ssi has not been paid yet. my brother's father worked 50 years and paid into social security so he could draw his survivor benefits. he is entitled to that, that is why they call it entitlements. if republicans could go in and not raise taxes but close tax loopholes, do away with their pet projects, and do away with duplicate government agencies, we don't need an atf. the fbi does firearm background checks for firearm sales. bomb squads would be taken over by local state and government policing authorities. we don't need an atf or a federal department of education. each state has the department of education those programs can run through and why are we sending money to buy cotton institute in brazil when that money is needed in the united states? host: thank you for that. we are waiting to hear from democratic senators. the caucus has been meeting this morning in the senate has come back again and we will take up harry reid's deficit-reduction plan after the house failed to move forward with speaker boehner's p

tenants through the process, whether they had bedbugs, illegal eviction issues, or questions around ssi. he was able to work with tenants are given the right direction where they should go for assistance. he was recently asked to be in the urban habitat boards and commissions leadership institute. but specifically is urban habitat's way of culling leaders from communities of color and low income people and saying we want to give you extra skills to be on the commission because you have the skills. he is for the next year going to be in that program which is going to support him on the sro taskforce. i have seen his work. i think he would be an excellent contribution to the task force. thank you. >> good afternoon again. i could find no other candidate who had the experience of victor nelson. i have known him 11 years. i have been an activist for eight of those years. he is known to be fair, to use good judgment. he understands the community. he really knows how to do a group setting. he can listen. in one on one brainstorming, his sensibility -- if you have met at meetings and so on the

the people in my state depend on programs that the republicans want to take a meat axe to, ssi and sociald and medicare. we need to know how it's done because it's possible to cut back the programs, but it's going to take some real care and concern to see that it's done so that it hurts people the very least. >> so you can see an entitlements cuts, it's just the nature of the cuts we're talking about? >> it's the nature of the cuts and when and how they come, and it's also, i think, how you fund them. we would probably take three parts cuts to one parts r revenues. what we won't do is take billions in cuts with no cuts in rev news. we believe it should be a fair share plan, not just the people who are poor and dependent on these programs. that's not unreasonable. >> but for seven months we have been having this argument. >> that's right. >> as you know, it has been going on for seven months and everybody can argue who is to blame, but the reality is we're up against a deadline here, and the republicans are determined to go ahead. where do you see this coming out? >> i can tell you in the

gang of six and what they've come up with, there would be no benefit cuts for five years, would exempt ssi for five years, but how they do the consumer price index, would that change your position. are you willing to go with the president and take your name off that list or are you going to stand strong and protect the big three. where do you stand tonight? >> ed, there's nothing to go with. what we got was a lot of verbiage about what could be done. but we are too weak to defaulting on the nation's obligations. it is time to pass the debt ceiling increase. and also to say to the american people by the polls you showed earlier, the american people want deficit reduction and want a balanced approach. they want to make sure they protect medicare and social security and medicaid, and i still stand by the letter that we sent to the president, and it wasn't just liberals that want to protect these programs for the american people because they deserve it, and especially while there are some out there that want to give away all kinds of tax loopholes and benefits to corporations, to big oil, to m

i'm also upset with governor brown because he did another cut on our ssi.ate the way they keep bringing up the cut medicare and make it a state bank. it is not the poor people possible. these rich people in congress making the rules, it is their fault. picking on people that are disabled, about the middle of the month they are out of food, and it just incenses me that they cannot get it together. host: as go to new york. gerald is an independent. caller: under the 14th amendment, the president has the right to see to it that the bills of the government are paid. we already ran up the debt so we need to pay the bills. i don't understand why he does not just say, not paying the bill is a clear and present danger to the public order. therefore, i am going to direct secretary geithner to pay the bills. if congress does not agree, they can sue me. congress would be the ones with the legal standing to go to the court. to say that he cannot do that. they are not going to do that because the democrats control the senate. i just do not see why he does not cut the wh

i'm also upset with governor brown because he did another cut on our ssi.eep bringin up the cut medicare and make it a state bank. it is not the poor people possible. these rich people in congress making the rules, it is their fault. picking on people that are disabled, about the middle of the month they are out of food, and it just incenses me that they cannot get it together. host: as go to new york. gerald is an independent. caller: under the 14th amendment, the president has the right to see to it that the bills of the government are paid. we already ran up the debt so we need to pay the bills. i don't underand why he does not just say, not paying the bill is a car and present danger to the public order. therefore, i am going to direct secretary geithner to pay the bills. if congress does not agree, they can sue me. congress would be the ones with the legal standing to go to the court. to say that he cant do that. they are not going to do that because the democrats control the senate. i just do not see why he does not cut the whole debate off and say th

i am completely dependent on ssi. it is paid by the citizens of the united states for that purpose. it is prepaid. it should not be on the chopping block. i would love to see president obama go to congress and have both sides there and go through each individual item one by one and it goes or it does not. set priorities straight as to what needs to be done, what we're going to keep and what cut. i would like to see all the troops that are in afghanistan and iraq come home. we simply cannot afford it as a nation. host: let's go to comments made by jay carney yesterday at the white house, press secretary if talking about cut, cap, and balance proposal by republicans, and why he thinks it's worse than the ryan budget plan. >> it requires the passage of a balanced budget amendment and all this would require the even more draconian cuts than the ones that were in the right and budget. a cut in cleana 1 energy and a significant dismantling of social security plans and medicaid. congressman ryan's plan did not deal with social security, but the draconian savings that are called for in this

billion more being added to $1.2 trillion. >> caller: yeah, but refugees and foreigners are getting ssi payments. >> terry on the republican line. >> caller: good morning, sir. response to the first caller, i would like to point out facts here. under obama's current budget, we have $1.7 trillion annual deficit. that boils down to $180 million per hour we are running up debt, that doesn't include the current national debt, sir. how are you going to get the money from the so-called rich? you could tax them 100% and you wouldn't cover the debt president obama is racking up now. they keep saying the rich are paying fair share, the i.r.s. states -- but they are paying 40 or 41%. if you are screaming for tax increases, to the first caller, let me remind you, all the tax increase necessary obama care that will hit in 2012 and 2013 and the bush tax cuts that will expire the same time. now you want a third round of tax increases? yep, the obama economy will do -- >> for all that you have laid out, what should it mean then for leaders on capitol hill in the days ahead? >> caller: they are doing e

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this falls back on the ssi and social security income. and why these companies are not responsible to pick up this premium on my insurance. host: james, tie this to the debt ceiling debate. caller: i cannot hardly hear you. host: we will leave it there. speaking of jobs, this is the business section of the "new york times." the effects of lower in the federal government credit rating to aa from aaa could be measured in the billions of dollars of interest borrowing. -- increased borrowing. look at the "financial times." speaking aboard aaa credit rating, here is the "new york " with other countries ratings. that's good to scott in maryland. caller: i am hoping my congressman will vote against the better plan. when we're talking about shared sacrifice, we should all share the sacrifice. [unintelligible] host: i apologize. you're breaking up and it was difficult to hear them. we move on to jeff and honolulu. caller: first i want to say that every day becomes more ridiculous talking about japan, we are directly affected by that. we are really

because there are a lot of people on social security, and that the social security disability and that ssi stuff that don't belong on there. they've got kids on their eight or nine years old getting social security disability checks because they've got attention deficit disorder. eight-year-old kid does not need a social security check for that. host: mr. happy tweets in -- here is the front page, lead story in "the new york times." this is how they play it. over church by boehner, is the subheading -- overture by boehner. peter. caller: i am medically retired. i had a liver transplant in 2005 so i am in social security and disability benefits. it has been a lively conversation. there have been some awful good calls coming in. but i would suggest to america that the real problem with our finances is the two-party system. we need to establish term limits and the break up the monopoly of the two-party system. you guys are complaining about how all of this is being spread around and dold out. go back to the 1960's, like the previous caller mentioned, when they changed the social security fund

and didn't work such as these kids that are hooked on drugs and that are alcoholics and collecting ssi -- >> host: alaina, i think that's out of our guests expertise. on to liz. >> caller: hi, good morning, america. i kind of do not agree with the republican agenda. i wanted to make that statement. i really feel that they want to take away benefits to people on social security, but yet they give subsidy to billionaire oil companies. to me that doesn't make any sense. plus the government borrows money from social security. so social security is sort of an asset. as far as the constitution goes, a crazy question, we are talking about impeachment of the president. is there any way that the general public can remove members of congress from the receipt? sort of public impeachment of people that don't do their jobs? >> guest: no. you can't recall your congressman expect every two years in the house, and every six years for the senate. one thing i think we see is a lot of callers are bringing up general positions, their views on social security, for example, medicare, defense, and so on. i t