we cut taxes on the top. we didn t end up we ended up with huge deficits. we didn t end up with a situation with faster growth. bill clinton as you know in the 1990s raised taxes just modestly on the top and we had a boom, 23 million jobs over eight years. on the paul ryan argument the real hopes there, even if we have to slow the growth of social security and medicare as the boomers age and we do that doesn t mean you deepen the hole we re in in terms of deficit by cutting taxes deeply on those who are best off and by slashing programs like medicaid that provides health care for the poor, food stamps, other services that a decent society should have as a safety net. in england by contrast you have david cameron, a conservative prime minister who is also an heir himself, not unlike a paul ryan or a romney in terms of his financial status. he has the exact opposite view. he put off a cut in the top marginal tax rate of oo% there which he pledged to do in the campaign because he said w
our way to lower gas prices. there are no quick fixes or silver bullets. what i have also said about gas prices is that there is no silver bullet and the only way we re going to solve this problem over the medium and long term is with an all of the above strategy. . i think the american people understand we don t have a silver bullet when it comes to gas prices. we have been talking about this for 30 years. martha: as you well know he has not employed an all of the above strategy in his energy policy. mitt romney out on the campaign trail says that he would start by firing the heads of the three departments that oversee our energy policy. what do you think about that? reporter: the republicans have the direct opposite view, yes there is something you can do about oil and gas prices. three years ago if we d had a dramatic let s drill for what we got in america policy you would not be in the situation we are in today. if the president turned around