everything else. but on immigration, on regulation, on foreign policy, it s simple, clear, direct and optimistic and enthusiastic about the future of individual liberty in the country and even the second amendment, he finished with a flourish about the second amendment which is very popular in new hampshire and gun rights. talked about ended the speech with the phrase live free or die. it s corny but it s what the new hampshire people love. as i say, he got a standing ovation at the end. mark, i m going to dig in to 9-9 f -9 later in the show. now that he s the front-runner, the details are going to matter. it s simply an abolish medicare, abolish social security plan, not only stop the funding to them, actually abolish them. there s a lot there that s going to hurt him as this campaign progresses if, if mitt romney decides to go after him. i mean, mitt romney went after rick perry simply for calling social security a ponzi scheme
10,000 gallons. that s the size of a good sized back yard swimming pool. so obviously, this thing is fully involved, they have every fire department they can get trying to pump water on this thing. but right now, it is just black clouds, boiling into the sky over waxahachie, texas, the magablend facility is very much on fire. we ll keep you posted. no injuries to report just yet, but we don t obviously, it s early in the going on this thing. we ll get more information to you as quickly as we can. republican presidential candidate rick perry has repeatedly called social security a ponzi scheme. the texas governor is saying that people ought to control their own retirement money instead. but perry doesn t have to look far to see how a private i d social security plan might work. kris gutierrez live from dallas with that. back in the early 80s
time for the big three this politics. three topics, three talkers. today the sunshine state surprise, the straw poll that stole spotlight from perry and romney. president obama fired up and ready to go on jobs and chris chris ti, could he be a gop tender. erin mcpike and erin, i m sorry, you didn t get the memo to be here. i guess not. i ll begin with you erin to make sure you re not out of the conversation. herman cain winning the florida straw poll. what happened? what happened is i actually think herman cain had a great debate performance in florida this past week. and you know, he said some specific things. he talked about his nine, nine, nine tax proposal. he also brought up social security and said i have proposed a chilean plan. the plan that s in chile and he said 30 countries have taken on this sort of social security
want to care for those in our need. you cannot keep the status quo in place and call it anything but a ponzi scheme. that is what it is. americans know that. regardless of what any says, maybe it s time to have provocative language. did he have no choice but to drill down on the point he made in his book or could he have done something to, i don t know, at least fix it? you can t win on a broad level with that message, can you? he could have celebrated the programs early years that americans have benefited from. he could have been more reassuring for current retirees and talked about what his ideas were to save the system. one of his aids said it s not clear it will have a specific social security plan. he needed a better, reassuring answer even without backing off on the book.
the leader of a democratic party can force them to do something they don t want to do. i do think the president has been wise and bold in putting social security on the table. i also think it s common sense. when you know the table doesn t work anymore, you have to do something to fix this system. i think that fix is the right one. the one he s talking act is a good one. i have a social security plan on the table that i think is a good one. we should have entitlements on the table. however, you then say they have to put taxes in the pot, too. i just think that if you go out and talk to the business people especially the small ones in this country, they can t take one more pit and hire people. what about closing tax loopholes? all the tax loopholes we have heard about whether for oil companies or the tax loopholes