policy, to tax policy, i m going to get america more attractive for jobs. number two, shrinking government, we re going to go through the budget and eliminate programs, send a lot of programs back to states and back to the private sector to run more efficiently, with less fraud and abuse. number three, i talk about how we get ourselves out of the debt and the deficits that we have. we simply have to have a president that s willing to tackle the big issues that we face and our national balance sheet is overwhelmed with the expenses of medicare and social security. not for current retirees. those programs aren t going to change for those retired or near retirement. but for devon, he ought to know what the deal is. as he s getting into the work force, he ought to know where will medicare and social security be for him and the changes i would make would be these: i d say to devon, if you re higher income, then you ll have less benefits than if you re lower income. huckabee: we have to wr
grown up as at this in a steel town and lose jobs and understand what it means to have folks that you grew up with being left behind. we see a lot of that going on in this country today. a lot of folks feeling like they re paddling alone and not having the opportunities to be able to rise in society. that s why i put together a very bold economic plan, the wall street journal called it a supply side economics for the working man. we ve got a plan that s going to go out and create opportunities for everybody, from the bottom of the ladder up. someone that is going to go down and fight in washington, d.c., has a record of reforming government and changing the tax code and fighting for private sector health care reform. we ve been able to do that. you give us the opportunity. we ll fight for you and get big things done in washington. huckabee: thank you very much. that was senator rick santorum from pennsylvania. and our final speaker, the order was chosen by a random drawing and to c
various circumstances and instances. i thought that governor mitt romney s response about your son was very powerful. thank you. huckabee: i agree. he was very he was very responsive and very emotional about it as well. huckabee: you could see that. i agree with you. charlie, let s ask you, what happened tonight, as you listened to the candidates, did you go away saying that guy really nailed that answer? i hate to be part of the chorus here, i thought they all did a pretty good job. i thought it was great that we got part of the forum, we got mitt romney to reduce his economic plan from 59 as he pointed out, mind numbing details to 7 morocco hasn t details which was really good. i don t think you would get that at a debate. i was most impressed with rick santorum. if you listened to the press so much, you could say there are gaffes on his part where he
on actions prior to the bailout which set the template for the bailout and i believe you have to have a principled approach to letting capitalism work or not and the idea of bailing out wall street and bailing out even though they re important institutions, there would be an opportunity for us to recover. i don t think there is any question there would have been a bigger down turn, but we d be on a steeper upturn instead of floundering around. no more too big to fail? no. look, we memorialized it and what do we have? bigger banks with bigger shares which leads to future bailout and also leads to behavior on the part of the bankers that says, you know what? hey, let s take a little take your risk because there is always someone behind us just in case we fail. would you pay huckabee: i hate to interrupt and go to dave. two years ago, my company was
democrats and i know, 06 was a pretty bad year. i happened to run that year. democrats basically ran the table on almost every state where there was a race. we have an opportunity to get a lot of those seats back and we flip it, 23 of those 33 seats held by republicans, we have a 60-vote majority. we only need shift three or four sites and have an opportunity to be a majority and then get some democrats to work with us. democrats, a lot of democrats come from states like i do. they re not big fans of wall street and what went on there. they re looking for something that s reasonable that will allow small business communities to get the loans they need. huckabee: dave? regulations, regulation, regulations. right now, one of the major one that s killing us is health care. on wednesday, our employees saw their new health plan, 2012, the deductible went from $2,250 to $6,000. people were mad. tears were visible. medical savings plans that mothers depend on were gutted. you say you re g