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Equipment to replace the equipment we have now. reporter: would that mean hiring more workers? it would. allow us to put on a surnt shift. we currently have about 27 employees now. i hope to have 50 with the next two years. modernize our production lines and get into a larger building. reporter: what do you think the government could do that it s not doing for small businesses? i think that as far as unemployment extensions go, they could limit the amount of extensions they put. we ve had a help wanted sign out front for probably six months. people come in, fill out applications, but ultimately we end up just signing their slip that they ve been here, that they ve looked for a job. reporter: to get unemployment benefits? absolutely. they re telling me they re happy with the unemployment benefits they re receiving now and maybe they end they ll consider it. there has to be a point in time when somebody starts fresh, gets back into a company, starting ....
That means you re not telling them something they don t know when you criticize republicans. just reminded them you don t like either side. maybe you re more afraid than angry. you may drive down some people from voting. we know people who are really energizes this year are the people ho are on the right, who are the tea party types. we know they re going to turn out. it seems like in all the ads, he s saying don t blame the government, blame wall street. blame these rich guys. these fa nat cal, what do you call them, ideologues. here s a good set of ads. they re all nailing republican challenger sharron angle, who is pretty far out there in nevada. richard burr in north carolina, and meg whitman in north out in california let s listen to this barrage of ads against the r s. let s listen. sharron angle opposes extending unemployment benefits. no, i wouldn t have voted for unemployment extensions. she says laid off workers are spoiled. we really have spoiled our citizenr ....
Fairer america ironically in a u.k. paper. here s one of his suggestions to save our economy. he will break up the big banks and put them in the street as they want to put you out on the street. those bankers who committed fraud will do hard time. so again, he ll put our big banks on the street single handedly destroying our economy. that sounds like a good lead. one of the things about alvin greene is he doesn t have a job. he s fighting the law a little bit. he ll teach some of the harvard boys what it s like to be unemployed and talk to them about the need for unemployment extensions and what it s like there and he will ban put huge tariffs on all imports so he can start building things here at home again. the interesting thing is when people write op eds out there for this and put them out for publication, did he put them out for publication in the u.s. and nobody picked them up and it was just the u.k. paper that would pick this up? bottom of that. when you say college ed ....
And u3 are organizing people online and saying, hey, let s go to some rallies. you know, they re sort of taking a page out of the tea partyer s book, of all things, and they re sort of demanding answers from these people. they ve also been very successful at deluging offices with calls and faxes and e-mails and they ve been very successful in that. and it s just this big question moving forward. if all of these millions of people are connecting online, what kind of effect they might have. i thought it was really interesting, there was one guy you talked to in the article, said he had been a lifelong republican and this was this radicalizing moment. i think i know people who i ve interviewed who are unemployed. you know, this is not, it s not a demographic of people you can easily make generalizations about, but there are a lot of people who are used to being politically effective, who are used to a certain political lifestyle, who have credentials, and they re used to having a certai ....
Moving forward. if all of these millions of people are connecting online, what kind of effect they might have. i thought it was really interesting, there was one guy o you talked to in the article, said he had been a lifelong republican and this was this radicalizing moment. i think i know people who i ve interviewed who are unemployed. you know, this is not, it s not a demographic of people you can easily make generalizations about, but there are a lot of people who are used to being politically effective, who are used to a certain political lifestyle, who have credentials, and they re used to having a certain amount of say over their lives and they ve had this sort of radicalizing effect. i wonder how much that s driving the organizing you re seeing. yeah, i think it absolutely is. so there was an eight-month battle for the unemployment extensions in congress, and specifically in the senate, and you had senators like jim bunning standing up saying, i, this single senator, is goin ....