And you know what drives me nuts, Don, is nobody really talks about real numbers in this town. They're talking about cuts off a baseline. They're really not cuts. They're just reducing the rate of growth. And, you know, If you're serious about cutting a trillion dollars, you need to cut about $100 billion in the first year. because that's the only way you lower the baseline to actually get a credible trillion dollar cut over the long term. And so that's kind of what happened, I think, with the Boehner plan. (00:59–01:13)
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