a rirm for republican presidential hopefuls, the candidates can t seem to help campaigning off the good work that the stimulus has done. here s what the candidates say about the stimulus and president obama s economic policy. i want to use every ounce of my experience to get america working again. by the way, that doesn t happen with a little stimulus. the stimulus didn t work. the president has had over two years to fix this economy and he has failed. but they are only too happy to use companies that have ceased the campaign backdrops. in july, willard, mitt romney, an ohio plant. they ve got $220,000 worth of stimulus contracts. the next month, a company that also got about 200,000 in stimulus funds. and willard s not the only one who has done the photo ops that
any compromise here? say that again, mika. any compromise here? well, the infrastructure, i think you were talking about that earlier. that does work, obviously. and we ve been planning long this fall for doing our transportation bill. the problem with that is it takes a long time to get that through the pipeline. that s not instant jobs like some people try to market it as. but obviously infrastructure does create jobs. i don t think you can deny that. what we don t like is repeating mistakes. look, bush tried temporary tax rebates, obama tried temporary tax rebates and they have proven not to create jobs. all this temporary booster shock stimulus didn t work on the stimulus package, didn t work when the last administration tried these things. we don t want to go with ideas that have proven to fail, we want to go with ideas that have proven to succeed. i think tax reform is the key. and what i liked about the president s speech, he had a sentence or two dedicated toward cleani
believe. mark zandi, john mccain, one of his economic advisers thinks this will grow gross domestic product and grow jobs as a comprehensive package. we hope it will considered as a comprehensive package. are there some parts some people like better than others, i think that s accurate. mark zandi said 2 million jobs may be created from the plan. however, not all republicans agree on that. they are agreeing on some. house republicans are open to some ideas. i will play a clip from earlier, paul ryan saying this. all this temporary booster shot stimulus didn t work in stimulus package, didn t work when the last administration tried these things, so we don t want to go with ideas that have proven to fail, we want ideas that have proven to succeed. i think tax reform is the key. will they work together with you? i think tax reform is very important. i hope the special committee
you know, for me, this election is about one issue primarily, it s about job getting the economy growing again. unfortunately, we ve got a president, president obama, who believes the way to do that is to raise taxes, spend more of our money, borrow more money. he s proposed stimulus part two, even when the first stimulus didn t work, didn t keep unemployment below 8 percent like he promised, hasn t proposed how he wants to eliminate the $14 trillion debt. you contrast that with governor rick perry, as governor of texas the last two years, they ve created nearly half the jobs created in this country, he understands we ve got to cut regulations, cut taxes, control government spending. fundamentally, governor perry understands that the federal government doesn t create jobs, that the federal government spends our money when it creates new government jobs, it actually costs taxpayers. rick understands the private sector creates jobs. he s not just talking the talk, he s walked the walk.
were entirely lost in this, will get nothing. so, i think that there s a lot that s going to have to be looked into it and we re going to start hearing about it in the hearings and i think it will be a week, postponed a week because the president of the company wanted another week of preparation. but he s going to have a lot of explanation to do. bret: june, the month after the president visited the company, mara, solyndra canceled its ipo. and then, there was this, as charles mentioned, the effort by kaiser and others to put more money in. the doe, the department of energy, kind of refinanced its loan to push back the date of payback to give it some more breathing room and it eventually fell apart. the white house is saying in response the application first moved forward in the bush administration. well, it didn t. bret: it didn t finally get finalized until the obama administration. look, the question here, is this going to end up being an example of how the stimulus didn t w