What they do is they say, how do we start cutting our monthly costs?
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So the ideas that are being talked about is how do we provide more incentive for clean energy companies like yours to operate profitably, and over time how do we start shifting away from less efficient ways of using energy?
And finally -- now, there are all kinds of other aspects of it in terms of encouraging prevention and funding prevention, but the other big piece of this is we want to work through the Medicare and the Medicaid system to figure out how do we start controlling costs.
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So what I've said is look, for wealthier people why don't we raise the cap? (Applause.) Make them pay a little more payroll tax. (Applause.) Not everybody is wild about this idea, not surprisingly. (Laughter.) And so what I would like to do -- I had a fiscal responsibility summit where I brought together Republicans, Democrats, experts on all these issues -- how do we start dealing with our long-term deficits, our long-term debt.
Some of the children we have are so young, they don't even know their name, so how do we even start to find out who their parents are?
Once the economy stabilizes and people are less fearful, then I do think that we're going to have to start thinking about how do we operate more prudently, because there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Our challenge is how do we get businesses to start hiring again?
How do we get help to children and families before they start kindergarten?
How do we fix the reputational problems still afflicting the financial services industry nearly four years after start of the financial crisis?
Or will he start a serious pullout or even ask the question John McCain asked--How do we win this thing?
That's how we start off -- every time somebody speaks in Congress, the first thing they do, they stand up and all the talking points -- I see Frank Luntz up here sitting in the front.
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So before we start to look at how to put a budget together, there is some work to do.
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