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Wide  of Obama walking into briefing room2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President:\"At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some traction, hiring new workers, bringing jobs back...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC - 1 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide  of Obama walking into briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some traction, hiring new workers, bringing jobs back to America, we shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that's been floating around Washington, that somehow, even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, that most people agree I'm presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don't take it means that I should somehow, you know, do a Jedi mindmeld with these folks and convince them to do what's right. Well, they're elected. We have a constitutional system of government.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of Obama at podium\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And let's be clear: None of this is necessary. It's happening because a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. They've allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of John Boehner, Republican House Speaker (Ohio State) walking out of White House\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway of camera crews and photographers \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Boehner, Republican House Speaker (Ohio State):\u003cbr/\u003e\"Let's make it clear that the president got his tax hikes on January first. The discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. It's about taking on the spending problem here in Washington.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of photographers \u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of Boehner walking back into the White House\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of Sarah Binder, Senior Policy Analyst, Brookings Institution, during interview \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sarah Binder, Senior Policy Analyst, Brookings Institution:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the public generally looks back at this and says, 'A pox on both your houses\" right? People disagree about what the solution is but I think some degree of a government making actual decisions rather than putting the government on auto pilot, I think that everybody recognises that's probably not the best way to govern.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePortsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine - 27 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide exterior of the entrance to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of sign for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of ships docked at the shipyard\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Orson Huntley, Domain Administrator at the Naval Shipyard:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is going to really devastate what I'm doing. I'm probably going to have to find myself another job to deal with this. My wife is extremely ill, and me, personally, I'll end up losing most everything I have because of my wife's illness.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium of a submarine\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul O'Connor, President of the Metal Trades Council at the Naval Shipyard: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Doing the work that we do, the serious nature of our business, coupled with the fact that this crisis, the stress we're under in completely congressionally manufactured, you know, it's unfathomable. The stress level is pretty high at the shipyard right now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of cars driving into the shipyard\u003cbr/\u003eA combative U.S. President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers on Friday for failing to stop automatic spending cuts from beginning to kick in late in the day, arguing he can't perform a \"Jedi mind meld\" to get Republicans to agree on a deal. \u003cbr/\u003eStill, he and Republican leaders displayed no appetite for letting the fight shut the government down later this month.\u003cbr/\u003eMeeting on the day that 85 billion US dollars in federal spending cuts were to begin to take effect, the nation's top government officials made no progress on how to avoid what they all agreed would be damaging reductions in defence and domestic spending. \u003cbr/\u003e\"At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some traction, hiring new workers, bringing jobs back to America, we shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on,\" Obama told the White House press corps following the meeting.\u003cbr/\u003eThe president conceded after the session that he hadn't been able to persuade Republicans to accept his proposal to reduce deficits with a blend of tax hikes and long-term reduction in entitlement spending. \u003cbr/\u003ePressed on whether he bears some responsibility for the stalemate, Obama expressed frustration - and mixed his sci-fi metaphors.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don't take it means that I should somehow, you know, do a Jedi 'mindmeld' with these folks and convince them to do what's right,\" Obama said. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Jedi reference comes from Star Wars, and the mindmeld from Star Trek.\u003cbr/\u003eObama said he still believed the cuts could be replaced but he wanted a deal that includes more tax revenue by closing \"wasteful\" loopholes. He said it may take a couple of weeks or couple of months to find a fix for the impasse.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Let's be clear: None of this is necessary,\" Obama said. \"It's happening because of a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. We shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eStill, following a nearly hour-long meeting in the White House, Obama and the top four leaders in Congress generally agreed not to create a crisis out of a March 27 deadline when federal authority to spend on government operations runs out.\u003cbr/\u003eObama met at the White House Friday morning with House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.\u003cbr/\u003eBoehner's office said he and McConnell told Obama they're willing to close tax loopholes but only to lower taxes overall, not to replace spending cuts. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The president got his tax hikes on January first,\" Boehner said bluntly after the meeting with Obama. \"The discussion about revenue in my view is over. It's about taking on the spending problem here in Washington.\"\u003cbr/\u003eObama is seeking a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and ever-growing entitlement programs. But with automatic federal spending cuts ready to start taking their toll, the path toward that grand bargain Obama campaigned on last year has significantly narrowed.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with their elected leaders and inability to reach a deal.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the public generally looks back at this and says, \"A pox on both your houses\", right? People disagree about what the solution is but I think some degree of a government making actual decisions rather than putting the government on auto pilot, I think that everybody recognises that's probably not the best way to govern,\" said Brookings Institution political analyst Sarah Binder, who showed that it's not only the president who can make a mistake with a cultural reference. The correct quote from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has \"plague\" rather than pox.\u003cbr/\u003eFive hundred miles from the stalemate in Washington, the men and women who work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard are anxiously worrying about paying rent, searching for new jobs and caring for sick loved ones.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmost the entire workforce, a community of more than 5,000 along the Maine and New Hampshire seacoast, is preparing to lose the equivalent of a month's pay because of Congress' inability to resolve another budget stalemate.\u003cbr/\u003eOrsom \"Butch\" Huntley, a shipyard employee for three decades, is already living paycheque to paycheque while caring for his terminally ill wife. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm probably going to have to find myself another job to deal with this. 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