executive compensation might be an easy target but capping them could lead to unintended coequees. you careadhe stotoriest la.c. [ male announcer ] you paid in to medicare for years. every paycheck. w, when you need it obama has cut $716 billion dollars from medicare. why? to pay for obamacare. so now the money you paid for your guaranteed healthcare is going to a massive new government program that's not for you. the romney-ryan plan protects medicare benefits for today's seniors and strengthenthe plan r the next generation. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> we are back witith josh boak of "the fiscal timeses," and kate dersen brower from bloomberg. let's talk about this campaign. there have been a lot of distractions from the issues. is this a referendum on obama? is this a competing visionsns for a way ahead? whwhat becomes the ctral issue now that paul an has bee married to the republican campaign? >> a couple things. a lot of this is going to be conditioned-based. certainly all of this can be framed along those issues of thee paul rn budget. perhaps jus