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Well, let's talk about what we need to compete.
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And the way you define small businesses includes folks at the very top.
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And they include you and me.
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That's not the kind of small business promotion we need.
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But let's take an example that we know is going to make a difference in the 21st century and that's our education policy.
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And what I now want to do is to hire more teachers, especially in math and science, because we know that we've fallen behind when it comes to math and science.
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Now, Governor Romney, when you were asked by teachers whether or not this would help the economy grow, you said this isn't going to help the economy grow.
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27,283
When you were asked about reduced class sizes, you said class sizes don't make a difference.
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But I tell you, if you talk to teachers, they will tell you it does make a difference.
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That is not good for America's position in the world, and the world notices.
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27,292
Well -- well, I need to speak a moment...
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... if you'll let me, Bob, just about education...
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We have every two years tests that look at how well our kids are doing.
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27,299
While I was governor, I was proud that our fourth graders came out number one of all 50 states in English, and then also in math.
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And that was -- that was -- that was what allowed us to become the number one state in the nation.
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27,306
But that was 10 years before you took office.
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27,308
And then you cut education spending when you came into office.
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The first -- the first -- the first -- and we kept our schools number one in the nation.
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And the principles that we put in place, we also gave kids not just a graduation exam that determined whether they were up to the skills needed to -- to be able compete, but also if they graduated the quarter of their class, they got a four-year tuition- free ride at any Massachusetts public institution of higher learn...
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27,313
That happened before you came into office.
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27,316
You got that fact wrong.
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27,329
The good news is (inaudible).
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27,330
I'd be happy to have you take a look.
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27,332
You look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years.
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We do it by getting -- by reducing spending in a whole series of programs.
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27,336
And that one doesn't sound good and it's not affordable.
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So I'd get rid of that one from day one.
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Number two, we take some programs that we are doing to keep, like Medicaid, which is a program for the poor; we'll take that healthcare program for the poor and we give it to the states to run because states run these programs more efficiently.
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As a governor, I thought please, give me this program.
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I want to do those two things and get this -- get this to a balanced budget with eight -- eight to 10 years.
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But the military -- let's get back to the military, though.
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27,349
He should have answered the first question.
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27,350
Look, Governor Romney's called for $5 trillion of tax cuts that he says he's going to pay for by closing deductions.
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He then wants to spend another $2 trillion on military spending that our military is not asking for.
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But, what you can't do is spend $2 trillion in additional military spending that the military is not asking for, $5 trillion on tax cuts.
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27,359
You say that you're going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions, without naming what those loopholes and deductions are.
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27,361
The math simply doesn't work.
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27,363
We need to be thinking about cyber security.
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It's driven by, what are we going to need to keep the American people safe?
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That's exactly what our budget does, and it also then allows us to reduce our deficit, which is a significant national security concern.
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I went into the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance, and made a success there.
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I had the chance to be governor of a state.
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Four years in a row, Democrats and Republicans came together to balance the budget.
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I expect to have the opportunity to do so myself.
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We're headed down to the low 200s if we go through a sequestration.
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I want to make sure that we have the ships that are required by our Navy.
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We've changed for the first time since FDR -- since FDR we had the -- we've always had the strategy of saying we could fight in two conflicts at once.
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Look, this, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.
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And I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts the president has, as well as the sequestration cuts.
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That, in my view, is making -- is making our future less certain and less secure.
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First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed.
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Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed.
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We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them.
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We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
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And, you know, we visited the website quite a bit and it still doesn't work.
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It is our greatest ally in the region.
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And if Israel is attacked, America will stand with Israel.
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I've made that clear throughout my presidency.
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I will stand with Israel if they are attacked.
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And this is the reason why, working with Israel, we have created the strongest military and intelligence cooperation between our two countries in history.
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In fact, this week we'll be carrying out the largest military exercise with Israel in history, this very week.
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But to the issue of Iran, as long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.
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We then organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling their economy.
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Their currency has dropped 80 percent.
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Their oil production has plunged to the lowest level since they were fighting a war with Iraq 20 years ago.
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So their economy is in a shambles.
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And the reason we did this is because a nuclear Iran is a threat to our national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security.
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Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
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And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.
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And they have said that they want to see Israel wiped off the map.
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And crippling sanctions are something I called for five years ago, when I was in Israel, speaking at the Herzliya Conference.
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I laid out seven steps, crippling sanctions were number one.
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It's absolutely the right thing to do, to have crippling sanctions.
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27,456
I would have put them in place earlier.
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But it's good that we have them.
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Number two, something I would add today is I would tighten those sanctions.
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I would say that ships that carry Iranian oil, can't come into our ports.
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would agree with us as well.
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Not only ships couldn't, but I'd say companies that are moving their oil can't, people who are trading in their oil can't.
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Secondly, I'd take on diplomatic isolation efforts.
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I'd make sure that Ahmadinejad is indicted under the Genocide Convention.
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His words amount to genocide incitation.
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The same way we treated the apartheid diplomats of South Africa.
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And of course, a military action is the last resort.
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Well, first of all those are reports in the newspaper.
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And I'm glad that Governor Romney agrees with the steps that we're taking.
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You know, there have been times, Governor, frankly, during the course of this campaign, where it sounded like you thought that you'd do the same things we did, but you'd say them louder and somehow that -- that would make a difference.
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We started from the day we got into office.
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Because if it's just us that are imposing sanctions -- we've had sanctions in place a long time.
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In the meantime, though, we're not going to let up the pressure until we have clear evidence that that takes place.
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We're not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere.
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You know, because of the intelligence coordination that we do with a range of countries, including Israel, we have a sense of when they would get breakout capacity, which means that we would not be able to intervene in time to stop their nuclear program.
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And that clock is ticking.
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And I say that because from the very beginning, the president in his campaign four years ago, said he would meet with all the world's worst actors in his first year, he'd sit down with Chavez and Kim Jong-il, with Castro and President Ahmadinejad of Iran.
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And I think they looked and thought, well, that's an unusual honor to receive from the President of the United States.
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I think they looked at that and saw weakness.
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Then when there were dissidents in the streets of Tehran, a Green Revolution, holding signs saying, is America with us, the president was silent.
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And I think that when the president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel, that they noticed that as well.
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All of these things suggested, I think, to the Iranian mullahs that, hey, you know, we can keep on pushing along here, we can keep talks going on, we're just going to keep on spinning centrifuges.
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Now there are some 10,000 centrifuges spinning uranium, preparing to create a nuclear threat to the United States and to the world.
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