i'm david asman. welcome to "forbes on fox." let's go in focus with publisher rich karlgaard, victoria barret, stephane fitch, elizabeth macdonald. >> the problem that cuba has is the problem that u.s. has. the government is smothering the private sector. some government says the federal government isn't the problem. there is only 2 million government employees. if you look at it, 153,000 new civilian employees in the last year at a time when unemployment in the private sector is going up. $1.2 trillion deficit for the first 11 months of the year. somewhere, somehow we have to cut government or we'll strangle ourselves. >> david: i should make a point. cubans are offering the government workers another government job if they leave the one they're in now. but doesn't neil make sense? >> he does. he has got some things right. let's stop and think about this for a second. we have only 2 million federal employees. that's if you subtract out the third that are citizen soldier, department of defense, you are left with one in 230 ameri

host david asman, after he brushed off minority leader boehner's asorgs. he has a proposal for the congressman. a right wing agenda called the scoreboard contract surprisingly substituting newt gingrich's contract on america. >> you have a clear choice. one ideology or another. >> we have a choice of two futures. let's get on with making that choice. >> scoreboard has our own list, our own contract if you will. the scoreboard contract is no new taxes, no new bureaucrats. cut spending. repeal obama care. would you be in favor of those? >> absolutely. not only would i be in favor of these things, we will be in favor of those things. >> you tell them, asman. meanwhile, fox prime time viewers will be treated to enlightenment. running an ad newscorp gave to the governors association. the donation received one mention on the self-declared news network. the ad had to be tweaked multiple times before fox deemed it repeatable. between the ad for goldline and the other ad for goldline. joining me now as promised is vice chair representing the florida 20th, congressw

. ♪ ♪ >>> david asman snatch iing an exclusive this week with paul volcker and david getting him to tell thinks the president is anti-business. listen to this. >> we just had a poll issued today that three-fourths of all u.s. investors view president obama as anti-business and think we have a biased against business from the government. how do you change that perception? >> i don't know. i think the perception is wrong. i do not understand what everyone thinks of president obama. he is not a wild-eyed leftist radical. it's ridiculous. he is a man in the middle and he has done things that i believe and he believes are in the interest of business. there has been excesses in the financial world. he will criticize and point that out. it's accurate. >> do you buy what volcker says about president obama being pro-business? >> reminds you of bill clinton, what is the definition of "is"? do bears hibernate? is green gecko green? of course he's anti-business. he says it every time he opens his mouth. he still took a bash at the greed of business. the poster boy is the 1099 provision of the poster

working as a public-service trainee, i was able to brush up on my asman skills, attend staff trainings, and become a part of the team within the human services agency. it is good to bring home a paycheck i finally turned. all along, we understood this was a federally funded program that would last until september, 2010, unless it was extended. my supervisor at that time, john murray, encouraged us to look for permanent employment, requiring us to apply to least five jobs per week. in december, 2009, received an alert for a job opening with the city and county as a 2903 eligibility worker. [cheers and applause] i applied and because of my experience in the human services agency as a trainee, i was notified that i met the minimum experience and qualification requirements. [applause] my family and i were ecstatic. i actually had a chance of becoming a permanent employee somewhere. later, i took the civil test and was notified that i had not only passed the test, but i ranked number nine. [cheers and applause] in june, i interviewed for the eligibility worker position. as of july 12, i am

host david asman serving as a yes man to the talking points after he brushed off boehner's assertions that americans are willing to have tax cuts for the wealthy. he had a proposal. a right wing agenda called the scoreboard contract. surprisingly from the 1994 contract on america. >> you got a very clear choice. one ideology or the other. limited government or more government. >> that's right, we have two futures for this country. let's make a choice. >> the scoreboard contract is no new taxes, no new bureaucrats, cut spending, repeal obamacare. would you be in favor of those? >> absolutely. not only would i be in favor of these things, i will be in favor of these things. >>> fox prime time viewers, they finally agreed to run a media matters ad. detailing the million-dollar donation they gave to the governor's association. the donation received one mention on the self-declared news network. the ad had to be tweaked multiple times before fox deemed it suitable. joining me now as promised, the vice chair of the democratic national committee, congressman debbie wasserman-schultz. thanks