mitt, now is not the time in a recession to enter a trade war. ronald reagan flew this plane, i was in china during the trip in 1984. he went on tv and spoke to the chinese people. i d love to do that too, in chinese itself, and he talked about this, we are the most blue sky, optimistic people on earth, we re going to find solutions, and i have an offer for the two great governors over here, and i hate to rain on the parade of the lone star governor, but as governor of utah, we were the to be creator of jobs. 5.9% while you were creating jobs at 4.9%, and to mitt, 47 is not going to cut it, not when you can be first. we have to remember, to beat president obama, we have to have somebody who s been in the private sector, understands the fragility of the free market system, has been a successful governor as it relates to job creation, and knows something
this is a bold plan and a bold solution. additionally, something as simple as 9-9-9, it gives us a mechanism to help those cities are the most blighted in terms of empowerment zones, and we can modify that very easily versus the current code. mr. cain, thank you. mr. huntsman, as you know, mr. romney s new plan calls for the u.s. government to officially label china a currency manipulator, but the wall street journal says it would cause a trade war. in your view, what does governor romney not get about china? he doesn t get the part that what will fix the u.s./china relationship realistically is fixing our core right here at home, because our core is weak, and it is broken, and we have no leverage at the negotiating table, and i d have to say,
we are back, and as we said, this is the final portion of our debate. the campaigns have told us they wish not to have anything called anything close to a lightning round, but let s just say we d like the frequency and velocity of the questions to quicken in this segment. we ll try to move it along and fit a lot in. starting with you, governor romney, are you a member of the tea party? i don t think you carry cards in the tea party. i believe in a lot of what the tea party believes in. the tea party believes that government s too big, taxing too much, and we ought to get americans to work, so i put together a plan with a whole series of points to get america s economy going again. so if the tea party is for keeping government small and spending down and helping us create jobs, then hey, i m for the tea party. governor perry, you missed
have in place today, and young people who are paying into that, expect that program to be sound and for them to receive benefits when they reach retirement age, that is just a lie, and i don t care what anyone says, we know that, the american people know that, but more importantly, those 25-year-olds know that. governor romney, let s be blunt, let s be blunt, democrats are itching to use that kind of provocative language, but you yourself say there s problems, how do you have a candid question about social security without scaring seniors? the funding program of social security is not working, and congress has been raiding the dollars from social security to pay for annual government expenditures. that s wrong. the funding, however, is not an issue. in the book fed up, you say by any measure social security is a failure. you can t say that to tens of
we need to create an environment that the small businessmen and women know they have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. as a matter of fact, john kennedy said that the most powerful welfare reform program was a job, and that s what we need to get focussed on in this country today. we re going to take some questions that have come into us via twitter, john? these are questions we invited questions to politico, thousands came in. one of them, i ll ask you, governor romney. referring to congresswoman bachmann s promise to get gas, if she becomes president, to down to $2 a gallon. do you believe a president realistically can do anything about gas prices in the free market? what a president can do is make sure we stop spending about $500 billion outside our country, nations not friendly to