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I love new technology, so when i heard that american express and twitter were teaming up, i was pretty interested. turns out you just sync your american express card securely to your twitter account, tweet specific hashtags, and youll get offers on things you love. this totally changes the way i think about membership. saving money on the things you want. to me, thats the membership effect. nice boots! on thursday president obama will close the democratic national convention in charlotte. here...

>> im letting you play the straight man, im the one getting all upset. >> i have a lot of respect, so how he wants to frame where he is personally, thats up to him. the way i would see it is, we have had 30 straight gains in private sector jobs. over 4.5 million private sector jobs. so, i think the private sector is starting to actually build a nice foundation. housing, okay, foreclosures is at a four-year low. housing starts at a four-year high. the auto sector and something you just bring up. ...

There are others. but, look, one of the reasons why so many people of incredible means are giving to the superpacs on the republican side and to mitt romney is because its a return on investment. theyre looking at 20% across the board tax cut and theyre looking at their own -- >> looking at the end of the inheritance tax. >> look, theres other people on wall street recognizing its better for the entire economy to grow and i think those are people who are supporting the president. i think thats t...

Emergency we had with the hurricane. everyone jumps in to help. you have an economic emergency and the republicans dont jump in to help. thats a big problem. >> a year ago today he came out with the americas jobs act. >> it was multiple republican id ideas. >> 7 0% of that was tax breaks. 30% was structure and argue about the 10% that no one is for. >> domestic auto industry not be the same sort of thing. these are fundamental things. >> the first economist to come out that this was good policy ...

Things like getting rid of the inheritance tax entirely and getting rid of a 20% tax cut and lowering capital gains and paul ryan wants to get rid of capital gains altogether and mitt romney would pay 0%. >> i think its 1%. >> 1%. youre saying its a return on investment and i would like you to respond to that. is that your understanding? >> listen, as opposed to talk about why someone is moving that way because of taxes, we should talk about this way. why do we need taxes to go up for the wealth...

Jump in if im overlooking or undercounting things. on the bill of complaints, there is the fact that the employee free choice act, which the number one priority was essentially left to wither on the vine. the white house supported it, but never really put much muscle into passing it. thats generalthy consensus. the pay freeze on federal workers is a huge complaint by the union that reps a lot of those workers. that pay freeze will enter a second year, i believe. the presidents support for some l...