anything fiscally responsible. obamacare has increased premiums. everything that he has done has ended up costing the american people more and more money. bob, i know you say over and over again deficits don t matter. but we have to pay interest on that. the interest that we re paying alone is upward of $129 billion. what were you going to say? bob: someone as smart as you should know it s not costing anything yet because it s not the place. andrea: it s costing premiums. bob: that is a ripoff. eric: greg, we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar from china. i m sure they are not thrilled at the rate we re spending. greg: the left always says that the spending is necessary. because they are saying it would be worse. it would be a depression if we didn t spend. one of those things that can never be proved. like arsonist burning down your house and said you would have slipped in the bathtub if i hadn t burned your house down. there is no way to argue against it. how are we bet
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention
the electric grids, the sidewalks. the giant hydro electric dams. and it also costs money when you don t keep the stuff you ve got in good repair. now, the talk in washington this week is all about spending cuts. how we have all got to sacrifice or the economy will never survive. but there s also this danger of a pennywise and pound foolish. you think you re saving money by cutting a corner, but you re actually making a bigger problem in the long run. now a new report by the american society of civil engineers warns that if we keep ignoring the problems with our roads and our bridges, we ll drag the american economy down by $3.1 trillion by 2020. we ll lose 877,000 jobs. already, shortcomings in our infrastructure cost us $129 billion last year. that is b-b-billion with a b, as in a mighty big number.
the stuff we use every day. the water mains and highways, the electric grids, the sidewalks. the giant hydro electric dams. and it also costs money when you don t keep the stuff you ve got in good repair. now, the talk in washington this week is all about spending cuts. how we have all got to sacrifice or the economy will never survive. but there s also this danger of a pennywise and pound foolish. you think you re saving money by cutting a corner, but you re actually making a bigger problem in the long run. now a new report by the american society of civil engineers warns that if we keep ignoring the problems with our roads and our bridges, we ll drag the american economy down by $3.1 trillion by 2020. we ll lose 877,000 jobs. already, shortcomings in our infrastructure cost us $129 billion last year. that is b-b-billion with a b, as
actually making a bigger problem in the long run. now a new report by the american society of civil engineers warns that if we keep ignoring the problems with our roads and our bridges, we ll drag the american economy down by $3.1 trillion by 2020. we ll lose 877,000 jobs. already, shortcomings in our infrastructure cost us $129 billion last year. that is b-b-billion with a b, as in a mighty big number. we lost $32 billion just waiting around for the chance to go. say what you want about tax breaks for the rich. but if you re stuck in traffic, your mercedes is stuck right along next to my chevy. and heaven for bid that a bridge falls down, because we are all in this together. rich, poor, whatever. infrastructure is like that. it s the ultimate expression of