so miss meeker also claims that america's enormous dent, deficit, it's more like a time bomb tickingnd ticking away and that could eventually derail our best and brightest innovations. do you agree with that? >> i do. i'll give you a simple analogy. apple started in a garage. okay? and what's happened though is we don't hear those stories anymore. the entrepreneurial spirit has been lost. i'll tell you, technology is actually still just in a bigger garage. it's just been opened. the door really hasn't been opened and allowed to go the 100 miles an hour. think about it in terms of what's held it back. what does it need to really grow? i'll be simple. it needs financing, it needs lending. it needs banks. where am i going with this? the banks can't. tarp set them back. overregulation really is setting them back. and that industry for us, 'cause it's not just manufacturing won't be a catalyst, it's technology. >> arthel: and miss meeker, to continue, she said in order to fix the debt problem, the u.s. would need to take radical steps. she's saying such as cutting medicare benefits by 53%

would it do to our economy that's a question president obama asked yesterday here's a good question meeker's a little homework assignment for folks. go a.s. the republicans what their jobs plan is if they're opposed to the american jobs act and have it scored have it assessed by the same and it kind of comments that it's a assess start or have those economists evaluate what over the next two years the republican just plan would do. well we got an answer that question this week from florida where republican state representative rich workman introduced house bill forty sixty three legislation to repeal the law that bans dwarf tossing in florida workman thinks it will help lower the sunshine state's crippling ten point seven percent unemployment rate as he said to me it's our kid kind of big brother wall that says we don't like that activity well there's nothing immoral or illegal about that activity all we really did by passing that law was take away some employment from some little people i knew this is the same republican florida florida republican party they refused to take federal high spe