conversations. it s a narrow question. you re for it or not. look, i am for reforming our public sbimgentitlements for americans who are far away from retirement. we need to keep promises for seniors, make sure people counting on medicare and social security have the benefits they have. for young americans, absolutely yes. we ought to bring real reform for the sake of future generations of americans to get spending under control. let me bring you into this. what we re talking about a lot, whether it s a debt commission that talk about the tough choices that have to be made, is washington in a position to make fuf choices about taxes, spending, and other ways it to create jobs? the not particularly. the deficit commission is a good example. that was appointed by president obama because congress refused
does the president commit itself to that. we have to work with congress. congress is not forthcoming about the bill. we have to work with them to make sure that the gulf coast communities see the benefits of this money. but the president at least supports the notion of majority of this penalty money being returned to the region? absolutely. let me ask you about the m e moratorium. the president said it was the right thing to do, and there s some talk to be lifted early. a moratorium on deep water drilling in the gulf, 33 deep water rigs in the gulf currently? he said three things. first of all, we have to understand what happened so we can make sure all the safety measures are in place so it doesn t happen again. in the worst-case scenario we have another leak, we have to contain it. we ve learned a lot about how to contain it, and some of the oil companies say perhaps we should prestage the containment equipment. that makes a lot of sense. finally we have to clean it up. we
what do you say? well, i m concerned about the state of the economy. it s pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. it s also pretty clear the american people are still demanding and asking the question, where are the jobs? the reason we don t have new jobs is because of the job killing agenda pursued by president obama and his allies in the congress. they really do have employers scared to death. i ve been all over my district over the last several days. i was in a couple of my neighboring states. i talked to a lot of employers who just are fearful of what s coming next out of washington. it s all the spending, it s all the debt. it s their national energy tax. i call it cap and trade. more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. they are health care bill. more mandates, health care costs and taxes. if it s not bad enough, they want to raise the taxes on the american people. it s no wonder employers are frozen.
conversations. it s a narrow question. you re for it or not. look, i am for reforming our public sbimgentitlements for americans who are far away from retirement. we need to keep promises for seniors, make sure people counting on medicare and social security have the benefits they have. for young americans, absolutely yes. we ought to bring real reform for the sake of future generations of americans to get spending under control. let me bring you into this. what we re talking about a lot, whether it s a debt commission that talk about the tough choices that have to be made, is washington in a position to make fuf choices about taxes, spending, and other ways it to create jobs? the not particularly. the deficit commission is a good example. that was appointed by president obama because congress refused
what do you say? well, i m concerned about the state of the economy. it s pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. it s also pretty clear the american people are still demanding and asking the question, where are the jobs? the reason we don t have new jobs is because of the job killing agenda pursued by president obama and his allies in the congress. they really do have employers scared to death. i ve been all over my district over the last several days. i was in a couple of my neighboring states. i talked to a lot of employers who just are fearful of what s coming next out of washington. it s all the spending, it s all the debt. it s their national energy tax. i call it cap and trade. more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. they are health care bill. more mandates, health care costs and taxes. if it s not bad enough, they want to raise the taxes on the american people. it s no wonder employers are