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Romney finishing so well in that particular voting, that little poll up there in new hampshire is that he was the governor in the next door state of massachusetts. meanwhile, let's move on. we know that billions and billions of our tax dollars were spent on stimulus projects and now the gao says that 3700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations got $24 billion from stimulus programs and yet, they owed $757 million in back taxes. so even though they owed the federal government a whole bunch of dough, the federal government gave them more. >> and it's because this is yet another looph...

A bit of a problem. but that's the problem when you have some of the stimulus programs without the type of, you know, group to look over every-- >> people trying to double dip. >> dave: and the prison problem. >> clayton: yeah. >> dave: a thousand people. >> clayton: a thousand prisoners managed to get this home buyer tax credit. now, that should set off some alarms there. >> molly: they don't need to buy the first time home. >> clayton: three hots and a cot. they don't need this. 7.7 million paid out to those prisoners and it's amazing because, yeah, if you own a home for like five-- cell num...

Washington, dc, saying? >>reporter: obviously the white house is taking credit for this report saying that the economic policy, tax cuts and stimulus programs, et cetera, have helped to jump start job creation. but with 14 million people out there still looking for work, it says that more work has to be done to help create jobs. take a listen. as people come back into the labor force you may see the rates go up and down and we have a long way to go. it is still way too high. but this is clearly the right direction. >>reporter: republicans are having none of this. house speaker boehner while we...

Changing healthcare plans, there is just no other way to do it. jenna: some suggest,ed if i may if we cut spending we'll loose more jobs and we can't afford to do that in this question. is that true? >> spending in the short run has not had much of an effect on jobs any way. the stimulus programs we've seen over the past couple of years. and by the way i would include the bush stimulus programs as well in in this had minimal job growth. what we do need tho do, i think, and i would side with the president on this is that we do need to think about the future. we do need to think about the long r...

Wild that person grow up in america with there is not a federal social security program if you got your way? >> absolutely. >> no demagoguery there at all. >> if you had to? a sentence or two describe barack obama, what do you say? >> bad for america. he's one of the major forces moving this country towards socialism. it's the wrong direction for america. this is bipartisan problem, but he's at the front of it. the growth of stimulus programs, the growth of basically government bailouts to industries that are failing, it's not the american way, it's not the free market way. and it's killing th...