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>> he got a chance to explain his jobs program, how hes going to create new jobs in america. did you hear what he had to say? i didnt, either. . i kept looking for a specific plan as to what he was going to do to create jobs. i heard more of the same. stimulus, hiring more government workers, raising taxes. those things dont create jobs, they cost jobs. >> reporter: alex, thats base you cannily what were expecting to hear again tonight this, idea that one report is great but its not the same thi...

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Its like deal with that. i think thats okay. i think that the powerful people in america love playing us against each other, right? because its so much easier to blame a type of person. so much easier to blame an immigrant than it is to blame the entire system of washington and the jobs program. its so much easier to blame a gay person getting married. >> let me pause on exactly that. it feels to me like -- its interesting to me when this notion about men and women, its as though thats the only ...

And educational cuts at the local level. thats how to really stimulate the economy and get things moving. the fed has been begging the congress to do something, but because we have tea party control here in the congress, we cant get anybody to get off their hands and try to pass president obamas jobs program. >> peter, i tend to agree with the congressmans assessment there. the fed needed to act, especially in the absence of congressional action. there are concerns that qe-3 may not be effective...

>> speaking of that, if i could ask you to put your political hat on for a minute. it seems like a lot of debate over defense spending isnt driven by what our security interests are, its driven by the politics, both members of congress who see this as a jobs program and by the massive amounts of money spent by defense contractors if in 2011 alone. you had over $33 million spent by defense contractors to essentially protect their business. how do you fight against that landscape? >> what a great ...

Defense sector, theres only 3.4 million jobs. if you have a 10% cut, are you going to lose 33% of all jobs? second, mind you that when you do have procurement cut in research and development that most defense firms are out and about doing, you dont get all that money in the first year. only 20% of it is spent the first year. the rest is spent over two, three, and four years so the defense industries have time for normal attrition and retirement to be cushioned from the blow. the bottom line of e...

About this, there are four numbers that i would point to. if i were running here at this republican convention this would be the centerpiece of my speech. if you have a four-year college degree your unemployment rate is 4.1%. two years of post-secondary education around 7%, if you just graduated high school, its around 11%. and if you dropped out of high school, its 13%. so everyone wants to know what their jobs program. its simple, if you get at least two to four years of post-secondary educati...

United states congress and president set ambitious goals. most important element is to achieve those goals. we can talk about going to mars some day but unless we take concrete steps back toward the moon, back toward the moon. there is nearby as destroyed. those are essential stepping stones that neil has been advocating. we need to pull together and not just treat space exploration as a jobs program. no, its a primer for the next generation of scientists and engineers. it primes the pump that k...

Rights abuses that take place every day in china. theres a -- one guy in the film charles lee who was in a chinese forced labor camp and comes back to america and finds the homer simpson slippers he made in the labor camp sold in america. i mean, so watch the film and what im trying to do here with the film is basically have the message i think which is going to be the winning message in the presidential campaign, which is that the job -- the best trade program, the best jobs program is trade re...

In like a gang symbol and go around the country. what ryan signals to me -- he says, actually my path to prosperity is the jobs program. really what it really is focused on, its trying to focus the debates squarely in the terms of what are long-term fess cal projections, how are we going to bend it, how with we going to pay if for medicare, get rid of it, et cetera. in the form of human beings who can work and are able bodied sitting on the sidelines, and if i were running against barack obama -...