these insurance companies have with this health care and legislative system. we pay more money for health care than anyone where else in the world. we have all of these false mechanisms that are getting in the way of a more free market approach. on medicare and medicaid, there s a pretty incredible report about a meeting earlier this week where mitch mcconnell took rob portman to task and said when you were omb director, you were all about fixing entitlements, where are you now? how can you say you can allow medicare to grow? rob portman says this is preposterous, you re just taking medicaid away from 750,000 in my state and not fixes the problem of medicare and medicaid.
security. fixing entitlements and balancing our budgets, not our issues, but through polling, these are the big issues that the american people want done. so choose one of those issues. we should include in that group. one was governor o malley, running for the democratic president. what do you think it is that stops these guys? what is it that stops these guys? the base that says don t compromise? don t yield, don t talk? what? it s because we ve gotten out of the habit of governing by goals. remember we used to govern by goals when ronald reagan and tip o neill used to run things? they did tax reform and medicare and social security. we both remember that, neil. i know that you remember that well. and bill clinton and speaker begin grish, they balance the budget. they set a goal, they govern through different pathways to get there. but they ultimately got to that goal. we don t set goals any more. so the six candidates basically
we re talking about fixing entitlements and roland said fix the knicks? joining us now, matt lewis. weighing in on the eric garner case. writing in part there might be a temptation to play up the racial aspect of this case and that would be easy to do. i suspect it wouldn t be the right approach. first, of course, there is really no direct evidence as far as i know to buttress this. second it would probably just push pundits and politicians into their respective corners. lastly while i have no doubt african-americans are abused by police far more often whites should not kid themselves and think it would never happen to their sons. could it. your white son mouths off to a police officer could he not end up like garner? i don t know where to begin with
we have and negative cash flow is deficits and revenue not being in balance. we can make the issue centered around the debt limit. that s not the b problem. the issue is we are spend ing more than we take in. that s where we ought to to the attention. fixing entitlements. we are 13 days out. the estimate is the 17th we hit the ceiling. while congress is squawking about the battle over the resolution, the clock is ticking on the debt ceiling. why didn t you work earlier on oh it? you should work this weekend on it, i might add. why isn t the debt ceiling or is it talked about now? you are seeing them merge now. the continuinging resolution and the debt ceiling are moving away from obama care to the debt limit and broader fiscal problems. over two weeks ago i sent a dear colleague to every republican member of congress and said let s stop kicking the can down the road.
we have and negative cash flow is deficits and revenue not being in balance. we can make the issue centered around the debt limit. that s not the b problem. the issue is we are spend ing more than we take in. that s where we ought to to the attention. fixing entitlements. we are 13 days out. the estimate is the 17th we hit the ceiling. while congress is squawking about the battle over the resolution, the clock is ticking on the debt ceiling. why didn t you work earlier on oh it? you should work this weekend on it, i might add. why isn t the debt ceiling or is it talked about now? you are seeing them merge now. the continuinging resolution and the debt ceiling are moving away from obama care to the debt limit and broader fiscal problems. over two weeks ago i sent a dear colleague to every republican member of congress and said let s stop kicking the can down the road.