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SCARBOROUGH: "Steve, let's just cut straight to this and I know you're going to go through these charts, but this is something that when I hear these two guys talking about how they're going to get $2 trillion from the budget, it's -- it's a joke, and it's a joke because this is something you and I have been obsessed about for a very long time, the national debt, getting the deficit under control, and I just -- you know just -- just looking at your first chart here. I mean people need to understand social security and medicare make up about 50 percent of what the government spends. You add defense and veterans benefits that's another 20 percent. So you're up to 70 percent. You then add debt and and and how much it costs to service that debt that's another 10 percent. So Steve, before they even start talking about cutting these so-called federal employees that are bankrupting us, the United States government has already spent 80 percent of its budget on medicare, medicaid, social security, vets, defense, and interest on the debt. So I -- I just I love some of these other numbers, and again forgive me for -- for -- for like killing Hamlet in the first act here, but oh let's cut law enforcement, that's 1 percent of the budget, oh let's cut sciences and medical research, we spend too much on that they may be saying -- one percent of the budget, ag, one percent of the budget. Transportation, those pork barrel projects it's going to bankrupt us -- it's only 2 percent of the budget. Again I will actually let you explain this far better than I right now, but this is a scam unless they're going to slash Social Security and Medicare and the -- and -- and Veterans Affairs they're never going to get the $2 trillion so they need to just stop pretending."
