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Are on to what the republicans are up to? they want to balance the budget on the backs of low income, middle class, and the elderly. they are saying, we've got to cut all this spending, cut all this spending, but they don't want the wealthy to pay their fair share. the american people are on to us. that's what this election is about. if there was one thing clear in this last election is that president obama said, if you re-elect me, i'm going to be in favor of raising the rates and raising taxes on the super wealthy in our country. and guess what, al, he won. and he won big. that's where the a...

Who are unemployed. you have 25 million who are underemployed. even if you pass every single part of the president's stimulus portion, the government spending infrastructure portion of the bill you're only talking about an additional 1.9 million jobs. and those might only be temporary. doesn't that fall way short of what's needed to put the u.s. economy back on track? >> well, gregg, again, i don't believe we're necessarily going to get to every part of this bill individually. i believe though there is a great deal of support for a infrastructure initiative and infrastructure bank that is alre...

Our export communities get healthy and we're not doing things for them. we're focused elsewhere. the third is, this is all a confidence game. in the end, you have to give businesses the confidence to hire people, invest in capital equipment, and this administration has not inspired the confidence of the business community, in part because they haven't made jobs a top priority. they did health care first, just this past week, we said, want to go ahead and regulate carbon in the clean air act. they don't care about us. and we have a problem, as a result. >> greg, we do see a reluctance to hire i...