the 8,000 jobs that honda will be bringing to georgia. 3,000 jobs texas from sam sung. $17 billion investment. toyota, 1,700 jobs in north carolina. on battery technology. the situation where we re at we have created over 8 million new jobs where unemployment is down 3.6%. and so on is so forth. as if they re a problem. imagine what we would be with putin s tax and war on ukraine had we not made the enormous progress. gdp will grow faster than china for the first time in 40 years. we have problems with the rest of the world has. less consequential. because of our internal growth and strength. here s the situation, when it comes to the gas prices, we re going through an incredible
happening on the immigration front and a lot has happened over the course of the last 24 hours. administration official from the department of homeland security, the cpb, i.c.e. and others are getting together a program. they are literally putting detainee, immigrant detainees on planes from detention centers in texas, delry jobs texas and flying them to san diego, a grouch detainees arriving there yesterday evening. the plan is to fly at least three plane loads of 130 individuals from del rio, texas to san diego, at least three times a week. and the administration is letting it be known that they might expand this program further, might expand this program to other cities and they named them. detroit, buffalo, new york and miami. and you better believe a lot of the politicians in all of those places in particular florida are really railing against this plan that was announced by dhs and there s some back tracking going on.
picking up a little bit. they have sales jobs as well. state farm the nation s largest insurance companies. they have auto, life, disability. they are hiring. they are trying to promote agency ownership. it is almost like a franchise opportunity. anyway 1200 positions are open right now. they need independent contractors that s the franchise thing i was talking about. they need people who can do sales 1200 jobs texas, california, pennsylvania, illinois, michigan, indiana. also they are working with hire american heros the group looking to get veterans hired. they are look to go pair up basically about a thousand veterans in that process right now with people that run have those franchise agreements with state farm the ownership agreements you own an agency because veterans can move into that as well depending on the skills they have in the field in the battlefield. that s great. hostess. twinkies.
texas has created over a million jobs. you can t ignore that. now, i ve got a i ve got a home i guess a home country question for you. whenchele bachmann and talked about the country needing a margaret thatcher, you actually agreed with that comparison. why? there are a lot of things that are very similar to early margaret thatcher, there s no doubt about that at all. i mean, margaret thatcher was famously asked about whether or not she would do a u-turn on something, and she said the l y lady s not for turning. michele bachmann is one of the honest politicians i ve ever met. when it comes to policies, she s so focused, there s no chance she would be driven offer on hrs could repeal obama care and cut the taxes and balance the budget, she is not for turning. she does have a spine made of titanium and she s very reminiscent of early margaret thatcher, she s also incredibly smart. so, why aren t you supporting
christine romans will show you why iowa voters may not be asking the same questions as you. let s go ahead and begin with jim in west des moines. you ve been with rick santorum almost 24/7. you do let the guy sleep. what s that been like? reporter: it has been amazing to watch, kyra. who would have thought when all of this got start that had we would be chasing rick santorum around in the final 24 hours before the iowa caucuses that the international press, he had the japanese, the german and the french, the british press all tailing him yesterday and testifies drawing some very big crowds partly because he is sort of the last alternative to mitt romney to emerge in this process because a lot of evangelical voters in the state have finally said, you know what, let s go with rick santorum inside this high school gymnasium later on this morning along with michele bachmann and ron paul to make some final arguments as a rock the caucus forum here in west des moines. so we re go