2024 and social security nine years later in 2330. we ll see a degradation of benefits from 25 to 30%. one of the most important things to do is to strengthen social security. i believe in protecting and preserving it. that s when i look at such political gimmicks such as this payroll tax cut, it s really defunding of social security and it s pushing closer to the cliff. so i think that we ve got to get americans back to work. when you look at our work force participation rate, it s at a 31-year lower at only 63.7 percen%.we re driving people toe comment on government, not driving people to open up small business opportunities and promote our business development, production and manufacturing in this country. look. if we look at unemployment, it is at 58.1%. it s the lowest since 1983. long term unemployment, the highest since the 1930s, so the numbers do speak for themselves. let me go to the social security issue. we know in the next 120 days
things the rest of us completely miss. it s really quite remarkable. this is actually very helpful what you re seeing here, because republicans have been arguing behind a screen using lumpy words like deregulation. that doesn t mean much to anybody except maybe the government has too many rules. when you start talking about getting rid of child labor laws, does the country really think we should return to the grand old days when 11-year-olds worked in factories? i don t think so. so there is a clarity here. and i think what s being made clear is that this generation of conservatives doesn t want to move us back to the 1980s. they want to move us back to the 1880s. and 1890s. to the gilded age when there weren t any regulations. so i do think this is a clarifying moment. and, well, they also want to take us back to the mid 2000s on this social security issue where george w. bush in 2004 was very overt about the fact he wanted to spend political capital that he earned in being re-ele
miss. it s really quite remarkable. this is actually very helpful what you re seeing here, because republicans have been arguing behind a screen using lumpy words like deregulation. that doesn t mean much to anybody except maybe the government has too many rules. when you start talking about getting rid of child labor laws, does the country really think we should return to the grand old days when 11-year-olds worked in factories? i don t think so. so there is a clarity here. and i think what s being made clear is that this generation of conservatives doesn t want to move us back to the 1980s. they want to move us back to the 1880s. and 1890s. to the gilded age when there weren t any regulations. do i think this is a clarifying moment. and, well, they also want to take us back to the mid 2000s on this social security issue where george w. bush in 2004 was very overt about the fact he wanted to spend political capital that
up of mostly 20-somethings, they re angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress s lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she walke
and i think there s a strong case to be made that his statements on social security are enormously problematic in a republican primary. if you look at the migration into south carolina, the coastal areas, and horry county among northeastern retirees, and obviously you look at the retiree population in the state of florida, many of whom will be voting and participating in a republican primary, a debate about social security as opposed to the republican candidate going and being able to talk about economic growth, expanding the economy, keeping the focus on the president s economic reco record, republicans clearly want it to be the latter, not the former. so i think the social security issue is going to be a defining issue not just in our general election if rick perry were the nominee but i think it would be a big issue in the primary election. ? let s bring in editorial director for aol, huffington