federal government uses money to help states and municipalities hire teachers, hire firefighters, hire cops. i'm quite sure that mitt romney is aware of this fact. >> well, in addition to the fact that he was a governor, right? >> right! >> so the people who are recipients of these type of block grants that the stimulus was. and the whole issue in the stimulus passed when a lot of republican governors say, no, no, we don't want that money, they know exactly what the federal government was earmarking and wanting that money for, it was to hire -- wait for it -- teachers, cops, and firefighters. that's always been what the block grant was for. romney was a governor, he should know that. >> and if i was the obama campaign, i would be organizing some lock firefighters on mitt romney's bus tour that he's on, they should be at every event asking with, why don't you think we should have firefighters in our town? why don't you want to put our colleagues back to work? >> the president said something today about mitt romney's success and his understanding