John Spratt: “It is more like $3.3 trillion deficit. We have had a swing in the wrong direction of nearly $9 trillion.”

I think it is a widely held view that all of those actions have had positive effects on the economy.

He is very helpful to us. Has been. A wonderful individual to work with.

The moral of the story is, if the leaders of both parties don't want a commission to succeed, if the leaders of both parties aren't willing to put both parts of the budget, taxes and spending, on the table, the chances that it is going to…

If we have entitlements that we already can't pay for, shouldn't we not be adding new entitlements?