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Couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? is that report accurate? >> i never asked for stimulus. i dont recall. i havent seen this report so i really cant comment on it. i oppose the stimulus because it doesnt work. it didnt work. >> no, i never asked for stimulus, he says. yes, you did. the "wall street journal" reported on you doing it. the "ap" reported on you doing it, the "boston globe" reported on you doing it. heres paul ryan in octob...

>> what? what do you mean? >> it began when he told an abc station he never asked for any. >> thats good. because hes against the stimulus. >> small government conservatism, who takes stimulus money. >> i would not. >> i know you wouldnt. >> report came out in the app, a repeat of the "wall street journal" article from a couple years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? is that report accurate? >> i never asked for stimulus. i havent seen this report. i...

But its not one that anybody ive actually ever met hues to. then the third part of the stimulus, one of the big other parts was you gave money to state and local governments in order to keep teachers and firemen and other public employees on the job. and if youre curious about whether or not that is a real thing, whether or not those jobs are real, over the last two years we have lost 600,000 of them. they show up in the bureau of labor statistics report every single month. paul ryan releases a ...

The victory to republicans over this week on medicare. >> governor, the other issue youve made reference to. reported that paul ryan trying to steer stimulus money to companies in his home state. ryan had called the stimulus a wasteful spending spree. on wednesday he was asked about that. heres what he said. >> a report came out again today in the ap. it was a repeat of that wall street journal article from a couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that a...

Obamas stimulus package. take a look at this tape from two days ago. >> a report came out again in the a.p. it was a repeat of that wall street journal article a couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? is that report accurate? >> i dont recall. i havent seen this report so i cant comment on it. i oppose a stimulus because it doesnt work. it didnt work. >> reporter: now, apparently in 2009, the office of paul ryan sent two letters under his ...

Budget the way he runs our countrys budget. none of them would ever run their family business the way they propose running our countrys business. its just bad economics, it doesnt work. and weve got to get to supplies-side progrowth where people get rewarded for doing well. martha: do you feel confident that romney-ryan would do that, that they would be able to pass that kind of plan and institute the real kind of tax reform were talking about here which would flatten out the tax curve considera...

Trickle down economics, which is the practice skwroe the pejorative way of calling it. you had kennedy with his supply side or trickle down economics, beautiful it was called the kennedy go-go 60s. you had the four stooges, johnson, ford, nicks con and carter. you had reagan with trickle down economics. you have clinton with supply side or clinton economics, which was a boom. now you have bush and obama with sort of the same sort of bad economics and the results are pretty terrible, martha. what...

Youll get a reagan style, kennedy style clinton style boom. no one really understands what clinton did but he cut government spending during his all eight years more than any other president. martha: youre coming up with a very bayh par very nonpartisan historical look at it. >> its just economics. martha: always good to talk to you. thank you. gregg: fireworks in the race to the white house. governor romney saying the attacks from the left are getting u-g-l-y. >> theyve had have ithey are demea...

Tough in the primaries, and now hes trying to say the other guy is mean and nasty? it just doesnt work. >> joy reid and richard wolffe, thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up, the ryan/romney medicare mess gets messier. wendel porter will join us on that. and paul ryan has failed to drown out talk of the romney secret tax returns. we have video of ann romneys latest interview on the subject. and now we know what mrs. romney looks like when shes really angry. and in the "rewrite...

Romney. mitt romney played it really tough in the primaries, and now hes trying to say the other guy is mean and nasty? it just doesnt work. >> joy reid and richard wolffe, thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up, the ryan/romney medicare mess gets messier. wendel porter will join us on that. and paul ryan has failed to drown out talk of the romney secret tax returns. we have video of ann romneys latest interview on the subject. and now we know what mrs. romney looks like when she...