100 Years Ago: The City of Lemoore is enjoying the biggest building boom that has occurred for a number of years. The situation caused by the lack of building operations
"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen begins the story of Sen. Gerald P. Nye, one of the leading advocates for not getting involved in the war prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
the data, those are not significant problems facing us. there s no conversation about defense. and there s no there s no specific plan coming from republicans and i think people become really offended in many cases when you start talking about medicare and social security because logic tells you you social security, that that s not the overwhelming problem in our budget. i think you hit it right on the head the amazing thing, you talk about entitle reforms, we are going to have sear joyce about it but not serious about tonight backs to of the people that need it to survive and live n terms of defense cut, i, for the life of me, and i remember this on the hill, i don t understand why there s not a more serious discussion about scaling back defense cuts. war savings is not a defense country. spending an enormous amount of money on defense, the largest chunk of our budget. if we continue down this road of pretending, democrats and republican does it pretend we
spending cuts and war savings. does that soiund like it s in te ballpark to you? i think it s too early to say what s in the ballpark. the overall question you re asking is how much will come from revenue, how much will come from cuts. there s been no agreement reached on that yet. and you have to fill in the details. let s talk about one of the things that is getting conversation today. if the republicans give on raising taxes, and we know that skr john boehner and a lot of republicans have said they don t want to raise taxes on people making over $250,000 a year. but if they re willing to do that, they will certainly want something significantment in terms of entitlements. but the deal that s being talked about would delay the cuts for 10 to 20 years. do you think they would buy that is th is this. i think the detail we re talking about is not something we ve gotten into yet.