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I love new technology, so when i heard that american express and twitter were teaming up, i was pretty interested. turns out you just sync your american express card securely to your twitter account, tweet specific hashtags, and you'll get offers on things you love. this totally changes the way i think about membership. saving money on the things you want. to me, that's the membership effect. nice boots! on thursday president obama will close the democratic national convention in charlotte. here's the dnc chair, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa earlier this week. >> the whole sort of c...

>> i'm letting you play the straight man, i'm the one getting all upset. >> i have a lot of respect, so how he wants to frame where he is personally, that's up to him. the way i would see it is, we have had 30 straight gains in private sector jobs. over 4.5 million private sector jobs. so, i think the private sector is starting to actually build a nice foundation. housing, okay, foreclosures is at a four-year low. housing starts at a four-year high. the auto sector and something you just bring up. when the governor of ohio the other night said that they have gone from 48th to 4 in job creation...

There are others. but, look, one of the reasons why so many people of incredible means are giving to the superpacs on the republican side and to mitt romney is because it's a return on investment. they're looking at 20% across the board tax cut and they're looking at their own -- >> looking at the end of the inheritance tax. >> look, there's other people on wall street recognizing it's better for the entire economy to grow and i think those are people who are supporting the president. i think that's the difference. they're looking at a longer term versus only an immediate short-term issue. >> ...

Emergency we had with the hurricane. everyone jumps in to help. you have an economic emergency and the republicans don't jump in to help. that's a big problem. >> a year ago today he came out with the america's jobs act. >> it was multiple republican id ideas. >> 7 0% of that was tax breaks. 30% was structure and argue about the 10% that no one is for. >> domestic auto industry not be the same sort of thing. these are fundamental things. >> the first economist to come out that this was good policy was mccain's republican economist who said, 1.7 million jobs, okay, 1.7 and maybe 2% on gdp. >> i...

Things like getting rid of the inheritance tax entirely and getting rid of a 20% tax cut and lowering capital gains and paul ryan wants to get rid of capital gains altogether and mitt romney would pay 0%. >> i think it's 1%. >> 1%. you're saying it's a return on investment and i would like you to respond to that. is that your understanding? >> listen, as opposed to talk about why someone is moving that way because of taxes, we should talk about this way. why do we need taxes to go up for the wealthy? it's about having a shared sacrifice and i want to put one fact on the table. since 1776 every...