Have to be 1% of anything if you re 2% something else. i introduced a budget that would balance in five years but spent above the military sequester. so you can say that, well defending the country is a priority, we ll cut 10% of something, or like in this case i would cut 100% of corporate welfare. every last bit of it. all right. let s talk about the top five things if you re elected president you guys want to elect him president? [ cheers and applause ] the top five agenda item president paul! president paul! president paul! all right. top five agenda items. i think in the number i think the number one priority of the federal government always is to be defend the country from foreign attack. we have to defend our country. it s one thing you can t do in illinois or wisconsin but i
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Now, for the record, only 19 categories of the pew polled are discretionary, others are categories where congressional republicans want to see reduced spending. cuts to entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid, that is what john boehner wanted from the white house in exchange from the tax rest in the grand bargain. that is a top priority. and why if you listen to the debate very closely, if you listen to what john boehner is actually saying you may hear president obama talking a lot about his alternative. but you hear the republicans, you hear john boehner talking a lot about number one, how the sequester was barack obama s idea, they very cleverly called the obama-quester. how they don t mind at all. it is their leverage, they can handle it. no problem. what you don t hear a lot of, is a lot of detail about what is is house republicans would prefer
Like that. we wouldn t hold its hand in public, we tell it all the time, we want a little bit of space, but damn if we don t want to keep it around. a majority of people said they actually want to increase spending in two category. 53% want to spend more on veteran s benefits, and 60% want to spend more on education. education, which by the way, gets hit pretty hard by the sequester. now, maybe we need to change or relationship status rather than our policies. because the american people actually seem to like the services the federal government provides. and they approve of the spending the federal government does to provide the services, rightly or wrongly they approve. that is the reality. and that is the problem that the republicans are facing. the house republicans did pass a plan to replace this year s sequester with other spending cuts, passing the house in december. it would abolish the defense cuts and move the $1.2 trillion cuts entirely, entirely to the discretionary spending
Benefits, 73 don t want to cut defense. 74%, don t cut energy, 76% don t want to cut environmental protection or agriculture. 77% don t want to cut scientific research or anti-terrorism defenses. 81%, 81% don t want to cut roads and infrastructure. 82% don t want to cut medicare or anti-crime programs. 83% don t want to cut food and drug programs. 87% don t want to cut social security, 89% don t want to cut education, and 91% don t want to cut veteran s benefits. and there, in one poll is the republican s problem in dealing with the sequester. and that is why the white house feels it is increasingly doing well. government is like the america s friend with benefits. we don t say we love it. or even really say we like it