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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20111105



i know you are hoping to avoid a question, but we see you there. there was a video yesterday comparing mitt romney to a weather vane, and this is a far cry from where he started out a few months ago. he promised to be the candidate of stability, would not attack others. what happened? let s see first, i am the policy director for the campaign, not strategy, but i think it needs to be pointed out that there has been some shifting of positions as it relates to governor romney and it is important for each of the candidates to maintain a level of consistency in their positions so that it gives the voters the opportunity to make a good assessment on who they want to vote for instead of getting in the position of not being quite sure what each candidate has a position on the specific issues are. to follow-up on that, and this is more corps policy, you all have presented yourselves as the mainstream candidate. does this seem to be the right time for that message? voters ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Capital News Today 20111102



quoted is not the amount of money that has been deducted from the social security trust fund. in the accounting sense what has been deducted from the social security trust fund is the benefits that have been paid and the social security trust fund has been credited for the payroll taxes that have been paid. the perspective on the other numbers you quoted, although war , the spending is not 2 trillion a year is less than 200 billion a year, actually more like about 100 billion a year or maybe even a little bit less than that. host: the 2 trillion figure comes from total cost over the years? guest: i would be ten years worth of assuming that we are not going to draw down the current level of activity as has been anticipated to happen but even at current rates i even looked at that number recently, but the budgetary cost of the war is i believe only about $100 billion the total defense is about 6 billion and malt all of that is devoted to the war that is the standing f ....

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