i want to read something. you ve written a book about your son tommy, about what happened with him and grief and all of what you had been through. one of the things you said, you said i ve learned that trauma can steal everything from you that s most precious and rip joy right out of your life but paradoxally, it can make you stronger and connect you more deeply to other people than you ever imagined by enabling you to integrate their losses and pain. if a person can go through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too. do you think this nation can grow through the trauma that it has experienced? i know that we can. and they will tell you, we have boxes and boxes of letters, thousands and thousands of letters from people around the country, from people around the world reaching out to us to console us, to send us love but also to talk about what it was
are and i feel like the president and the dems are about to give in on entitlements and we ll feel screwed even though we won the election. what do you think? i think the, in terms of the architecture of entitlements, toure, in terms of social security, medicare, medicaid. let s talk about those three. medicaid really not being an entitlement but sort of viewed that way. i think actually, paradoxally, the biggest threat may to be social security. i think the president already put on the table this notion of altering the formula for cost of living increases for social security recipients. is so-called chain cpi. i think that is on the table. over the long term it does get you a bunch of money. i think he will give on that if he can get some revenues. on medicaid, i don t see how he can do it. because obama care, the core of obama care in terms of extending coverage to a lot of new people
is 16, 17 new people on medicaid. i don t see how he can give in on that. especially after a lot of republicans are coming to accept obama care because they want the pled indicated money. so i would say number one threat is social security. number two threat is some monkeying around with medicare but i think medicaid will survive pretty much intact. all right, how fi. it s already getting old. there s a hash tag happening right now. it is now trending. we can talk about how horrible and terrible and really bad the republican budget is. but for their part, at least, they ve been producing one with some consistency and democrats will come to the table with various democrats from the senate side. but let s talk about president obama. for the first time in 92 years, congress and not the president is kick starting this budget process. president obama hasn t even set a date for the release of his budget and it looks like he is