those components, as the waste breaks down into methane gas. methane is then used to power the gas lights in the park at night. interesting. coming up in one hour from now, we are taking a close look at the sex abuse scandal facing one of the country's most popular ministers. bishop eddie long will be joined by ted haggard who had his own sex scandal as a minister. plus, we'll speak with several ministers of the new birth congregation. members of the new birth congregation to find out how they are dealing with the allegations and what exactly is going to happen tomorrow. that's in one hour from now. i'll see you then. former president bill clinton fighting for embattled democrats ahead of an election that could cost the party control of congress. this hour, his advice to president obama and candidates in peril. also in our interview, clinton's take on the tea party. he is warning that underestimating the movement could be a huge mistake. a lot of people want to know how clinton slimmed down for his

daughter, chelsea's, wedding. stand by as he reveals his weight loss secret that he says is now a way of life. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama challenged the united nations this week to seize the moment and embrace middle east peace. he spoke at length about the conflict in his speech before the united nations general assembly on thursday. >> peace must be made by israelis and palestinians, but each of us has a responsibility to do our part as well. those of us that are friends of israel, to understand the true security for the jewish state requires >> the rights of the palestinian

people will be won only through peaceful means, including genuine recommend onsill yags with a secure israel. >> i spoke this week with a veteran of middle east diplomacy, the former president bill clinton, as he was hosting his clinton global initiative meeting in new york. we covered a wide range of topics, but, first, listen to his take on whether the israelis and the palestinians are finally ready to give peace a chance. >> you have a session that you are hosting here during this current cgi on the middle east. i know you worked really hard, and we discussed this in cape town in south africa recently if there's -- a president and palestinian prime minister, is this doable, do you think, in the next year realistically, or is this just, you know, false? a false hope? >> no. i think it's imminently doable. i have always expected that in

this period the israelis and the palestinians would make an agreement, number one, because everybody knows it was a really bad move not to do it ten years ago. >> you had that moment. >> arafat just, like now, he didn't do it. they knew they made a mistake, i think. they're genuinely worried about what's going to happen if they pass up another security. then when we got seriously supportive, they were trying to modernize themselves and want an economic, political, and security partnership with israel for the first time really want it. >> but they're not showing it publicly. >> no, but they want it. they've offered this peace plan and a partnership and they're pushing for it, but they can't give it unless there's a peace with the palestinians and a palestinian state. i think you've got -- i think syria and lebanon both for

different reasons want to be totally reconciled with israel, so i think this whole thing is slightly more likely than not to happen. now, there's a lot of slips along the way, the enormous pressure to resume settlement building, but that's a really short-term deal. if they make a deal on the territory, how much of the west bank the palestinian state gets, what kind of land swap is there, then all the settlement difficulty will be, you know, resolved by the agreement. >> do you vu seen these reports of sellingsments in israel? if the israelis would continue their freeze on the west bank settlements, if the u.s. releading the convicted -- subject you dealt with at the wide river plantation, if you recall. >> no, i haven't, but they really want him out of there. the cia really doesn't want him to get out of there because the cia believes that he never

expressed any remorse. to establish a principal of differential treatment based upon who you spied for, and there's a big dispute. i'm not going to get into that. whatever the president and those people decide, the people, you know, in charge of the advising him side, you know, i'll support them on it. he would like to talk about why we're going to have this session here just very briefly. >> go ahead. >> i think it's important that our fellow americans nabbed this. >> the session on the middle east peace. >> and citizens around the world who watch cnn. let's assume -- and this is what we're going to do -- we make an agreement. >> who makes an agreement? the u.s. brokers a deal. >> the u.s. brokers an agreement made in good faith by the israelis and palestinians and are determined to keep it. and let's assume the israelis, you know, have to move somewhere

between 55,000 and 80,000 settlers out of the west bank, depending on what the territory line looks like, and they go about doing it. we know there will be enemies to peace. we know there will be people who will try to undermine the new palestinian state. in fact, the palestinians may be subject to more physical attacks than the israelis are as a result of this agreement. so the question we're dealing with a narrow question here. none of us, including me, wish to be on record inadvertently saying anything that makes the job of the palestinians, the israelis, the secretary of state harder. we don't want to do that. we're not negotiators. it doesn't count what we think about the settlements or anything else. what we are going to do -- say, let's assume they make an agreement, what can our members do to help it take hold? >> the -- >> what can we do to help move palestinians out of the camps? >> are you already thinking

post-agreement. >> yeah. >> most people don't even think there's going to be an agreement. >> but i do. i'll be surprise iffed they don't make it this time. they got -- for one simple reason. two reasons. one, i think abbas and prime minister fayad are more decisive and more clear-headed than yasser arafat was at that point in his life. he told me many times he was going take a deal. >> do you think netanyahu can deliver. >> it may cost him his coalition, but lieberman and his crew will have a decision to make, but 60% of the israelis trust hem on security. they'll stick with him, and i think the padima party will vote with him to ratify an agreement. that's why i think we can get one. be that as it may, if they get it, we got to make it work. how do we make it work for --

>> i'll ask him whether he gee grae with those who say his global initiative has become more powerful in some respects than the united nations general assembly. plus, what is he now doing to help fight poverty right here in the united states, and is it vice for president obama. i'll ask him what the president can do right now to turn the ailing economy around. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." felicia jackson promised her late sister that she would take care of her children. but she needed help.

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zarchlgts bill clinton is certainly a powerful influence around the world, on everything from politics to disaster release, to peacemaking. more on my interview with the former president at the annual clinton global initiative meeting in new york. >> this is the sixth cgi that you've hosted. did you see the piece in "the daily bee sting." it's become much more important than the annual united nations general assembly. >> i didn't see that. >> it's amaze whatting you have accomplished over these six

years. >> thank you. >> what are you proudest of? >> i think -- i'm more proud of the phenomenon than any specific thing. i'm proud that we proved there was a hunger over the world without regard to region, income, religion to go to a meeting where you actually talked about the real challenges, but then you had to do something about it so that i think it's amazing. now we have raised over $60 billion worth of commitments and already helped almost 300 million people in well over 170 countries because people were dying to be asked to do something, and to be given enough information and enough contacts and partners to actually do something effective. that's the thing i'm most proud of. there's now a global network of doers so that we're not just talking. we're doing. >> do you ever think about how many lives you may have saved?

>> uh-huh. all the time. you've got 75 million more people doing maternal and child health. you have 15 million more kids getting better education. you've got 10 million more poor people that got micro-credit. you got almost $2 billion in loans for small and medium size businessed that would not have been available in the poor countries without it. projects on the street and america and elsewhere that have really changed lives so,, yeah, i think about it all the time. i am very, very grateful. 20 million more people getting clean water. you know, water-borne illnesses kill millions of people a year, so, yes, i think about it. >> there was a u.n. study that came out about a decade ago that said several goals to be accomplished by 2015, which is only five years down the road, including cutting poverty and hunger rates by half. is that going to happen? >> i think some of it will be achieved. some will not. i think some countries will

surprise everybody by achieving them all. it will be uneven because the millennium development goals were always dependent on more than donors. there were always dependent, in part, on what happened within the country. the capacity and the commitment within developing countries to meet these goals, but i think they have been extremely useful and i think in 2015 to whatever extent we haven't met them, they should be modified, and we should keep them. i think it's a disciplined thing that keeps us focused on the big stuff. >> i was shocked the other day, and i think you probably were too, when the new poverty numbers in the united states came out. we're not talking about asia or africa or -- we're talking about the united states of america. 14% of the u.s. population now live in poverty. sdmroop i don't see how we can be surprised. you've got, what, 40% almost of

america eligible for food stamps. >> 40 million americans. >> 45 million americans, which is 15%, 16% of our population eligible for food stamps. there are actually more eligible. that many are drawing. >> right. >> no, it didn't surprise me because just look at the facts. in the eight years that i was president, we had 22.7 million jobs, and eight million moved from port up into the middle class. all those numbers went way down. then in the next eight years before the financial meltdown we only produced 2.5 million jobs, not enough to keep up with new entrants into the work force, and income started dropping and poverty went up, and this meltdown hit people like a ton of brickses. >> these numbers are the highest since 1994 when you were president. >> that's right. the highest than when i took

office and the middle of that last recession. now, it really doesn't surprise me. i mean, they could have even been worse because we've had -- we don't have enough employment, and we've had -- we followed policies that were absolutely designed to increase inequality. i mean, if you have no job and you have -- you double the debt of the country, an enormous percent of it goes to tax cuts for upper income people like you and me. how are the -- health care costs go up, and housing costs go up, and college costs go up. real incomes have to go down. poverty has to go up. we've got to -- we could turn it around again, but i'm not surprised. >> the former president certainly enjoying his newfound wealth after so many years of public service, but he remains focused on the plight of the poor, especially during these difficult economic times. we spoke about that during my

one-on-one interview. >> do you think we can help create jobs in the united sta s states -- >> and we are perfectly well aware that in a country like ours we can't lower the unemployment rate substantially or raise income substantially, but we can show the projects that if the private sector or the government are a partnership for the government gave tax credits, the private sector did it, would. i'll give you one -- we'll start with a small example. last year was a tough year. last summer for our young people because a lot of them couldn't get summer jobs who needed it for family income or to pay for college. so we have one commitment this year that promises to hire 200 young people for after school jobs and summer jobs to make

these buildings and have more energy efficient in harlem and washington heights. they might be putting in new lighting or new windows or just painting the tar roofs white instead of black. the point is they can lower the utility bills a lot, save a lot of energy, and provide jobs for oplepe now, this is a moldeh could easily be adopted in every other urban area in america, and it's not very expensive. it's the kind of thing that any state in the country can pick up. >> this is in the -- for the clinton global initiative, and you focused on creating jobs. not only in haiti or pakistan, but here in the united states. >> yes, and there will be a lot of others, as you go along. we talked earlier today about closing landfills. if america -- last year we had a commitment that we're going to highlight the progress on this year. a guy promised to close the landfill and create fuel, biogas, out of the organic matter in the landfill.

it created enormous number of jobs in america. if the mayors of the country went to support the federal government and the private developers say we're going to close every landfill in america and put people to work, recycling the materials and creating energy out of the landfills and giving the land back to developers or schools or whatever, playgrounds. >> could bill clinton's powerful global initiative become a model for replacing the united nations? mary snow is going behind the scenes. plus, could democrats be underestimating the power of the tea party movement? what bill clinton says, and i'm quoting him now, "we shouldn't be cute here." stand by with more of my interview. a lot more coming up. [ femal] it starts with you falling in love with the most personalized most customized piece of furniture you will ever own. ♪ get that one piece right and the rest of the room will just fall into place.

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nothings united nations general assembly this week the iranian president holding true to form and unleashing fiery

attacks at the united states. president mahmoud ahmadinejad said the united states was directly involved in the september 11th attacks prompting delegates from the u.s. and other western nations to walk out. u.s. officials are calling ahmadinejad's remarks abhorrent and delusional. here's a taste of what he said. >> some segments of the u.s. government orchestrated the attack to -- in order to save the zionist regime. the majority of the american people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view. third, it was carried out by a terrorist group, but that the american government supported and took advantage of the situation. apparently this viewpoint has

few opponents. president obama responded in an interview later in the week saying -- and i'm quoting now -- it was hateful and dwikly for him to make the statement here in manhattan just a little north of ground zero where families lost their loved ones, people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminole tragedy of this generation. for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable. each year it spends billions of dollars working to improve the lives of millions of people around the world, much like the united nations. well, what if the clinton global initiative founded by former president bill clinton is becoming more influential than the united nations? cnn's mary snow has more on the clinton global initiative. >> reporter: to get an idea what is done, meet gerald leaf. he is here to network with people like former nba star and philanthropist mikemba.

>> to bring folks together, people from different backgrounds together. >> reporter: former secretary of state madeleine albright, barbara streisand, global ceo eric schmidt, dozens of current or former heads of state along with leaders of business and nonprofit groups all brought together by former president bill clinton. >> reporter: this is the sixth year. the president touted $67 billion worth of commitments to dade date, helping improve the lives of 220 million people. >> reducing the burdens of illness and dirty water, increasing access to education. whatever it is, i hope you will have an idea of what is most needed in the places you care most about. >> everyone has a name tag on. you can literally walk up to anyone you want, and you can introduce yourself and just starting to tell them what you're doing. >> for leaf it's a chance to talk about the education fund he

runs in the port elizabeth townships in south africa where there is an 08% unemployment rate and a high number of aids cases. leaf tells us his program helps an estimated 24,000 children, but the goal of having them attend college, and he just opened a 7 million dollar community center. sdmru met people here who helped you. >> fund it. >> fund it. >> yeah. >> now as a result -- >> it's coming -- we opened it two days ago. >> along with seeking investments, the other major exchange? ideas. in this room, for example, the focus is on education. leaf's project is highlighted and educator jeffrey canada shares his story. in another room a session on empowering women which drew rosanna of brazil. sosa manufacturers and sells stainless steel sinks in brazil. because her family was so poor, she didn't get an education, but she was able to learn business skills through a program called 10,000 women. >> translator: it increased my profit 30%. >> souza tells us she now funds

scholarships for her workers. the goal, says dina of goldman sachs which runs the program, is so invest in 10,000 women globally. >> investing in women, especially by giving them opportunities to be more economically independent has an affect on all of society. >> cnn's mary snow reporting from new york. former president bill clinton tells democrats "don't play games" when it comes to dealing with the tea party movement. plus, his advice on what president obama can do right now to fix issue number one for american volunteers, the ailing u.s. economy. much more of my big interview ahead. [ tires screech ] [ engine revving ] [ drums playing ]

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the united states, the democrats vulnerability, and the momentum of the tea party movement. >> are the democrats underestimating the tea party movement? >> um, i don't know. i think it would be a mistake -- i think what we should say is those tea partiers, 20% of them, by the way, say they vote for democrats if there are no tea party candidates on the ballot. in their purist form, the tea partiers are saying i've been let down by big business and big government. i have been let down because the big banks were bailed out, but nobody helped me, and the deposit that bailed them out, they're doing fine. they all have a job, make their mortgage payments, have health care, send their kids to college. i want reform in both. the funders of the tea party movement tend to be pretty far right extremists who want their goal is to destroy the power of government to mediate the power of corporations. i don't really think that's a

sustainable position. my advice for the democrats is don't play games. make this about the american people. tell them what we need to do and what you would do about it, and ask if they really think you're more likely to do it than your opponent. i think we should just play it straight. if they got a tea party opponent who says something weird like the guy running for senator from alaska who says unemployment compensation is unconstitutional or a man running for senator from arkansas that says that we should have a 23% across the board sales tax instead of an income tax which would raise taxes for 8 5% or the governor running in colorado who says denver's bike pathsz is a plot to take the sovereignty of denver away from the united states. they might want to comment to, but we shouldn't be cute here. the american people are scared to death, and they're angry, and they want to know where we're going. my advice is answer the throw them out after 21 months, say no no, give us two years.

that will give us half as much time as you gave them, and if it's not better, throw us out. have you to give what you say out. throw us out if it's not better. and then say, now, let's talk about what we're going to do and who is more likely to do it? treat the american people with respect. tell them what you're going to do, ask them who is more likely to do it. if it's a choice, we can win. if it's a referendum, it's not good. >> new numbers show unemployment on the rise in dozens of states as the u.s. economy continues to suffer. i'll ask the former president what he thinks the white house needs to do to turn things around. also, the republican party unveils its so-called pledge to america with a list of promises. some voters, though, are already zeroing in on what's not on the list. is he a lean machine. former president clinton tells me about the diet that helped him shed 24 pounds. ♪ [ monkey screeches ] ♪ [ male announcer ] a bath becomes even more pleasurable

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first-time jobless claims ticked up in the unemployment report this week underscoring the limping economy and the threat it poses to democrats in the upcoming midterm election on november 2nd. former president bill clinton had some specific advice for president obama, as our interview continues. >> a few quick questions, a few quick answer on some domestic issues right now. what's the single most porchlt thing president obama can do to turn the economy around? >> i think the quickest thing he can do is to on recognize the stunning report that just came out last week -- the unemployment rate came out and said that the one to 9.6 because we had more census workers jobs buried in that unemployment rate was the stunning finding that for the first time since world

war ii we are coming out of recession where posted job openings -- that is, they'll hire us tomorrow, you or me -- posting job openings going up twice as fast as stop hires because a little bit of the here's the number of americans living in homes worthless and their mortgages, so they can't move, but mostly because of the skills mismatch, so i think the quickest thing you could do is to accelerate the transfer of discretionary training money to states or to the local labor department, direct to employers so that people while they're drawing unemployment can get trained and move into those jobs. that's what michael thurmond, the labor commissioner georgia is trying to do, train several thousand people on the job. >> you see some silver -- you see some light at the end of the tunnel. >> yeah. if we were just -- first of all, let's look at the facts here. according to this report, these

are the jobs that are posted all over america, i will hire you tomorrow, if we were filling those jobs, if we had been since last june filling those jobs at the same rate we were filling them in the early months of my presidency and the early months of coming out of every previous recession, there would be five million more americans at work, unemployment would be -- that's the quickest thing. then you have to create more jobs, and small business manufacturing, clean energy xshgs we have to find ways to get the banks to loan money because they have is.8 trillion dollars in cash uncommitted to loans, and to resolve whatever doubts the corporations have about investing the 1.6 trillion dollars they have in cash. >> it's easier said than done, but the president -- here's the question. has he lost his mucho? >> no, no, no. their argument -- the republican article every argument is we should throw him out baez he had 21 months to get us out of the

hole, and we're not out of the hole so, we should put them back in. our argument should be two-fold. and they have a larger argument, which is all this strategy, the stit stimulus, the student loan program, the financial oversight bill and the health care bill are part of some vast conspiracy to have government choke off our life, but our argument should be two-fold. we should say they dug this hole over eight years. we had big problems before the financial meltdown. they want you to throw us out over -- after 21 months and put them back in so they can do what they were doing before. they promise. they've been very honest. i give the republicans credit. they promise to repeal financial oversight and repeal the student loan reform, which is the best thing in my lifetime to get kids in school and in community colleges and help them stay there. they want to repeal health care and not improve it, which would be crazy because the system they advocate with the health

insurance companies running it, the health insurance of 26% insurance companies 26% increase in profits last year taking us over 70% of income for health care for the first time, spending $1 trillion more than all of our competitors, and every other rich company has the lower infant mortality rate and longer life expectancy. we need to fix it, not make it better. i think that the democrats' argument should be give us two more years. we got our ideas underway. if it's not better, can you vote against us all. >> in 201. >> they gave us -- you gave them eight years to dig the hole. just give us four to get out of it. he if it's not better, goed and throw us out. for goodness sakes, don't bring back the shovel brigade, and then i think they should pivot to saying what should we do now? we need more jobs, more finance willing, more training. here's what our position is. compare it with theirs. in other words, if this election is a choice about the future, we ahave i chance to do quite well. if it's just a referendum on

people's frustration, it's a bad deal for us. >> republican leaders throw down the gauntlet with their pledge to america to cut taxes and spending. will it push the gop over the top in the midterm elections? we'll hash it out with representatives from both sides. former president clinton slimz down dramatically as you can tell. he tells me a secret for taking off 24 pounds. felicia jackson promised her late sister that she would take care of her children. but she needed help. i used my american express open card to get half a million points to buy building materials to help build the jackson family a new home. well, i know if my dad was still around, he would have told me, with no doubt... he would have told me it's a no brainer and i knew that from the start. it was an honor. booming is moving forward by giving back.

less than six weeks ahead of the midterm elections, republicans are hoping to tap into voters frustration with an updated version of their successful 1994 contract with america. the new pledge contains 24 promises, including a descrees in spending, repeeling health care reform, and permanently extending the bush tax cuts, but there's no plan for controlling the cost of social security,

medicare, and medicaid and no mention of lawmakers' spending on pet projects. the ear mugs. will the pledge help propel the gop to an election victory in november? joining us, two members of congress, democrat debbie lahser mitchell of florida, republican paul ryan of wisconsin. thanks very much to both of you for coming in. let me start with you, congressman ryan. this pledge to america, you were obviously deeply involved in putting it all together, but lay the very sharp negative reaction from a prominent conservative eric erickson. he is a cnn contributor from red state.com. he says this. it is a series of compromises and milk toast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among house republicans because the house gop does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition of barack obama. go ahead and respond to eric erickson who says these are just words, but you don't deliver substance.

>> okay. so i guess i'll put him down as a critic. >> yes. >> first of all, wolfe, we think it's important that we don't make proms we know we can't keep in the next session. if we have the privilege in serving the majority, we'll have divided government so, we don't want to go out and there and promise pie in the sky things that we know won't be signed into law because we know barack obama will be the president. what we want to do is declare what our principles are and say we're not going to be like the republicans that got kicked out four years ago, big spending, earmarks, all of those things, and these are the things we could do right now to get this country right on the right track. cut spending, create jobs, clean out the way congress works. this is not meant to be an exhaustive redo of the party platform or a complete comprehensive agenda. this is meant to be a current governing agenda to fix the problems that are right in front of us, knowing that if we do get the republican majority, we will a divided deposit situation. >> what's wrong with that? >> what's wrong with it is they've made a pledge today to the special interests rather

than to america. i mean, what's particularly glowing, wolfe is the day the patients bill of rights reform actually could go into effect -- and as a breast cancer sur vooifr, i can tell you that's particularly disturbing to me that, for example, someone like me is one job loss away from being dropped or denied coverage because of my preexisting condition. yet, the republicans would repeal health care reform, make sure that insurance companies put back in the driver's seat. that's part of their pledge to america. their pledge to america also includes repeeling wall street reform, putting wall street back in the driver's seat, instead of focussing on balancing our policy between consumer protection and making sure that business can thrive. they also want to pledge to america that we hold middle class tax breaks hostage so we can give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires that add $700 billion to the deficit. >> you run through three points. let's go through those three points. let's talk about -- this is six months right now, congressman

ryan, and health care reform has been enacted. a lot of folks are happy that their college age family members that are going to be able to stay there, kids on the family plan, until age 26. you want to repeal that. why? >> the chief actuary of this administration has already told us that this bill is not meeting what they've already said it would do. bigger deficits, higher health care costs. the cbo is already telling us this is a massive deficit. it's not that we don't want to reform health care. health care needed reforming. we don't want this bill that reforms health care by having a government takeover of health care. what this bill will do is make health care less accessible, lower quality, more expensive, and give us a massive deficit when we have huge deficits. here's the problem, wolfe. the democrats here, they didn't even do a budget this year for the first time since 1974. we have to get the spending under control. we got to create jobs. raising taxes on the successful small businesses is nott going to create jobs. according to the cbo, it will cost us 1.2 million jobs. obviously we have a different

argument on these things, as you can see. >> let's talk about the tax cuts that the bush administration implemented. they'll expire at the end of this year unless legislation is passed in both the house and the senate. looks like the senate is punting until after the november 2nd midterms. the house -- is there going to be a vote on this talking about when that vote will take place. but what we want to make sure and the clear contrast between democrats and republicans here is they're pledged to special interest today came out with preserving tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals for millionaires and billionaires. holding middle class tax breaks hostage. and adding $700 billion to the deficit. they talk out of both sides on their face. on the one hand they talk about cutting spending but they ignore and treat the tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals adding $700 billion to the deficit like it's not spending. they're equivalent. >> let me ask the congressman to respond to that. because if the wealthiest, those making more than $250,000 a year, get to keep the same tax

rate as been in business now since the bush administration -- >> seven years. >> yeah, 35% as opposed to going up to the clinton administration's 39.6%, that will cost the american taxpayers $700 billion over the next ten years. you want to cut the debt, the national debt. there's $700 billion, congressman ryan, right to. >> well, not only do i disagree with what debbie just said, 41 democrats in our own caucus disagree with what debbie said. we have the votes to pass this if the speaker let this come up. you mention a good point should we just raise taxes on rich people? do you know who pay these taxes? these tax rates hit 50% of all small business income. 900,000 small businesses, 70% of our jobs come from these small businesses. the cbo just put on the a report saying, if this happens we could lose 1.2 million jobs. here's the point, to get our fiscal situation under control, we need to do two things, grow the economy, create jobs and cut spending. raising taxes defeats those purposes, those objectives. don't want to go down this

economy, cut spending. >> congresswoman, a lot of economists say they agree with congressman ryan, if you raise taxes on those making $250,000 a year or more at a delicate moment in the economy right now that could -- that could perhaps even trigger a double-dip recession. >> wolf, the overwhelming majority of economists agree that the tax cuts that mr. ryan and his colleagues want to extend for the wealthiest americans were -- do nothing to turn the economy around. that it's middle class tax breaks and the work families that we need to reenact because most wealthy americans don't use that windfall and put that money right back into the economy. they sit on it. they sit on it and society their investments and it doesn't help at all. all it would do is add to the deficit. and i certainly agree and democrats agree that we should be targeting our assistance when it comes to tax policy to small businesses. which is why the republicans should have voted with us today on the small business lending and jobs bill but unfortunately they all voted against it. they have no interest in getting

capital out, into the hands of small business owners aboutp they could have vote for that bill today and gottenen that credit to be available, but instead all that they're focused on is victory, returning to the tired old same tax policy of the past and the american people will reject it on november 2nd. >> are you just a congressman party, congressman ryan, no to what the democrats raise. even if issues these are what republicans supported in the past. >> look what the we put out today. a party of pro active ideas to get this country back on place to replace government-run health care. consumer-directed health care. to get this debt and deficit under control, to create jobs this, this count propose they actually make members of congress actually lead the administration before they vote on it. these are commonsense solutions that are anchored in our founding principles. back to this tax cut issue, even the president's advisers peter orszag, telling us you shouldn't be putting out this moment. we put out a list of 314

economists yesterday saying, do not raise tax thaets precarious time in our economy. it is very left of center to be suggesting we should have these tax increases. moderates, democrats, and republicans are saying we should not be raising these taxes. >> paul ryan, debbie wasserman schultz, a good debate earlier in the week. how many people in their 60s can say they weigh what they did in high school? former president bill clinton can say that now. he tells me how he lost 24 pounds by changing his diet. i didn't miss a premium payment for 10 years. the minute i got sick, i lost my insurance. not anymore. america's healthcare reforms change lives for the better. to find out how it can help you, visit us at americasfairhealthcare.org ♪ i was young and i was stupid ♪ i had just turned 17 ♪ a harmonica and a box guitar ♪

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