to much. basically, the next fight is continuing i don t see a big, nothing much changes on march 1. it continues all the way through the end of march. i would say the white house campaign is more sophisticated than just talking about corporate jets. on sunday afternoon, they had a conference call for reporters and they rolled out the state-by-state analysis. of what all would be cut. you know, chirp off head start, education cut. you know, drug programs, law enforcement, military. all sorts of cuts. embargoed it to 8:00 p.m. and the papers could get it out in the morning edition. all across the country on monday. local papers, all across the country in every state, big stories usually on the front page about what is going to be cut locally. good play. bret: that is it for panel. stay tune for tip for certain group of folks. this is so sick!
the president should be doing is getting out to the american people and putting the republicans on the defensive, going into their states and saying do you want to see pell grants and education cut, health care cut, education cut, or should those people with huge amounts of money be asked to pay more? if he goes out to the people, i think he can change the dynamic of this debate. right now, the people are on our side, on the side of shared sacrifice, not balancing the budget on the weak and vulnerable. seems there is a mixed message from the right, mr. boehner admitted they d be in jeopardy in the debt limit is not raised. that s a far dry from what he said ten days ago. take a listen at this. dealing with this debt problem is far more important than meeting some artificial date created by the treasury secretary. we cannot miss this opportunity. if we want jobs to come to america, we have to give
how does this work for regular americans, my friend? i m trying to figure it out but for me, the math is woolly, not just fuzzy. eric, you have to look at the plan that was introduced by the republican colleagues. the majority of the house. raid on the middle class. cutting domestic programs, only domestic programs. it impacts the young with the education cut, seniors with the healthcare cut. veterans, working families and small business. so it was not the sort of investment we need to move forward they were avoiding several of the other issues like going out and eric: representative, allow me. i apologize for cutting you off, sir. here it was. billed as going to be specifics deficit reduction plan. we have thought we were going to be filled with numbers and go exactly where the cuts were going going to see where the cults were being made. the only cut we can sink our teeth into and understand plain as day is the defense
budget committee. how does this work for regular americans, my friend? i m trying to figure it out but for me, the math is woolly, not just fuzzy. eric, you have to look at the plan that was introduced by the republican colleagues. the majority of the house. raid on the middle class. cutting domestic programs, only domestic programs. it impacts the young with the education cut, seniors with the healthcare cut. veterans, working families and small business. so it was not the sort of investment we need to move forward they were avoiding several of the other issues like going out and eric: representative, allow me. i apologize for cutting you off, sir. here it was. billed as going to be specifics deficit reduction plan. we have thought we were going to be filled with numbers and go exactly where the cuts were going going to see where the cults were being made. the only cut we can sink our teeth into and understand
it to the incredible pushback we ve seen in the uk, in britain to another anti-democratic attempt to push through very unpopular austerity measures by a coalition government that does not elected to do this. and what you see in britain is is a very clear attempt to not only say okay, we don t want our education cut, we don t want our health care cut, which is happening, but more importantly, uk uncut, which is now spreading to the u.s. has cropped up and they re planning actions on february 26. and what they re doing is going after the corporations that are flot paying their taxes. they re going after the tax dodgers directly at their store fronts. companies like vodofone. today, big protests against barclays bank. and showed if these corporations paid their taxes, you wouldn t have to be gutting public services. i think that in terms of resisting the shock doctrine, you have to have your own story to resist the panic story being sold to you. and that s really key.