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were talking about the occupy wall street movement, now in its sixth week in cities across the country. large crowds have taken to the streets in philadelphia and boston and elsewhere. theyre protesting income inequality and the lack of jobs. last week, herman cain said those fired up over americas economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. heres what he told "the wall street journal". >> dont blame wall street. dont blame the big banks. if you dont have a job and youre not ...

Cut spending. we need to stop unnecessary regulation thats hampering small businesses to hire people. >> you know, mr. risch, we keep hearing that cutting spending, and getting regulation out of the way, but they never tell us what regulation is in the way of creating jobs in america. can you address that? >> well, for years theyve been saying health regulation, worker safety, environmental regulation, they basically dont like any of these regulations, nor do many big businesses. but the fact of...

Blanche lincoln, tim johnson. theyll people say we need to find out what happened. we continue to use 20 million barrels of oil a day in the united states. 30% of that comes from the gulf. we continue to need the oil and we need to find the ways to get that oil in the most environmentally responsible way and prevent an environment al disaster like this in the future. but we need all these energy sources and we dont want to become more dependent on foreign sources of energy. when you look at what...