Page 30 - Aei News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Campaign headquarters the next morning for more detailed discussion about where governor romney stands on the key issues of the campaign. so governor, we talked last night about jobs and the economy and also the debt. i want to begin there. you've called the debt and our deficit a moral crisis and yet in addition to extending the bush tax cuts you want to cut tax rates an additional 20%. you've rejected a 10-1 spending ratio when it comes to spending to increasing taxes. and yet you want to balance the budget. the math simply doesn't add up, does it? >> actually it does. five different economi...

Discussion about where governor romney stands on the key issues of the campaign. so governor, we talked last night about jobs and the economy and also the debt. i want to begin there. you've called the debt and our deficit a moral crisis and yet in addition to extending the bush tax cuts you want to cut tax rates an additional 20%. you've rejected a 10-1 spending ratio when it comes to spending to increasing taxes. and yet you want to balance the budget. the math simply doesn't add up, does it? >> actually it does. five different economic studies including one at harvard, princeton, aei and a ...

All so pleased with so many americans were so pleased with the last election. and seeing that a black man was elected president of the united states. it made us proud as americans to know that those prejudices that we've had in the past are falling away. beyond some of the more personal areas, we sat down at campaign headquarters the next morning for a more detailed discussion about where governor romney stands on the key issues of the campaign. so governor we talked last night about the jobs and the economy and also the debt. and i want to begin there. you've called the debt and our deficit...

Weapon to oppose, to kill, to discredit. it's very destructive. >> how much of it is the balance of power? it's really at stake, the balance of power is at stake. nobody has gotten to a sustained governing majority. that hasn't happened in a long time. then things settle down historically. >> unfortunately i have to go to break. it is interesting one of the solutions you just outlined was republicans may need to take a drubbing at the polls. this coming from gentlemen scholars at the brookings enstatute and aei. thomas mann and norm ornstein, thank you so much for your time. concluding a very ...

American that there will still be ups and downs along the way. >> bret: the president today talked about the jobs number out today. it was a drop in the unemployment rate but there was a reason. the number employees added were less than expected. aei had an analysis of it saying that the workforce is shrinking, continuing to shrink. the same place that when obama took office in january 2009 the unemployment rate would actually be 10.9%. if it was the same workforce in place. what about the numbers and the political impact of it all? bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." a.b. s...