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Determination. >> there are no excuses. it depends on you and no one else. >> shepard: im shepard smith and this is "the fox report." its the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. the presumptive presidential candidate or nominee, i should say, mitt romney today jumped all over president obamas comments on the economy. as we reported here earlier, the president said this morning that "the private sector is doing fine." governor romney called him out of touch and the president later c...

Country verses a statement. manufacturing jobs disappeared at twice the national average. >> i love the way you come on this show, michael, and you defend your congress, and when they get nothing done because they so no to everything, like that little can of spam he has, and they say no to that, not this little jobs bill to help states and counties make more firemen and teachers, you say no to that every day and then you say how come no new jobs? your party in the congress gets its rocks off wee...

The nick side find really jarring is this idea of sort of vilifying and calling people fuzz. we are talking about cops that are patrolling our streets, a very dangerous job, were talking about firemen and teachers. and it doesnt feel right when at the same time the republican party is saying, almost worship ceos that are maing gar ganch yum amounts of money. >> so whats happening right now, this is the bush great recession, this is the bush great depression. if the economy wasnt in the tank righ...

Jarring is this idea of sort of vilifying and calling people fuzz. we are talking about cops that are patrolling our streets, a very dangerous job, were talking about firemen and teachers. and it doesnt feel right when at the same time the republican party is saying, almost worship ceos that are making ging gar g yum amounts of money. >> so whats happening right now, this is the bush great recession, this is the bush great depression. if the economy wasnt in the tank right now, nobody would be h...

>> mitt romney attacks his jobs plan. >> he was pushing aside the private sector which he said was doing fine. instead he wants to add more to government. he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. he said we need more firemen, more teachers. did he not get the message? its time to cut back in government and help the american people. >> its amazing, ladies, to watch politicians play to their constituents. in this case, they couldnt resist. even on a good day he steps on...

Budget. it has nothing to do with what a ceo -- >> so this isnt philosophical about workers, its about a budget? is that where republicans are? >> yes, because if they could keep them happy and not have them working against them, absolutely. >> so this is all -- >> im sorry, i didnt mean to cut you off, but i think whats interesting is, the public sector unions that have been the most successful at negotiating large benefit packages, health benefits, et cetera, retirement, have been the police o...

Republican congress for saying no to everything this guy wants them to do. then when they get nothing done because they say no to every little thing, this little can of spam, they say no to that, they wont get this puny little jobs bill and they fire for firemen and teachers, and then you come on and say how come no new jobs? because your party gets its rocks off by saying no to everything. >> but the reality is, you want to throw the spam out there, but youre not worried about how much the spam...

Ground, varies tea parties around the state, average joe citizens. they just worked hard. they had 100,000 people protesting at the capital the beginning of last year, 16 months of whining and temper tantrums. it inspired us to fight back. i mean this was a battle over fiscal responsibility and the voters chose balancing the budget. >> do you think the voters also are sending unions a message here? because the union response has been weve had far more gains and defeats and you just heard from a ...

To help job creators gain a little more confidence and put americans back to work. even bill clinton came out for it. >> i would make the same argument. its the same argument former president bill clinton has been making. that is that we need to extend these tax rates. >> president bill clinton gets it. he knows in this economy you should not be raising taxes on anybody. >> so it took a while, but republicans in congress finally realize that bill clinton gets it. which i guess means they agree w...

Firemen and teachers, you say no to that every day and then you say how come no new jobs? your party in the congress gets its rocks off week after week after week saying no. >> thats an image i dont want to deal with right now. >> i dont know what it mean sos you go on here. >> the reality of it is you want to just get the spam out there, but youre not worried about how much the spam cost. youre not worried about how folks will. >> you cant complain about no jobs if a guy says i have a jobs bill...