revenues have been 18 percent of g.d.p. federal spending has been roughly 20 percent of g.d.p. in the last three years it has gone from 20 percent of g.d.p. to 25 percent of g.d.p. and the policies of this administration, the obama administration, have waged a war on jobs and a war on small business. i listen to axelrod a few minutes ago talk about getting the economy going and why there weren t anymore jobs. without taking any blame for the fact that their policies killed thousands and thousands of jobs, whether it is obamacare, or dodd-frank or pushing cap and trade or the offshore drilling moratorium. at the end of the day, two-thirds of all new jobs come from small business. we need to get boot of the federal government off the back of neck of small business. chris: you talk about the key to the republican energy is to tap into the grass roots. do you think romney is tapping
revenues have been 18 percent of g.d.p. federal spending has been roughly 20 percent of g.d.p. in the last three years it has gone from 20 percent of g.d.p. to 25 percent of g.d.p. and the policies of this administration, the obama administration, have waged a war on jobs and a war on small business. i listen to axelrod a few minutes ago talk about getting the economy going and why there weren t anymore jobs. without taking any blame for the fact that their policies killed thousands and thousands of jobs, whether it is obamacare, or dodd-frank or pushing cap and trade or the offshore drilling moratorium. at the end of the day, two-thirds of all new jobs come from small business. we need to get boot of the federal government off the back of neck of small business. chris: you talk about the key to the republican energy is to tap into the grass roots. do you think romney is tapping
chamber of commerce here in the united states and in canada. what is with the business climate here? if you are a senator, ted cruz, what would you do to change it? guest: well, unfortunately for the past throw years, president obama has waged a war on jobs, and a war on small businesses. right now the federal government is like a boot on the back of the neck of small business. we need leaders in washington, dc, who will stand up and stop the obama war on jobs. i m running on a 12-point jobs and growth plan. eric: give me the first, give me the two biggest ones. guest: repeal obamacare. revoke the offshore drilling moratorium. stop the abuse of enforcement of environmental laws. slash the corporate tax rate. stop the assault on right-to-work states. repeal dodd-frank, allow small and medium companies to opt out of the sarbanes.
be spending this year. big oil companies are getting 20 billion dollars worth of subsidies. i can t see any argument being made coming at the expense of what about lifting offshore drilling moratorium? the president can do more. that s the perception he is fighting if he doesn t beat back the perception he will be pumping his own gas in november, because he will be out of a job. rick: so much focus on the unemployment numbers. if folks paying $60, $70 to fill up their tank isn t that the number that the president s reelection hopes are going to be riding on? i don t think it is the sole number. i agree, for some of those people i see riding around in suv s spending $100 every couple days to fill those tanks up, i know it is real, really getting them right in the pocketbook. the issue is not whether or not the president can do this in the short term it is about
all of these negative reviews. it shows he doesn t really get it. i want to push back on this idea that obama can t do anything about the price of gas. i agree the tools are limited and we believe in a market mechanism and all of the rest. but first of all, when oil hit $145 a gallon on july 14, 2008, bush announced that we were going to lift the offshore drilling moratorium through an executive order and proceeded to drop over the next few days and months, almost 50%. that really plummeted after that. after the gulf oil spill in the gulf of mexico, obama did the same thing bush had done after one of the after katrina, which is suspend the jones act, which right now the law is that only american flagged vessels can transport oil from one port to another on american soil. and that limits the flow of amount of gasoline you can get from port to port. if you lifted that, the unions who support obama would be very, very angry, but everyone seems