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Our local capitol hill newspaper that members from the majority party in the other body wants stimulus. they are breaking with their party leadership and asking for stimulus legislation to pass, because in their home states, they have a lot of people losing their jobs. >> now, paul ryan, a major opponent of president obama's stimulus plan, despite as we've learned over the past couple of days, requesting funds from it. why is it different when it's under president bush, west? >> just because they are both called a stimulus doesn't mean they are the same thing. when i got the $300, i bought a b...

At what point when people are paying 55%, 60% of taxes is it just too much for a growing economy? >> well, governor, but isn't it a fallacy to say, quote, stimulus doesn't work? and secondly, how can we tell the people that are suffering that are unemployed, that are going through this, to wait on some global solution? can't we bring relief while we move toward -- i don't discount at all we have to deal with the deficit, but why do we have to deal with people who are unemployed, running out of unemployment hurricanes, running out of all kinds of things they need to survive? why do they have to...

Package by money that went to the state and to the city to fix roads. as barbara points out in the story, a stimulus is a short-term fix. i mean, what we really need to do is increase the demand. the demand for new products, the demand for new jobs. a stimulus doesn't necessarily do that. it's a brief shot in the arm. i think it's helpful. i think it can tide us over. in the long term -- look, we've lost 8 million jobs since 2007. wie we'd have to create 200,000 new jobs a month to get back to that in three years. i mean, no stimulus bill, however large, can do that. >> it's not going to do it...

Guy took o office. i guess what i'm saying that is with the stimulus, that's what you got. what the heck is the problem with stopping the stimulus? just seeing how things go? the stimulus doesn't seem to be any great magic elixir. >> it's a mistake and assumption to make the argument was the stimulus was the cure-all. the stimulus was designed to help turn around the economy. when you go from negative 6% in gdp to positive 6% gdp growth, that didn't happen by accident. >> neil: you wouldn't expect to go from unemployment rate at 10%. we still have more jobless and higher unemployment than then...

Both candidates in this election? >> certainly stimulus doesn't work either. we had a big stimulus plan. gave us a period of grace, but we didn't use it to fix what's broke. namely, the energy sector, drilling for more oil and trade with china, which is something we all agree about. the next president or next term of this president will have to focus on those things or america won't find its way home. >> obviously, let's look at human decision making. food, sex and the path of least resistance. that's how humans function and organize. so what we're really looking at here is path of least resis...