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Can days looking to double its oil production over the next ten years. he has plenty of oil to tap but not enough workers to help secure it. some firms are willing to pay top dollar to convince americans to head north. >> electricians, ml ii spayed wrights. >> reporter: can days looking for a few good men and women. >> a lot of people are retiring. we have infrastructure projects. mines being built, ports, all the infrastructure oil and gas, its kind of endless. >> reporter: british columbia and...

Are on to what the republicans are up to? they want to balance the budget on the backs of low income, middle class, and the elderly. they are saying, weve got to cut all this spending, cut all this spending, but they dont want the wealthy to pay their fair share. the american people are on to us. thats what this election is about. if there was one thing clear in this last election is that president obama said, if you re-elect me, im going to be in favor of raising the rates and raising taxes on ...

Sorting out details so that the moment they get back the week after thanksgiving they can start looking at this and moving on it. but with now 45 days to go, you know, i think the minority leader nancy pelosis goal of christmas is a good one. its probably also realistic that it wont happen before then. >> what about to both of you, if, if we get the money, say we get this trillion dollars one way or another, is there a guarantee, nancy, to you first, that, that this goes to reducing the deficit?...

Way ronald reagan was able to defeat jimmy carter. but how does the president answer that question to all of the people by two to one who are telling us they are worried the country is headed in the wrong direction because of persistently high unemployment and the new job numbers will come out on friday, potentially if theyre bad, stepping on whatever excitement comes out of the convention. >> well, as any politician, thank you so much for having me, but im a little bit reluctant to do hypotheti...

The shelf, bills waiting to be passed that could provide a veterans job core and could provide tax fairness and help the refinancing of homes and that could build infrastructure projects. these things are just waiting to happen, but we need the votes. so, they need to send people like me, people like the fine candidates at this table so that the president can have the support and the congress he needs to move the country forward. >> do people know about those bills? i feel like, when you tell a ...

Little formal education because they worked hard and they believed in this country and my parents are sitting back listening to this thinking about all that my grandfathers contributed to the community and the people who they hired and then they have to listen to this? my mother in this e-mail when she wrote to me she said this is a totally foreign concept, i dont know what country that we live in right now. >> by the way its completely inaccurate. who pays the taxpayer money that funds infrastr...

you can call me nuts, can you call me ching little, if you want. but the political battle being waged over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing those storm bands over our heads. look, you dont need me to tell you our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. latest cnn/orc polls just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that conditions are pretty poor. and while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fra...

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>> thats right, harris. the president would like to use money were no longer spending on the war to fund more infrastructure projects in the u.s. he made reference to doing a little nation building in communities closer to home. >> there is work to be done building roads and bridges and wireless networks. there are hundreds of thousands of construction workers that are ready to do it. >> but with our nations debt soaring and many arguing the massive stimulus package in 2009 didnt do enough, ther...

austerity and fears of a meltdown. looking ahead to the rio environmental summit, a sharply contrarian take from someone who says the whole thing is a waste of time. finally -- >> i am for free press, fair elections and equal rights for women. i cant say that. >> what in the world? "the dictator" might be a fun movie, but dictators in real life are getting smarter, sav savvier and less authoritarian. but first, heres my take. were now in the general election campaign in the united st...