net jobs created. it s pretty hard to prove or disprove that number, isn t it? that s right. first remember that a lot of the companies that bain an kir choired in the period when he was there are privately held and you can t just walk in the front door and say how many did you fire, how many did you hire. the 100,000, the study comes from jobs created over a pretty long period of time by three companies that bain had a roll in turning around. you have to decide if you want to credit bain for all the jobs they ve created since bain owned that company. it s very hard to get a firm number on the job creation number of mitt romney or the job killing record in his time at bain. and ali, this one i m scratching my head. i ve never heard the free market system, capitalism put on trial in a republican primary. romney s opponents don t want him to open 3-0. they are going after what he
easy to attack. i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means if you don t like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. if someone doesn t give me good service, i want to say i m going to get somebody else to provide that service to me. seven of those words, i like being able to fire people, knocked front-runner romney back on his heels. jim acosta joins from us bedford, new hampshire. i get the bigger context. not so controversial if you listen to it all and hear it out. isn t he supposed to know better? you would think so, john. i was in that room with governor romney when he made those comments. the people listening to him, it was granted a chamber of commerce audience. they didn t really notice this as any sort of gaffe or stumble. but in the context of the narrative that he has been in in the last 24 hours, these were no