key tenets klugman dating affordability, using time limits, using competition to control costs and innovationnd eliminating redundant weapons. another suggestion, to cut by half the mandated reports they must produce for congress. they estimate reviews over 10 years cost at least $350 million. many aren't worked the cost and no longer convey valuable information, he says, as a person who spends time looking at reports he's got a good point. fewer, shorter reports would be taken more seriously and save trees. a bigger problem is the government's ingrained use it or lose it culture when it comes to budgets, unless you spend it you won't get more next year and everyone wants more next year whether they need it or not. services sometimes rush ahead with programs that aren't well thought through, as was recently the case with the ground combat vehicle in the army. changing the wasteful habit will be the biggest challenge and where a vast savings can be reached. thanks for joining us for "this week in defense news." i'm vago muradian. a very happy 63rd birthday to the united states air force. you c

weighing in, nobel prize winning economist paul klugman. good morning. in your column this morning, your advice to the president, be bold. give us the bullet points. >> well, the basic point is, the stimulus, the plan he laid out at the beginning of last year, has worked when it was tried. but it was obvious from the beginning that it was too small. he clearly needs more, the economy needs more. we need a real, real effort to get the economy moving. not a half-hearted push that we got. all of the scare stories, that it's going to drive up inflation and interest rates turned out to be wrong. he should go for another round of cash to get the economy off the stalling speed it's at right now. >> you say he should propose it, even though you know this congress is no way they're going to prove major new spending. look how long it took to get unemployment benefits. >> that's right. at this point, he has to lay out the issues. you've got to put it down there. we has to get the american people to say, am i going to support the people who say we mustn't do anythin

great people in your career, ted knight, bea arthur, ed asner, you also worked with tony randle, jack klugman any time. i just have to look at his face and i'm gone. >> peter: what planet is he from? we love him. >> i lost you, darling. would you say that again? >> peter: i asked what planet tim conway was from because he is so funny. >> i don't think we found that planet yet. he is hysterical. and he does it all with a straight face. >> gretchen: he's from the planet of talent. now, i want to ask you about a rumor that's out there. are you going to play god in the remake of the 1977 film "oh, god"? >> no, that's another one of those funny rumors that they start on facebook or wherever it is, and they start these rumors and then everybody thinks it's a fact. there is not a chance, i'm not going to host the oscars, i'm not going to do a lot of things they say i'm going to do on there. >> peter: if you're not going to do those things, let's make up a really good one and let's have you make it up. what are you not going to do, but we can put out there right now that you're going to do it just to