the numbers we ve been seeing. bill: is this a shell game sold to the american people? tucker, when you look back at this right now, some project a 2 trillion dollar price tag over the last 10 years. or 20 years? think about this. you re looking at wreckage of the 2008 financial collapse. you re president obama. 2009. first thing comes to mind let s have a massive new federal entitlement. that s what this country needs. the whole thing was out of hand from literally from day one. that is why it was so difficult to get through the congress. why not one republican voted for it. it remains the single heat popular thing obama has done. it was never a good idea. bill: based on the argument tucker is making alan, is this administration s undoing come the fall? no, i don t think so. if romney is the nominee and said my massachusetts model should be the model for the country, something he now denies he ever said. that will zero out that particular argument. you also, the economy seems
429,000 jobs added over two years. what policies do you see the gop presidential candidates stepping up with, when you hear romney and santorum and gingrich on the stump, are you hearing anything that would encourage you they will have something for wage earners? they have no plan for jobs, whatsoever. i m convinced they are anti-job. this highway bill is an example of that. let me give you a few statistics. the average age of a bridge in the united states of america is 45 years old. they were built to last 50 years. one-third of the roads in this country are in poor or mediocre condition. and you use those statistics we have a 2.2 trillion dollar infrastructure problem and republicans are holding up passing a transportation highway bill that will put people back to work again, that will improve the economy, improve our job numbers, and they are playing
by the way the same critics in washington raking them over the coals missed everything else. i think there s enough blame to go around. be that as it may, guys, unfortunately, these ratings agencies are pretty much the only game in town and to be fair to s & p, i m hardly an apologies for them. when it comes to judging countries they ve been pretty good on that and shaky, but countries they ve been pretty good. on this one they were saying, look, the way this is going for the united states, this latest debt deal agreed to in the united states isn t cutting it. well shy of what we need. the fact. matter is, guys, whatever clapping and whooping up there was about a 2 trillion dollar debt deal, keep in mind over ten years we re adding 7 trillion dollars worth of debt. mike: true. the s & p folks were stating the obvious. clayton: and what s playing on main street right now. people at home watching fox & friends this morning say i don t know and care about the bickering back and fo
and we start drawing the contrast. this is what s at risk with this stupid actions. you know, when we create a 12 trillion dollar unfunded program, medicare part d. to not put a funding source, i ve not voted for the supplemental war because they weren t paid for. we didn t cut spending somewhere else to pay for it. we have to have that contrast drawn and americans have to get. they re making fak sacrifices for theirs families rye now. the fact we have a tug-of-war that we want to continue to grow the government instead of shrink it. i agree we can t shrink it too fast. that will have a negative impact as well. that s going to come. the question, the languager we wait the more painful and the harder because we re going get a downgrade if we don t make the proper choices. two last questions for you. i agree with what you re saying.
enjoy. and we start drawing the contrast. this is what s at risk with this stupid actions. you know, when we create a 12 trillion dollar unfunded program, medicare part d. to not put a funding source, i ve not voted for the supplemental war because they weren t paid for. we didn t cut spending somewhere else to pay for it. we have to have that contrast drawn and americans have to get. they re making fak sacrifices for theirs families rye now. the fact we have a tug-of-war that we want to continue to grow the government instead of shrink it. i agree we can t shrink it too fast. that will have a negative impact as well. that s going to come. the question, the languager we wait the more painful and the harder because we re going get a downgrade if we don t make the proper choices. two last questions for you.