unaffordable national debt and yet the president has put us on a course to make it radically worse in the years ahead. the federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. it borrows one of every three dollars it spends. no nation, no entity large or small, public or private, can thrive or survive intact with debts as huge as ours. the president's grand experiment in trickle down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. he seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle-class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. in fact, it works the other way, a government is big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle-class and those who hope to join it. those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight and those so disdiscouraged they've abandoned the search for work

all together and no one's been more tragically harmed than the young people of this country, the first generation in memory to face a future less promising than their parents did. as republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. we do not accept that ours will ever be a nation ofs have and have notes. we must always be a nation ofs f haves and soon to haves. in our economic stagnation and indebtness, we're only a short distance behind greece, spain, and other european countries now facing economic catastrophe, but ours is a fortunate land. because the world uses our dollar for trade, we have a short grace period to deal with our dangers. the time is running out if we're a-to-avoid the fate of europe and those once-great nations of history that fell from the position of world leadership. so 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to

restore an america of hope and upward mobility and greater equality. the challenges aren't matters of ideology or party preference, the problemses are simply mathematical and the answers are purely practical. an opposition that would earn its way back to leadership would offer not just criticism of failures failures that anyone can see but a positive and credible plan to make life better, particularly for those aspiring to make a better life for themselves. republicans accept this duty gratefully. the roots back to an america of promise and to a solvent america that can pay its bills and protect its vulnerable start in the same place. the only way up for those suffering tonight and the only way out of the dead end of debt into which we've driven is a private economy that begins to grow and create jobs-- real jobs-- at a much faster rate than today. contrary to the president's

constant disparagement of people in business, it's one of the noblest of human pursuits. the late steve jobs-- what a fitting name he had-- created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew. out here in indiana when a business person asks me what he can do for our state i say "first, make money. be successful. if you make a profit, you'll have something left to hire someone else and some to donate to the good causes we love." the extremism that stifle it is development of home-grown energy or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature is a pro-poverty policy. it must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate

the public revenues to pay our bills. that means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates. a pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise can could be used to e somebody. it means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy's gotten in years. there's a second item on our national must-do list. we must unite to save the safety net. medicare and social security have served us well, and that must continue. but after half and three quarters of a century respectively, it's not surprising they need some repairs. we can preserve them unchanged and untouched for those now in or near retirement, but we must fashion a new affordable safety net so future americans are protected, too. decades ago, for instance, we could afford to send

millionaires pension checks and pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us. now we can't. so the dollars we have should be devoted to those who need the most. the mortal enemies of social security and medicare are those who in contempt of the plain arithmetic continue to mislead americans that we should change nothing. listening to them much longer will mean that these proud programs implode and take the american economy with them. it will mean that coming generations are denied the jobs they need in their youth and the protection they deserve in their later years. it's absolutely so that everyone should contribute to our national recovery, including, of course, the most affluent among us. there are smart ways and dumb ways to do this. the dumb way is to raise rates in a broken grossly complex tax system choking off growth without bringing in the revenues we need to meet our debts. the better course is to stop

sending the wealthy benefits they do not need and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth. it's not fair and it's not true for the president to attack republicans in congress as obstacles on these questions. they and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform it into entitlements and encourage new job creation only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his democratic senate allies. this year it falls to republicans to level with our fellow citizens about this reality: if we fail to act to grow the private sector and save the safety net, nothing else will matter much. but to make such action happen, we also must work in ways we republicans have not always practiced to bring americans together. no feature of the obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide

us, to curry favor with some americans by castigating others. as in previous moments of national danger, we americans are all in the same boat. if we drift paralyzed over a niagra of debt we will all suffer regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. if we fail to shift to a pro-jobs pro-growth economic policy they there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net and national security or whatever size government we decide to have. as a loyal opposition who put patriotism and national success ahead of party or ideology or any self-interest, we say that anyone who will join us in the cause of growth and solvency is our ally and our friend. we will speak the language of unity. let us rebuild our finances and the safety net and reopen the door to the stairway upward.

any other disagreements we may have can wait. you know, the most troubling contention in our national life these days isn't about economics or policy at all, it's about us as a free people. in two alarming ways that contention is that we americans just can't cut it anymore. in word and deed, the president and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves in this complex perilous world without their benevolent protection. left to ourselves we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids. unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong lightbulb. a second view-- which i admit some republicans also seem to hold-- is that we americans are no longer up to the job of self-government. we can't do the simple math that proves the unaffordability of today's safety net programs are all the government we now have. we'll fall for the con job that

says we can just plow ahead and someone else will pick up the tab. we'll allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbor for troubles worldwide trends or our own government has caused. 2012 must be the year we proved the doubters wrong. the year we strike out boldly not meerly to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that america's still the world's premier land of opportunity. republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen, who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them, who trust americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in and delay before them a specific credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing. we will advance our positive suggestions with confidence because we know that americans are still a peel born to

liberty. there's nothing wrong with the state of our union that the american people address this free born mature citizens cannot set right. republicans in 2012 welcome all our countrymen to a program of renewal that rebuilds the dream for all and makes our city on a hill shine once again. thanks for listening, good night. >> pelley: speaking for republicans, governor mitch daniels of indiana. president obama will be following up his state of the union address with a campaign tour starting tomorrow. it will take him to five battleground states in the upcoming election: iowa, arizona, nevada, colorado, and michigan. there will be more about all of this tonight on your late local news on this cbs station and on a special web cast coming up right after this on cbsnews.com. then first thing tomorrow on "this morning" charlie rose will have an interview with jpt joe

biden. with thanks to the jones day law firm for this window on washington i'm scott pelley with bob schieffer. i'll see you tomorrow on the "cbs evening news." sweetheart. we need to talk.

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your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. good evening. this is a special edition of eyewitness news. declaring the american dream under siege, tonight president obama called for help for a hurting middle class. standing before a divided congress and facing a tough re- election battle, the president delivered a state of the union address focused on job creation

and what he calls economic fairness. to that end, he pushed for comprehensive tax reform that would ensure millionaires pay higher tax rates than middle class families. >> we cannot settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of americans barely get by, when we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules. [ applause ] >> the president also discussed his defense strategy and called for improved clean energy and education policies. but many republicans were not cheering. indiana governor mitch daniels delivered the official gop response. >> on these evenings, presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of national conditions but when president obama says that the state of

our union is anything but grave he must know in his heart that this is not true. >> he said while the president is not to blame for america's current economic crisis, he has failed in his promise to fix it. the guest in the first lady section at tonight's address included steve jobs' widow, loreen powell jobs. there was no mention of her husband in the biography that the white house released. instead, it focused mainly on her charity work but apple also made headlines today trouncing quarterly earning estimates $46.3 billion in the 1st quarter. joining me now, cbs 5 political analyst joe tuman. joe, you described this not so much a state of the union address as it was a state of obama. >> yeah. >> he used the terms we're back. it's election year. you kind of expect that, don't you? >> you do. actually what you saw tonight was a great deal of the president throwing a lot of spaghetti against the wall to see what stuck. he put out a lot of proposals

that in 2012 have zero chance of the congress enacting. there is no cost to the president. if they don't vote for it, don't blame me; hold them accountable in the fall. he used a motif early on in the speech for those listening at home, you want to see it online, about 7 minutes into the speech he talked about how manufacturing jobs actually came back to this country as an example of how the economy is rebounding. he said detroit is back and picked the auto industry don't forget because that's the place where the government bailed them out. later he said, not only is that back but america is back and anybody who tells you differently doesn't know. he is trying to say that the country much better off after three years than it was with his predecessor. >> he talked about taxes, class warfare. election year, the rich not paying enough, a jab at romney? >> well, unquestionably. and, of course, the speech was written before romney decided to release his taxes but given the fact that romney paid whatever it was, 13 or 14% on income of $21 million,

everybody else makes considerably less pays a higher rate it makes the case. i have to tell you that is a jab at romney. but the president doesn't want to run against romney. he is hoping to hurt romney in the primaries by making gingrich look better by comparison because the president would like to run against newt gingrich. >> joe gingrich. >> joe thank you. san francisco's sheriff won't step down while he fights domestic abuse charges. our cameras located ross mirkarimi this afternoon after met with mayor ed lee. the mayor's office tells cbs 5 that lee wanted to talk to the sheriff about stepping aside. mirkarimi insists that the meeting was cordial. >> well, i actually wanted to talk with the mayor. we talked together. it is about the idea that while i'm here the perception is this could be somewhat of a distraction, that stay very focused on the job. >> mirkarimi also says that he

plans to fight new accusations from ex-girlfriend that he abused her as well and he said won't take pay on the days that his trial prevents him from coming to work. mirkarimi has pleaded not guilty to charges that he abused his wife on new year's eve. also new tonight state democratic leaders are suing the controller over pay that was withheld last year. democratic leaders don't like the fact that john chiang docked their paychecks last summer after they presented an unbalanced budget. it was a penalty voters approved in 2010. but democrats dispute the controller's authority to take away their paychecks. so who is paying for the lawsuit? the short answer is you. >> we don't expect it to cost very much because we think that this is a very simple case that we hope the court will be able to deal with rather quickly. >> democrats don't want back pay. they want leverage. the ability to block program cuts without harming their own

paychecks if they're late on budget. i think walmart is taking over the world. >> walmart made a threat to cities they couldn't afford to ignore and it worked. the new kind of stores opening in the bay area. ♪

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offer those cities couldn't afford to ignore. reporter: this nob hill supermarket in pleasanton closed in early 2010 but some shoppers aren't convinced a walmart neighborhood mark is a fitting replacement. >> i think walmart is take over the world, to be honest. their food, their produce is gross. >> i don't know. i don't know if i would shop there if there's walmart groceries. >> reporter: don't you think the prices would be good? >> yeah, probably. but i don't know about quality. >> reporter: walmart has been on an expansion push in california. last year, the company collected signatures in milpitas and used the threat of an expensive special election to get city council approval for plans to expand an existing store. walmart has never operated a grocery-only store in california. in both pleasanton and the site of this now closed circuit city store in hayward, walmart wants to sell groceries, prescriptions and other

household items. this shopper think it is will be good for consumers. >> i do a lot of shopping at walmart so i would be looking forwardwalmart opening a store because it is pretty much low for me and keeps me saving money. >> reporter: but this other shopper wonders what it means for competitors. >> walmart being so big and being such a big chain, i assume it would hurt everybody else. i'm sure they can offer better prices than everybody else. >> reporter: back this pleasanton, susan park says her business could use the boost. >> we do need anchor tenants on my shopping mall here. so it would be very good for all of us. >> reporter: in a written statement, walmart says it hopes its stores in pleasanton and here in hayward quoting now, can be part of the solution for residents who need jobs or want more convenient access to food and other products. reporting in hayward, i'm mark sayre, cbs 5. ,,,,

well, turned out to be a decent day around the bay area. no rain, dense fog this morning and we'll see more dense fog tonight. high pressure building in and i'll tell you what these next couple of days almost spring- like around the bay area. you get the idea the ridge is building in all the clouds moving clockwise right over the top of the ridge so still for tomorrow we'll still see a few high clouds but not as many as today. and we are going to start out with some patchy dense fog in the early-morning hours. outside now temperatures beginning to cool off. some clouds still moving in overhead. those numbers running into the 50s for the most part to 56 degrees in concord, 52 san jose, and 53 degrees in santa rosa. high pressure still holding ongoingto strengthening over the next couple of days. 60s by the afternoon even upper 60s in the warmest spots inland. looks like nice days ahead. you like the dry weather? it is back. looks like it's going to stick around with mild temperatures above average for this time of the year. cooling off a bit on friday, warming back up, more sunshine

on saturday with offshore winds. no rain in sight for the next five to seven days. that's a look at weather. let's check sports with dennis. well, there's a lot going on a lot of moving and shaking going on. contracts are getting to the point where, listen, i know it's a free market but prices are just going up, you know? >> you have to pay. >> big news is raiders by the way. great news. raiders defense ranked among the worst in the nfl since 2002. tonight, new general manager reggie mckenzie decided to do something about it. the raiders have hired dennis allen as their new head coach. allen spent the last season as defense i coordinator for the denver broncos where their defense was a big reason why the broncos won the afc west. 39-year-old allen has never been a head coach on any level but has been an assistant in the nfl since 2002. the raiders haven't had a defensive coach since 1969, dana, when -- >> when al davis hired john madden. >> one heck of a history bank

you have. tim lincecum has 40.5 million reasons to smile tonight. the giants and he reached an agreement on a contract this afternoon. two time cy young award winner gets a two-year deal worth a reported $40.5 million. the deal buys out the rest of his arbitration eligibility meaning he will be a free agent and can sign with anybody after the 2014 season. lincecum was 13-14 last year despite having an excellent 2.74 e.r.a. the big splash of the day belongs to that man! prince fielder surprisingly signing with... the detroit tigers! nine-year deal, are you ready for this? >> how much? >> $214 million. >> that's it? >> the fourth richest deal ever. albert pujols signed 2 years $10 million with the angels last month. prince returns to the team he grew up with. that's him when he was little and his dad cecil played for the tigers from 1990 to 1996.

$240million. >> he lost some weight from when he was a little kid. >> not much. that's the thing. you commit nine years to a guy is overweight like that. >> wow. >> better hit a lot of home runs. >> better put him on a diet. >> we're coming back at 10:00 and 11:00. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com [ sighs, groans ] ow, ow, ow. [ engine starts ] - ♪ [ guitar: pop ] - [ beeps ] [ computerized female voice ] congratulations, amy! you did it! love, mom. ♪ [ continues ] ♪ [ whistling ] the leap list. get going on yours... in the completely redesigned cr-v. all new, from honda.

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