mixed views to some extent. i m enormously proud to be an american. and to have had the opportunity to serve. i think the potential is virtually unlimited in terms of the future of this nation and what we can accomplish and achieve. by the same token i m concerned about the problems we see today. this long term debt problem is important. i sense also that it is important that we not as we try to deal with those deficit problems, lose sight of the importance of maintaining our nation s security. i think that is our number one obligation and responsibility as a government. i worry in this rush to get our deficit problem solved, which is very important that we will end up in a situation where the defense department in effect bears the burden rather than the domestic side of the house. i think that would be unfortunate. but i think the next generation will have
accountable. american voters will never forget who is responsible and never forgive them for it. eric: they blame president obama that he s responsible because he s in the man in the oval office. what president obama did was stand up to the extreme elements in the republican party and struck a bipartisan compromise what he needs to do now is focus on putting americans back to work and rebuilding the middle class. the only way fix our deficit problems is putting americans back to work a jobs program. eric: the chances of that jobs program passing? if republicans in the house decided to start working with the president rather than against him and stop catering to the extreme almosts in the party we are all going to keep getting burned if they keep doing that. they need to silence the extremists. we have to work to the. republicans and democrats and independents, to accomplish that. eric: gretchen fire of the tea party caucus. explosive words.
romney served one term as governor, perry is in his third. that s what this is about. i m running for office because i believe that having spent my life in the private sector meaning in business, that i understand what it takes to get business going again. and perry s rebuttal? give him my love. and claim to have the job creation bragging rights. 40% of all the jobs created in america from june of 2009 until the present were created in texas. i know how to create jobs. a packed hour ahead, including putting that claim from governor perry to the truth test and showing you how the early 2012 map is so different from 2008. here to get us started are jessica yellin. and from austin texas tonight, mr. herman. to you first, my friend. governor perry is in the race. president obama is in the midwest. they re in the same state of iowa. suddenly today we have a campaign of contrast? yes. it took a while for him to say it officially. you saw it officially saturday in sout
i m running for office because i believe that having spent my life in the private sector, meaning in business, that i understand what it takes to get business going again. and perry s rebuttal? well, part texas macho. give him my love. and part acclaim to have the job creation bragging rights. 40% of all the jobs created in america from june of 2009 until the present were created in texas. i know how to create jobs. a compact hour ahead including putting governor perry to the truth test and showing you how the 2012 map is so very different from 2008. here is jessica yellin. in austin, ken herman of the austin american statesman. governor perry is in the race. president obama is in the midwest. they re in the same state of iowa. perry was here this morning, obama s there now. suddenly today we have a campaign of contrasts. yeah, it s amazing it seems to have come upon us so quickly. many of us in texas expect head would run governor perry, i m speaking of. but
people are being put in a worse economic condition on main street and martin luther king, jr. boulevard because sometimes main street and other streets are not the same in other cities. ceo pay keeps going up. we see large company kre o pay around 10 to $12 million year while wages of most people continue to drop. even if they have jobs, their wages are going down. their benefits are being eviscerated. right now the absurdity is that most americans, even if they have jobs, they can t turn around and buy things to generate more jobs. companies are not going to hire additional people if there are not customers. we are trapped in a vicious cycle right now. this is the key to it. unless there is a jobs plan on the scale that we need, let s put to one side the long-term debt, long-term deficit problems. that will take care of itself to some extent if we get people