Cruz: Use debt ceiling debate for leverage

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3. Translate No. 2 as cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.

"No. 1, we should look for some significant structural plan and reduce government spending."

Yeah, sure. Let's raise taxes on those job creators who aren't creating jobs. Give them tax breaks for creating jobs. Otherwise tax them way back up to the Eisenhower era taxes.

Don't steal the savings of the baby boomers and their kids and younger siblings.

Repay the money that was given to the defense industry by Bush when he fought the illegal war in Iraq and the poorly thought out war in Afghanistan.

Where is the money the Bush administration lost in Iraq? Does Petraeus know? He was over there. Who else in the Bush administration knew and still knows what happened to the lost cash?

The Republicans are a bunch of thieves.