money. seriously we re running out we re running massive surpluses. if we don t waste our money trying to rebuild other countries now, when would we do it? there s when would we do it? yes, there are so many different things about this. did you notice the same thing i did? there s also the similar problem that lindsey referenced that a lot of republicans seem to have. giving the president of the united states credit for this. thank you. thank you. ....
Helped the democrats gain nine seats in 2008 and the majority. this year when you look at the 23 races that democrats have to defend in every single major one of those. when there s a senate and democratic incumbent, that incumbent is pulling higher and much higher in some cases than barack obama. putting distance between themselves and the president. you see the democratic senatorial campaign, running $700,000 in ads this early in the race is fairly unprecedented pointing out how independent he is in the senate. a turnout in the economy, and the president has plenty of money he can help with those candidates. but as of right now, you i don t think you ll see a lot of those democratic incumbents asking for obama for a lot of help unless those poll numbers in their states really pick up. weapon even saw some of this on the bus tour this week in north carolina and virginia. some of the congressmen didn t come out to appear with the president. thanks so much, patrick. ....