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This. we are bankrupting future generations. we all know that. the president knows that, and you said in your lead that he brokered a deal. i ve got to be honest, chris. he s been awol. he s been awol until this last week on this on these on these continuing resolution negotiations. remember, we re doing right now what the democratic party didn t do last year. they did not pass a budget. why? i think because they were embarrassed by how big the numbers are. we ve got the american people sent us here to cuts, and after this fight is over, there s going to be a genuine fight on the debt ceiling and the budget. we re where the dollars are going to be big. congressman grijalva, i ll let you respond in a second. one more follow-up, congressman walsh. when you say that we re ç bankrupting future generations, which i don t agree, but let s put that aside. i don t know how you can t, chris. ....
The cause of the problem didn t equal equally, be created by the poor. what who did cause that problem then? some of the people who are going to benefit. for example, if we re talking about shutting down fannie mae and freddie mac, then the wall street barons who caused this collapse should be parties because they re not going to end up handling the mortgage financing around the country and become even more wealthy. all right. congressman grijalva, you know, the president is also saying he s investing in education. allotting almost $80 billion to the department and nearly 7% increase for kindergarten through high school education. is that not also addressing what hard-working americans want? no. no question. those investments are important and necessary. it s the opposite. it s where the cuts are being made, the freeze of domestic spending over five years is not going to be healthy for this nation but for the people who need it the most. the cuts that chairman cleaver ....
Medicaid. those are some areas that we ve got to deal with. look, we gave a huge tax cut just before christmas to multimillionaires. and that has put us in this crisis situation. if we had not done that, we d have an opportunity to provide some relief to the poor in this upcoming budget. what we ve got to think about doing is reducing the amount of money we are spending for the military. the congress is stupidly spending money that the air force has said they didn t even want us to spend. and we ve got to get away from that. we can cut the military spending and reduce the pain that will fall on the people who are already vulnerable. and the president has also moved for a $78 billion cut though, congressman cleaver, over five years. the final question to congressman grijalva. i wanted to ask this it has been said that a bipartisan approach, a spirit should be had at this moment. is that what the president is doing right now? ....
Isn t he encapsulating that view by going down the middle with his budget? yeah. he s trying to find middle ground. and as long as, i said earlier, and i m going to continue to harp this point, until you deal with revenue generation for the federal budget we are always going to be talking about cuts. we re always going to be talking about reductions to a very limited amount of the budget which is domestic spending, which is less than 20%. we cannot sustain, nor can you balance the budget off the backs of those programs. it s impossible without generating revenue. it is budget day on the hill. congressman cleaver and congressman gravel athank you very much grijalva, thank you for stopping by. will john edwards be indicted for more than a million dollars he used to cover up his affair? and chris may be on assignment, but she s tweeting. keep up with her on twitter. ....
Nothing to cause our economic problems is not the right way to go. now i m joined by congressman cleaver and congressmen cleaver and grijalva, thank you very much for joining us on this tuesday morning. sure. good to be here with you. thank you. congressman cleaver, let me start with you. president obama s cutting programs close to his own history. what he cares about, shall we say, you know, community development block grants which go to struggling urban areas. he s cutting those in half. he was a community organizer, as you both know, and is proud of that. by cutting that which is so close to him, does that not show that he s spreading the pain here? well, yes. and i think the president was forced to make cuts that are uncomfortable. but understand that the cause for the economic near collapse was not caused by the people who will be hurt through cutting the community development block grant program, for example. i don t think that we should be about the business of saying ....