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Four years ago almost to the day when the president came in with a stimulus act. the recovery act. at a time of huge economic global crisis. it was the first time it was a real wake-up call for the president and senior aides because every other time of national crisis, and remember, this was an international crisis, the country had come together. republicans had come in. and what did he get for it? he got three republican votes in the entire congress. he won't get three now for this kind of plan. so if republicans wouldn't step into that crisis at that point, why would they step into this cris...

Other. >> gretchen: it created 1.4 jobs. how can you be? >> if you look at stimulus act and job recovery numbers and you can go to the websites. we have 300 construction jobs and after that five permanent. it is 800,000 a job. >> brian: if you look at the debate and the only thing mitt romney called him out on is the green jobs. the stimulus jobs show lack of super vision and leadership. >> the real green jobs and if you call a bus driver a natural gas green job. there are so few real true honest to goodness green jobs created and the billions that are poured into it is abysmal. mitt romney br...

And be patriots and put the country first, we can look at the american recovery and reinvestment act. 10% of the $780 billion spent generated 35% of all the jobs. >> what are the pillars of a second term? for president obama? >> well first of all there is no pillar of his second term. he is, you know i use the example in 2008 he was elvis 1957. 2012, he's looking more like elvis in ' 77. he's singing the old hits, doesn't believe it himself. he president didn't bring up the stimulus act. if it was such a great boon for american workers, he would have brought it up. he didn't bring up obama car...

Into a great depression. i'll tell you what, oh yes it did. under your guy, george bush, we lost 3.5 million jobs. >> hold on, hold on. wait a minute. >> i'll go to joe. >> it would be -- [ people talking at the same time ] >> barack obama has produced more net private-sector jobs than george w. bush. if we want to go to the facts and be patriots and put the country first, we can look at the american recovery and reinvestment act. 10% of the $780 billion spent generated 35% of all the jobs. >> what are the pillars of a second term? for president obama? >> well first of all there is no pillar o...

In your first term? is that a commitment you can make? >> i'll balance the budget by the end of my second term. doing it in the first term would cause, i believe, a dramatic impact on the economy. too dramatic. and therefore the steps i put in place, and we put together a plan that lays out how we get to a balanced budget within eight to ten years. >> they haven't put out that plan, but i do like that, a dramatic impact on the economy. i agree, governor, it would. what's interesting here, though, it would be one thing if romney were just a keynesian. republicans have a long history of being ke...