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Joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. welcome to fox news sunday. good to see you again, chris. you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say and i will read the quote you take on stupid whereever is exists. what is stewed by with romney and the republicans. i don t want to describe either governor romney or the republicans as stupid but i will say this. if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it is from another century and maybe even two. it looks like the platform of 1812. when you see that they want to repeal the affordable care act providing 32 million people with healthcare with no alternative plan of their own, they call for the self-deportation of 11 million people. no country in the world has ever done that. ....
Decade out of our deficit. a plan to extend medicaid by 8 years. plan that will say let s take taxes on the top 2% of america back to where they were under president clinton when we had an economy that generated 23 million jobs and importantly we that started with deficits and ended with surpluses. chris: you talk about addressing the long-term problems. let s take one example. the president appointed his own commission, the boles simpson commission which came up with this big bipartisan plan to take $4 trillion out. came out with its recommendations. the president ignored the recommendations and let them die. you said if you had been a member of coc congress you woud have absolutely voted for boles simpson. the president took agelast as president of the conference of ....
We just had a discussion about what is needed to. chris: never is not the short-term. but. chris: never is not the short-term and simpson boles. to stablize the debt. go ahead. chris: simpson boles that was your presidential commission and you ignored it. i notice that congressman ryan made that point in his speech without mentioning that he was on the commission and voted against it and why did he vote against it? because it called for tax cuts. tax increases on upper income americans and the other party. chris: david he voted against it because it didn t do anything about entitlements. it is a fair point that he didn t mention it but that isn t why but the point it was the president s commission and he let it die on the vine. the party took another position. he didn t let it die on the vine, chris. it helped shape his proposals. he has a plausible credible $4 trillion plan. the congressional budget office said it as plussible credible plan. everyone agrees if it wer ....
Unemployment benefits and to train workers. question, how many jobs will that create? independent andthe in dehe lits have given is it will immediately give us a million more job. we need to take those steps in the short run to accelerate the economy but we need to take steps in the long run and the question is do we do that by cutting taxes for the wealthy or pay down the deficit and invest in things like education and training, research and development and innovation. clean energy technology, infrastructure. the president has a balanced plan for the long-term as well as a plan for the short-term. governor romney has neither. moody say if we enacted the romney plan it would actually ratchet down the recovery in the short-term and would balloon our deficits in the long-term and h his plan according to the book brookings ....
What is needed to. chris: never is not the short-term. but. chris: never is not the short-term and simpson boles. to stablize the debt. go ahead. chris: simpson boles that was your presidential commission and you ignored it. i notice that congressman ryan made that point in his speech without mentioning that he was on the commission and voted against it and why did he vote against it? because it called for tax cuts. tax increases on upper income americans and the other party. chris: david he voted against it because it didn t do anything about entitlements. it is a fair point that he didn t mention it but that isn t why but the point it was the president s commission and he let it die on the vine. the party took another position. he didn t let it die on the vine, chris. it helped shape his proposals. he has a plausible credible $4 trillion plan. the congressional budget office said it as plussible credible plan. everyone agrees if it were enacted it would have a very ....