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## Video: Alan Simpson on Obama

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## Transcript

Every president I served when I was working on a piece of legislation, immigration, nuclear, veterans. I'd say where's the White House bill? Where's the White House on this piece of legislation? Where is their? And every president I served would send up a White House bill so you had some kinda format to work on. This guy says, well it's up to the legislature. We say, well where's the White House bill? And they don't get one. He can get everything he wants. He can get immigration, climate change, guns, whatever he thinks he wants to get. But if he doesn't stabilize Social Security, for 75 years and get health care reined in.

So it doesn't consume the entire gross product, he will have a failed presidency. It's just a total lack of communication, and a very unfortunate thing happening with this president, which discloses an arrogance and an unwillingness to compromise, and a loftiness, which is not pleasant. Like, these things are happening. He's sayin, why I'm so shocked at that, we're going to do something about it. Well hell he's the president. He shouldn't be shocked at what his IRS is doing or his National Security Council. That is beginning to leak down through his White House, that you gotta get to the big stuff.

So they're getting on a plane and going somewhere else every other week. Anyway, I admire him and he made me, you know, he just appointed me to this commission, but, you know, madness. People of America are very sad about it, and disgusted.

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