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Industry to china because some politicians in washington refuse to make the same commitment in america. >> he's right, some will fail but when you look at the number of alternative energy programs that have failed that the president or vice president have actually visited, it gets quite -- it's quite a list. serious materials failed, solyndra, half a billion failed. beacon power, 43 billion failed. ener1, $118 million failed. >> this is not ready. there's got to be some innovation and r&d, you should not be seeking government dollars into your own personal agenda. that's what this is. he says ...

Bulb. we lost. it is gone. >>guest: we have a one year reprieve on that and, hopefully, by defunding some we can do that. what we don't want is the federal government micromanaging all the alternative energy programs and ideas if they are good ideas, take them to the marketplace. secure your investors. then, make it a profitable venture but we know the best energy policy for the united states is going to be drill here, drill now. >>stuart: what a republican administration end the idea that the government can pick winners and end putting public money into private companies, would you stop that,...

>> reporter: there are about 250 people in the audience and they are all selected by linkedin. we're told that they are either linkedin employees or members of linkedin who submitted questions and all those questions were chosen by linkedin itself. some of them will be asked by audience members and some of them will be asked by the ceo of linkedin who will be there with the president. >> jessica, we know that obviously mr. obama, he relied quite a bit on social media and turned to social media quite a bit in 2008. is this a sign do you think he's planning to do the same thing for 201...

hard-earned money. some simple thingsckpñ you can our financial experts will fill us in on how to live on less. but first, let's turn to washington, shall we, where this time next week we could see some government agencies shutting down because they will be out of money. lawmakers are still arguing over a new spending plan to keep everything up and running. they're off this weekend after days and days of bickering, the biggest sticking point here is over money for disaster relief. republicans in the house say any monies for fema must be offset by alternative energy programs. democra...