companies rise dramatically after the election of president trump. here is the horror issue when it comes to these private prisons. we ve been using prisons as an economic indicator, driving jobs. you talk about what a sadistic. you literally have had communities competing for prisons because they re saying, hey, we need the jobs. yeah. well, hooer is the problem. you build a prison, you need more inmates because they say, well, if don t have the inmates, we need to shut down. absolutely right. i m going to leave you fiez with one gal lop poll comparing 2016 to 2003. 65% of americans thought the justice department should be tougher on crime. in 2016 that has dropped to 45%. had glen martin the founder and president of just leadership usa and possibly but not likely his brother. thanks to both of you guys. we ll be right back. thanks a lot.
best representative state, he did well. newt gingerich did not do well. i want to bring up something. gap lop poll shows santorum leading romney 36-26 among republicans, eric. well, it s swayed. he s the flavor of the month. i love what he s doing. the question is, is he pushing too far right? he s pushing far right. this is coming from you? here s the problem. you want the winner in the general. i m all for smaller government but when you go so far with the social issues, can you bring it back by general time? he s looking at a state like michigan, missouri, minnesota, but michigan, where one-third of the voters are catholic. it s also a republican primary so he has to stay on the social issues. he can t get off them because
mitt romney, if florida was the best representative state, he did well. newt gingerich did not do well. i want to bring up something. gap lop poll shows santorum leading romney 36-26 among republicans, eric. well, it s swayed. he s the flavor of the month. i love what he s doing. the question is, is he pushing too far right? he s pushing far right. this is coming from you? here s the problem. you want the winner in the general. i m all for smaller government but when you go so far with the social issues, can you bring it back by general time? he s looking at a state like michigan, missouri, minnesota, but michigan, where one-third of the voters are catholic. it s also a republican primary so he has to stay on the social issues. he can t get off them because
stop agreeing with andy. gal lop poll shows twice as many conservatives and liberal. michael, it is 2012. at what point do you think gal lop will realize there are other ways to describe yourself besides conservative, liberal and moderate. did they define those terms when they asked you? i don t think they do, no. if you had gotten surveyed for this, what would you say? i am none of that. i guess i would say moderate maybe. i don t know. which makes no sense. are you a radical nut bag. tom, you pointed out that more people would have described themselves as groovy in 1973 than would today. yes. and isn t that sad? it is. it is terrible. do you remember they held hands and sang about coca-cola back then? they did. they wanted to teach the world to sing. is that so bad? no, it isn t.
had weapons of mass destruction. i thought we had the military surveillance capability to see it if it were to have happened. i thought if we went into iraq we would have found ourselves in a civil war which there would be no end. would gary johnson s foreign policy be basically isolation or noninterventionist? no, a strong national defense. but i am promising to submit a balanced budget to congress in 2013 which is and we really don t have the time to talk about it, but i am proposing a 43% reduction in military spending believing that we can provide a strong national defense for this country. and cut the military by 43%. the operative word being defense as opposed to offense as opposed to nation building. i think the fact that we are bankrupt is the biggest threat to our national security. i don t have much time so i want to switch gears. you tacked about pot, and you said recently you think it is only a matter of time before it is legalized. 50% two weeks ago, gal lop poll