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As you can see ron paul speaking to the crowd here, traditional message about the economy, about cutting back, about cutting government and getting out of foreign wars. and its very well-received here in this crowd. we tried to talk to congressman paul one-on-one and didnt work out scheduling-wise, but after the event, he did hold a media availability, with a group of press reporters, press pool that covers him day-to-day, talking about why he should be the nominee. >> its where the opportunity ...

Local reports say 4,000 new jersey police officers have lost their jobs in the last two years, 4,000. things are so stretched thin in newark that police dont even respond to car accidents anymore unless there are injuries. the paterson narcotics squad was cut in half and little egg, new jersey, had to eliminate its drug and traffic units and while towns and cities are cutting back, theres one group christie hasnt asked to sacrifice. he vetoed taxes on millionaires this year and last year which w...

do not feel like the unemployment situation is working well enough for them and their families and this coming together as we have a big deadline coming up for the super community to figure out how to get our debts and deficits in order. the rest of the world looking at us and worried how serious the u.s. is about political harmony. a lot of different fronts all moving at once. you add in europe and the sense of confidence, this lack of confidence around the world and that is what we a...

Are cutting back, but dont cut anything that i like and the senators --. >>neil: does it worry you that always happens? we thought it -- so what now? >>guest: a reason only to a little extent, the tea party brought to the table, people that are frustrated with the status quo so we can replace the senators that are uneasy, because there are a lot of people who do understand that medicare, medicaid, and social security cannot go on the way we have designed. we are pulling the dinosaurs into the 21...

Their focused i think probably correctly on cutting back, you know, on fiscal stimulus because the deficits are so huge. they have to show the credit markets theyre serious about fiscal responsible and also at the fed the monetary policy has -- hes put the brakes on there. hes pulling off on the gas pedal on monetary policy. >> in countries where stimulus has been used, growth is very slow, 1.8% here over the last quarter. in places like europe, the united kingdom for example, austerity, growth ...

Want to go to war themselves. the same with the deficit. theres a lot of peachers -- theres a lot of poachers out here. step up to plate and cut medicaid and medicare. >> gerri, nobody loves sending anybody to war thats not a gate . >> im talking about the posers who dont want to step up with serious proposals. >> lets talk about history. 1995, we survived that, we learned a lot about a government shutdown if that happens, maybe this does teach lessons about cutting back, maybe cutting jobs. all...

>> neil: you know the numbers were going on his way and he cut a lot of business related taxes, capital gains taxes so he offset one with the other. >> at the time it was done, the economy was very much hurting. in fact it cost the first president bush the election. >> neil: we know that but we also know in retrospect the gdp was improving. im saying then the economy was better than it is now. >> neil, the gdp is improving this year asell. >> neil: not as markedly as then. >> its clear raising t...

Issues that have dominated this political campaign have been foreign policy and immigration. are you going to drill into things like the cost of war and the cost of our legal immigration problem? >> absolutely. and defense, yeah, absolutely. foreign policy is going to be a big focus tonight because, guess what? none of us have the privilege to do business in america and work and live in america unless were safe. and unless were protecting our front lines. so foreign policy going to be a big disc...

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Them. and they think that central banks spending hundreds of millions of more dollars to most of the world economy will do just that. never mind the lessons from wisconsin where austerity rules and the big spenders now rule, but that almost never seemed to have happened. certainly not in washington, dc, where far from cutting back, they are talking about piling on. with a whopping $50 billion transportation bill to be voted on tomorrow and $6 billion student loan bill as soon as next week. talk ...