john: once again, foster friess.en we come back, rick santorum's speech. ♪ john: rick santorum's announcement speech is underway. rick santorum: we lust over 100,000 jobs in what seemed to be overnight. that has to and did leave a mark on all of us. afterwards, big government and big business told our workers that times had changed. american workers could no longer compete with low foreign wages and that those jobs were gone forever. well, what about those politicians? for all of those years, what did they do? what did they do for communities across this area and across this country in small-town america? they had no plan, and they provided no hope, and to that, i say no longer. [applause] rick santorum: as middle america is hollowing out, we cannot sit idly by as they, government politicians make it harder for our workers and then turn around and blame them for losing jobs overseas. working families do not need another president tied to big government or big money, and today is the day -- today is the day we are goi