problem in the election. i endorsed mitt romney which plays on his strengths that he knows how to get the economy working. the unemployment rate has gone from 9.1 in august to 8.5, that trajectory continues in the next six months and it will be below 8. for the american people i m glad that the trend is going in the right direction but the problem is this. you know, you think about the stimulus and having to borrow, you know, close to 800 billion plus from china and the administration had promised that it would go below 8%, so i think for the president still we re still way too high of where we need to be for people to feel good about our recovery. all right. let me ask you about the campaign. jon huntsman s comments there. yeah. others, too. you know, this is not this is a little bit unusual for the new hampshire front-runner to suddenly be in south carolina for basically half of yesterday and half of today. your reaction to that? my reaction i was with him yesterday at
distraction. the american people are well confirmed and well aware of how to deal with their religious affairs. they don t need congress telling them to trust in god. they can handle their own ideas. congress does need to promote the welfare that is not what we have been doing. we are out of our lane. we are in their religious affairs and not doing what he is supposed to do which is getting the economy working. when do you think the colleagues and yourself will get into the issue of creating jobs and a jobs bill stalled right now in parts as well. do you think the divide here is just too wide at the moment? i m optimistic. i am one of the people who believes until there is no point in it anymore. the american people are demanding that we do something on jobs. i was home this weekend and we were talking about them having a lot of pressure on them. theรง foreclosure crisis and fo
how do you get america back to work? what s the fast way that obama can try and solve this? you re asking the wrong guy in terms of that. i think that i do think that i think and you know, i ve been a big fan initially of obama but i think he missed the point in the very beginning. because jobs is what it is really about. in other words, other considerations, health care and the rest of it are all very worth while but we need to put people back to work. in other words, we about need to get the economy working. piers: do you think america needs to go back and build things again? it s forgotten what it did so magnificently 40, 50 years ago? not only do we need to put people to work we need to becomes more sophisticated in terms of technology. we need to look at what happened in terms of our educational system. if you line us up against other foreign countries in terms of education, et cetera, we are not the greatest anymore.
we ve got 10% jobless in america right now. how do you get america back to work? what s the fast way that obama can try and solve this? you re asking the wrong guy in terms of that. i think that i do think that i think and, you know, i ve been a big fan initially of obama, but i think he missed the point in the very beginning because jobs is what it is really about. in other words, other considerations, health care and the rest of it are all very worthwhile but we need to put people back to work. in other words, we need to get the economy working. do you think america needs to go back and build things again? do you think it s forgotten what it did so magnificently 40, 50 years ago? not only do we need to put people to work, we need to becomes more sophisticated in terms of technology. we need to take a look at what happened to our educational system. if you line us up against other foreign countries in terms of
i think that i do think that,ic, and i ve been a big fan, initially, of obama, but i think he missed the point in the very beginning, because jobs is what it s really all about. the other considerations, health care and all the rest, it s all very worthwhile, but we need to put people back to work. you need to get the economy working. do you think america needs to go back and build things again? do you think we ve forgotten what it did so magnificently 40, 50 years ago? well, not only do we feed to put people to work, we need to become more sophisticated in terms of technology. we need to take a look at what happened to our educational system. if you line us up against other foreign countries in terms of education, et cetera, we are not the greatest anymore. we pride ourselves on being the greatest, but we ve lost track of things. we ll take a short break, and when i come back, we ll bring a