pledges being made from both parties. particularly on jobs. president obama promised unemployment would stay below 8% if stimulus passed. in their pledge, republicans promised, quoting, national economic prosperity, but offer few particulars on how to make that happen. joining me from new york is christine romans. do you see anything, and we're looking as you're looking, in this pledge where republicans can actually stimulate job growth? >> they give a few particulars about how they would try to do that and among them, if some of the traditional republican platform like cut the size of government. cut bureaucratic red tape. they say that kills small business when ever you have too much red tape, that's job killing. they talk about a small business tax deduction equal to 20% of their business income. they think that would make the way for investment and capital