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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 ...

Who are unemployed. you have 25 million who are underemployed. even if you pass every single part of the presidents stimulus portion, the government spending infrastructure portion of the bill youre only talking about an additional 1.9 million jobs. and those might only be temporary. doesnt that fall way short of whats needed to put the u.s. economy back on track? >> well, gregg, again, i dont believe were necessarily going to get to every part of this bill individually. i believe though there i...

Our export communities get healthy and were not doing things for them. were focused elsewhere. the third is, this is all a confidence game. in the end, you have to give businesses the confidence to hire people, invest in capital equipment, and this administration has not inspired the confidence of the business community, in part because they havent made jobs a top priority. they did health care first, just this past week, we said, want to go ahead and regulate carbon in the clean air act. they d...