caller: my thoughts are that i am really impressed with the candidate running for president buddy romerho is the best qualified. i'm a registered democrat and i am so taken by his campaign strategy only accepting donations from small donors, nothing more than $100. i donated $50 to his campaign last week. i think his message is really important. i don't agree with him on everything but certainly on this issue that big money and too much money is really -- has recorded our politics. i think you can see that they don't let him on the debates because his concern is asking governor perry and mitt romney to their major contributors are. host: let's hear from bill, independent scholar in sacramento, california. doing thello, i'm military conversion. when the city had a city hall at the military base -- host: what do you mean by military conversion? caller: there are 60 military bases and there was a cutback of 5% in the budget. mr. delans was able to realize what was going on with the military and waste. by cutting back in the military and converting to disaster services which is what i do, i

i'd like to see ron paul and buddy romer get in there as a team. caller: i wanted to stick up for regulations. my uncle died of bess -- asbestos exposure. as early as the 20th century we knew asbestos could give you cancer. it took us until the 1980's and 1990's to regulate it because companies don't have to follow environmental standards. but the downside is that american people get cancer. cancer rates are 65% higher without regulations. in areas where they have natural gas, the rates of breast cancer are the highest in the country. i'm studying environmental law right now and in the early 20th century there was no regulations, the quality of the meat was so sub standard, people were getting sick. so they finally had to regulate the meat industry. "silent spring" was written about the affects these toxins have on mammals. host: ok. we'll have to leave it there. executive plans for growth. the piece says this "so far business leaders have been standing firm with executives using fewer firms for hiring. this according to meetings held by financial