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this is concerning the ari fleisher comment. that is the former white house press secretary under president bush. your thoughts. pensacola is first on the democrats' line. curtis, go ahead. caller: i would like to make a request that next time you have a republican or democratic person that is in the house or the senate, ask tm when they are going to put a bill up for term limits and also put the social security money in the social security account and not the general account. i would appreciate that. host: we will be talking about congressional issues wh david drucker later this morning. what about the helen thomas stored? caller: what happened to freedom of speech? just because the majority may be does not agree, she was just saying what she thought for felts i may not particularly agree with our but why is it whenever somebody says something you don't like or agree with, you want to get them -- what is the word -- terminated or fired. if we did that, i don't think anybody would be working. host: a republican view from west ri

this is concerning the ari fleisher comment. that is the former white house press secretary under president bush. your thoughts. pensacola is first on the democrats' line. curtis, go ahead. caller: i would like to make a request that next time you have a republican or democratic person that is in the house or the senate, ask them when they are going to put a bill up for term limits and also put the social security money in the social security account and not the general account. i would appreciate that. host: we will be talking about congressional issues with david drucker later this morning. what about the helen thomas stored? caller: what happened to freedom of speech? just because the majority may be does not agree, she was just saying what she thought for felts. i may not particularly agree with our but why is it whenever somebody says something you don't like or agree with, you want to get them -- what is the word -- terminated or fired. if we did that, i don't think anybody would be working. host: a republican view from we

spokesman gary fleisher is quoted here -- she did the right thing by announcing her visitation -- ari fleisher. if total here of helen thomas posing a question to the lbj -- this is a photo here of helen thomas posing a question to lbj. how about those proposed budget cuts? deal. here's the all of these people calling in need to wake up. we have to freeze our federal budget right where it is at. these economists that are smart said the end is in sight. the united states of america, folks, we are bankrupt. we have to freeze this the budget, stop spending money. that is the end of the story. all of this other stuff is just nonsense. stop spending our money. they are boring money by billions. we are in trouble. the united states is almost into a depression. the american people better wake up and throw all of these incumbents out of office. listen to what i just said -- fire your incumbents right now. because we are bankrupt. the united states is almost ready to collapse, no joke. have a great day. host: kevin, independent caller from indiana. caller: i kind of disagree with the last caller. the u