be quiet about that. were the american people at all misled in your opinion by the president on those two big fronts? okay. well, the lowering the corporate tax rate was always a big part of it and something i ve always talked about. we had a 35% corporate tax rate, europe was down around 20%, the same for asia, give or take a point or two. so we were out of competition with the rest of the world. look, president obama wanted to lower the corporate tax rate to 28% in 2012. get that. what i m asking you, if the president and his team kept selling this no cuts for the wealthy and big middle class tax cuts and he said yesterday was the biggest part was the corporate tax cuts. did he mislead the american people? no, he didn t and i think it s unfair to mischaracterize that. this is an incentive for job creators and basically what we ve been doing the last few years is taxing job creators at 35% while the world was around
i don t want to be made unsafe but, chris 225 different terrorist plots over the past year since 9/11 and so far not one of them has been tied dream to the n.s.a. collection of data. if this is so effective how commit hasn t resulted in the foiled terrorist plots? those have been foiled by old fashioned good police work, old fashioned human intelligence. it seems like we are spending billions of dollars on the whiz bang technology and not enough money on human resources which really is proving to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism. let s turn, now to your candidacy. you announced it three weeks ago. i was struck listening to your campaign announcement, you made up some bold policies. i want to drill down into those. you said first of all no cuts,