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is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Jean Marks, the small business columnist for the Guardian newspaper and the Philadelphia

Inquirer, a hometown newspaper. The business of America is small business. We go immediately

to the cloud hanging over all small businesses in America.

Gene, a very good evening to you.

You have written very cogently in the Washington Times

about the deficit and the debt and what we face until

and if this country is responsible about spending. How much time have we got

gene to make up our minds who are going to be good parents?

Good evening to you.

Hi, Sean, how are you?

Yeah, the piece I wrote for the Washington Times was about,

because I get this question more and more about the deficit.

You know, small businesses, mid-sized businesses, all of us.

It's very hard to get your arms around, you know, numbers like 19 trillion dollars

and debt, you know, in the trillions and deficits of that high and it's you know I I sort

to make sure that my clients and my readers and people in my community

understand that the deficit is a is a fixable problem.

Our national debt is obviously at staggering numbers and projected to go even significantly

higher by the Congressional budget office but it is

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