Huckabee Talks Jobs

" Got Governor Huckabee here with us so let's just pick up right what we weren't there the priority part. We've got health care reform we GAAP financial regulatory reform we've got cap and trade in unemployment going through the roof all the priorities wrong at the White House. "

" Totally messed up. -- you know nobody in America right now is talking about oh my gosh we've gotta do health care we gotta do it this weekend they're saying. Will I get a job anytime soon cannot pay my bills going to get the rent paid. And now they're looking at not only a jobless rate it's going -- out the roof. But they're looking at taxes that are going to create more jobs lost this is insanity."

" So governor what was the problem army do you think part of the problem is that. Maybe the president is really good -- campaigning but he's never really had to govern anything."

" He's never run anything even so much as a snow -- stand and I'm not trying to be disrespectful but if you've never actually been the chief executive. Of a business and you've signed the front of the paycheck. You may not be aware that when you start having to. Jettison your cost the first thing you do this is cut people. Because it's the only thing that you can really control you can't control your fixed cost of rent and utilities. And some of the inventory the only way you can start surviving and one of the reasons that we're seeing such. A decline in really the jobless numbers and an uptick in the unemployment numbers. Is because companies small and large are having to do the same thing with fewer and fewer employees. Now."

" Also though do you think there's a sense from these same businesses that there's disarray in Washington and that's a business. The last thing you want to do is make an investment when you don't know the outcomes going to be what the future --"

" You absolutely have to do that Charles because if if you're in a situation where you don't know what your cost your fixed cost are going to be. Did you start hunkering down and protecting your cash first thing you gotta do well if you think about the impact of cap and trade I've had small business operators on my shows said. Cap and trade passes the first thing they do is lay off they're not sure they can survive they're working on anywhere from one to 3% profit margins now. Add to that the cost of increase health care and taxes is go with that and you're just putting nails in coffin and the body's already cold."

" So this already rural small opinion of Washington. Out there the president doesn't Joyce still relatively high approval ratings although they come down dramatically from -- at the moment in them inaugurated. What is it about Washington that that they don't listen to the people on the and then they want to people to listen to them in other words. People are screaming after they had that people want want. Why doesn't this resonate don't want NY."

" And because they don't play by the rules of the people are planned by they don't have to worry about it they still get a job. They're going to get their check nobody's gonna say all right we're going to cut congressional pay if you don't balance the budget we ought to be talking about that. They got their pay raises they still get their benefit packages no cuts there. Their travel is covered nobody's going to cut that back the staff is told they haven't had to go and say we're going to lay off 20% or even. 5% of the congressional staff. Let members of congress start experiencing what people of homer experiencing they'll have a better understanding -- long as they're breeding the rarefied air of the beltway. Disconnected. To the very people are supposed to be working for. We're going to continue to have this problem it's a great opportunity for the Republicans if they seize upon it."

" You know you -- you're describing his arrogance and I gotta dismantle because I just flip through your book a little bit today. And there's wept and early in the book you talk about when you were eleven years old. -- they elected get down Gorey a that the moral of that story for the audience the."

" Of all the story was I'd basically laid it on a lot of my parents on electric guitar are nothing and they almost gave me nothing. Which I deserve that was an arrogant little jerk at eleven. They ended up giving me guitar making a great sacrifice to do it. Here's the moral of the story my parents like so many parents of that era made sacrifices. For their children to live a better life. Today our leaders are sacrificing our children so they themselves can with a better life. It is a frightening turn of how we have historically been a great country where we always looked at the next generation and said. We will sacrifice so our kids can be our shoulders and see things we've never seen before Governor Huckabee that's why you're so I'm a straw polls at low rate to be with you -- for."