decifit when the employment crisis is over. you know, what that s what s always been done. jamie: monica, i bush did it. i agree that we should be stimulating the economy but you don t do it through government and you don t do it through government spending, you do it through the private sector and the way you it you get that done is lowering taxes across the board and tkraoeg lating. the tax rate has never been lower. jamie: allow me my curiosity. chris, did you bring up solyndra as an example of good green jobs initiative? i said that all have pushed for green jobs on the left and right. romney did it, issa did it in his own district, so people want the jobs in their distributes and point to failures when they happen. look, everything is not going to succeed. this is a new industry. we should be making to make working to make it better. green energy is such a rousing thing for this economy and so great for america then they should be able to compete in the
cost of health care, debt and decifits, and debt and decifits was the issue on which romney had the biggest advantage over obama, 15-point advantage. i think that s why you re seeing obama try to make the case he s a fiscal conservative but i don t think it s believable. martha: doug, when break that down, you re a pollster, obviously, so when you look at it looks like mitt romney does well among white voters, middle class and above. it looks like he s having a very tough time with ethnic voters, latino voters, african-american voters. that he has that work cut out for him. he suitly does, martha. he s trailing on who can do more on more for you and your family, trailing on being in touch and while there are concerns on debt and decifit, this is by no means a slam dunk that economic issues are going to work for governor romney and i think it s fiscal polices have not been fleshed out other than massive cuts in entitlements and massive tax cuts for the rich and i think people are
republicans have answered, as we heard in the sound bite, before with massive tax cuts, and i basically think that the republicans have been irresponsible. i think charles krauthammer overstates the case. martha: there s a lot of discussion out there, obviously, about the debt, the decifit, and the polls show us that people do care about bringing it down, they do want to see spending cuts, as well as some of these other idea that is are out there, christian, so is the president being genuine in what he s saying about his own record in his administration? no, not at all, unfortunately. if you look at 2009, which is the year they sort of talk about as this horrible year, it was an anomaly, we had to have the stimulus, we had to have the bailouts, and democrats want to blame this on republican, but then to answer that doesn t answer the question of why 2010 and 2011 all looked just as bad. so yeah, the rate of growth of the spending didn t really change that much, because they kept do
i ve never been shy about leading. but you know, leaders need followers. we ve got 89 brand new members. we ve got a press disparite caucus. some say they re leading stkpwhraou and it s hard to keep 218 frogs in the while barrow long enough to get a bill passed. we all know we have to reduce the decifit. we have to do it in a balanced way. the speaker wants to go over the edge. martha: that expression about the 218 frogs in the wheel barrow, so basically they re saying if nothing is done before the election, it really is going to leave little time to cut a deal before the deadline. so joining us now is stuart varney, host of varney & company on fbn. so stuart, what does this mean for american taxpayers. let me pelst out for you. as of january 1st if nothing changes, everybody who works will pay more in social security tax, everybody who pays federal income tax will pay more in federal income tax, the tax on capital gains, dividends, and interest, all go up.
they have a responsibility to pass a budget every year. and i think if they re not willing to pass a budget they shouldn t receive any pay. but people across the country know what they want. they want a healthy economy. and the obama economy is not a healthy economy. gregg: but senator, what about the cumulative decifit? we re looking at the u.s. national debt clock, ticking away right now. but the decifit is expected to exceed $10 trillion over the next ten years. and extending the tax cuts would add an estimated $3.7 trillion to that. so aren t you making the debt and decifit much worse? well, by raising taxes on all americans, you re actually hurting the economy. what we need is more people working. we need an opportunity economy, a growth economy, a healthy economy, ways to get people back to work. if we have more people working and paying taxes, that s the way for over all tax revenue to go up and to deal with this. but you re right, the decifit is awful, the