my own view is that states should be putting in place right to work laws to allow the people of their states to participate and not join a union. governor, that sounds like a maybe on the getting rid of. 20 seconds left. at this time i would not oppose getting rid of all federal law. we have to rain in the power of the national labor relations board. my preference is return power and authority to the states. and we have to close it out at that point. every candidate has had exactly the same amount of time. governor romney, thank you for joining us tonight. up next, all six candidates coming back. their final thoughts on tonight s republican presidential forum.
overnight. matter of fact, i go to extreme of saying that for the for those individuals who have been totally de pen department, children and the el totally dependent, children, and there is a horrible budget crisis. it would be creating anarchy it would be so bad. if we wanted to save this country, we have to cut. i have a program where i want to cut a trillion dollars. a bunch comes from overseas, and a bunch comes from five departments. going back to the budget of 2006. actually, i would preserve some of the programs. when i present this program, i say for the purpose of phasing them out. for instance, my program actually allows people under 25 to get out of social security. but to cut that off and think you can do that overnight isn t going to work. you have to have a transition program. technically speaking they say, are they constitutional? where is the authority? i don t know where the
authority s. there is no authority for one penny to run education. i think that s why we are in such trouble. there is no respect at all for the constitution. congressman, you are very clear if you think they are unconstitutional. why would you sign a budget you think contains something unconstitutional? other than that, you have two choices, you can either work our way out of this, or you wait until it collaps and we have to rebuild it. i am just saying that you can t even on the federal reserve everybody knows my position on the federal reserve, and it is unconstitutional. i don t advocate you close down the federal reserve tomorrow. i have transition programs. and that makes a big difference. let me move to another topic. which comes first in your mind, the sovereignty of the people, the sovereignty of the states or the sovereignty of the federal government? and please put them in order. the people of the state and
dramatically. it is entirely opposite of the view. we need a federal government that sees its job as helping the private sector grow and add jobs. you mentioned hydrolic manufacturing. the state the current epa administrator is marching toward having a federal government overseas. would you put a stop to that? absolutely. u hit the nail in the head. the epa and the extreme voices and the party are frustrated beyond belief that the states have the regulatory authority of refracking. and right now, i guess something close to 70% of the oil wells have been fracked. they have managed it well, but the epa wants to get in and grab more power. basically they will try and move the whole economy away from oil, gas, coal, nuclear
and the authority back to the states, that s the place to begin. there may be a need for new legislation that comes forward , or there may be a limited role within anoth department to be able to take care of it. i am not opposed to the federal government. it is special certainly reasonable to deal with some of these issues, but let s look at what we are talking about with the epa. right now they want to impose a new tax because of cap and trade. they are changing our economy. they are literally writing the rules and taking over businesses because of what s happening with the epa because they are putting so much heavy burden and requirements you are talking to a crowd that are suing the epa in one way or another. what we were trying to get at is your alternative. i think you have probably and i am not opposed to new legislation to deal with that again. it is on a case by case basis or a very modified form. the current epa has to go.