in other words don't shoot the democrat santa clause which we pay for by the way to reduce the deficit or bernie sanders of the progress is understand is that democrats haven't been playing santa claus for the last eighty years just to win elections they don't play santa claus to save the nation and our economic system as we know it face of the great depression and communist revolutions around the world roosevelt had to enact the new deal just to save capitalism itself in america and the american people were willing to pay for it faced with the crisis of poverty the one nine hundred sixty s. and the hardships senior citizens are facing upon retirement l.b.j. enacted the great society and medicare because the people wanted gifts from santa claus but because people needed help and providing for the general welfare is according to our constitution one of the main purposes for which our government itself was created and despite what limbaugh o'reilly and other con say providing student loan relief isn't a gift it's a necessity now that outstanding student loan is topped up trillion dollars

the so-called fiscal cliff looming republicans want barack obama and democrats to fire the bloody as shots of all against santa clause they want democrats to riddle social security and medicare with bullets and with the help of the corporate media republicans have managed to create this false equivalency that says of taxes go up on the wealthiest two percent of americans and the rust of the nation has to suffer from deep budget cuts to social welfare programs the unemployed would need to get by with fewer employed men to get by with fewer benefits and senior citizens have to work longer before they can qualify for medicare to them this is what's called a balanced approach riot despite claims to the white house that social security is off the negotiating table both president obama and vice president biden have thrown support behind a sort of green bargain like simpson bowles that will leave the republican santa claus the deliberate low tax rates nicked by paper cuts but leave the democratic senate clause a shot a bloody mess recognizing what might be on the horizon progressive senator bernie sanders said this after th

santa clause and b. we've got to force the democrats to shoot santa clause and we do that by running up huge debts what republicans are in office and screaming about the debts of democrats come in isn't this just an extension of wineskins playbook that ronald reagan really took seriously and he triple the national debt of course that is that everybody did and george bush did the same exact thing they do they play this game with the american people but this time in this election the american people actually won what the republicans tried to do they tried to crush them they try to destroy them they tried to stop them. going to the polls they try to put voter suppression laws in place all across the country and we saw turnout even higher than in two thousand and eight because the people the american people are smarter than the republican party thinks they are and will mitt romney make statements about you know how he thinks about immigrants or how he feels about african-americans or how he feels about young women or how he feels about young people if you think that's going to get his party back in power it's the sadl

about you can't beat santa clause so he advised republicans play their own santa clause but he didn't explicitly talk about how you know if we run up this massive debt the democrats will eventually have to cut back but that is how you end up beating santa clauses you force democrats to shoot them and that's what we're seeing played out here as you have and we only have a short time left by the i want to get to two quick things first of all you end your article by saying that it's time to put down the gun and not shoot santa clause how can we do this responsibly well the republicans keep historically they did it with clinton ministration you know any welfare as we know it they did it with the obama administration last year foreseen obama to cut unemployment benefits for ninety nine weeks down to seventy four weeks as part of a compromise democrats have to. saying ok we're going to go along with these cuts this is crazy we are a great nation we're one of the wealthiest nations in the world we can easily afford these kinds of social welfare programs and more frankly i mean our our spending our government spent as a percentage of g.d.p. is about a half of what it is

so let's become the tax cut santa clause and that's where grover comes in and b. they had to figure out how to force the democrats to shoot santa clause their own set of laws and the way you do that is when you have a republican administration you spend money like crazy you cut taxes you run up huge debt you don't say a word about it and then as soon as a democrat comes in office you start screaming about the debt and try to see if you don't read that. it still should senekal if you have really quadruple what exact had to happen provided the way it's exactly what happened during the clinton administration group old spending and quadrupled the deficit then in this forward you're going to get all your god has influence or an article written in one thousand nine hundred six that sort of led to believe it that became like the foundation trilogy every really really has for thirty two years this is been this is been the republican party tonight and your eyes are going out to remember the the clinton administration yes first week that bill clinton right after the election the first week after the election when the repub

i mean the for ever since the new deal republicans have been yelling that the democrat democrats are santa clause and you know that was social security and unemployment benefits and medicare and all these kind of things and isn't in a democracy if the people vote for benefits and are willing to tax themselves to pay for it is not a legitimate function of government and no we are not a democracy where a constitutional republic that was designed exactly to prevent you spending my money without my permission you're going to say that the constitution article one section eight clearly lays out the powers of the senate the legislator erst says the first sentence of article one section eight says in part that the powers to tax and spend are to fulfill the purpose of the general welfare of the country the last sentence of article one section eight repeats that if you go back to alexander hamilton is report on manufacture section twenty one of his report on manufacturers seven hundred ninety three when he was the secretary of the treasury in washington the ministration he was one of the guys in the room w