. >> i want to introduce as well paul kirby, senior editor telecommunications report, who is running our conversation. we will turn it over to him in just a minute. but i want to read one sentence from your book, "the comeback." you write national business leaders agree that industry has been hurt by the well-meaning efforts of the federal government to help the economy. >> absolutely. i think verizon is head of the business with a seminal speech a few months ago when he said you know the challenges our government is not exactly helping business. when you use the phrase greed in conjunction with the word business, when you demonize business for the last two years because of a few bad apples it since it the wrong message and leadership. if you have policies we have had to unwinnable war, stimulus package, bailouts, medicare, cash for clunkers, we have only spent so much money and any business person knows that is totally unsustainable and the next generation is going to be paying interest on that debt so you have leadership that's demonizing business and you have spending which is cri

. >> host: i want to introduce as well paul kirby, senior editor of telecommunications reports, who is joining our conversation. we'll turn it over to him in just a minute, but i want to read one sentence from your book "the comeback." you write that industry has been hurt by the well-meaning efforts of the federal government to help the economy. >> guest: absolutely. i think ivan of verizon gave a very seminal speech a few months ago when he said with the challenges our government is not exactly helping business. when you, when you use the phrase greed in conjunction with the word business almost all the time and you demonize business as has happened for the past two years -- because of a few bad apples -- it sends the wrong message to the public, and can it's a matter of leadership. and if you have policies, look, we've had two unwinnable wars, stimulus packages, corporate bailouts, medicaid, medicare, social security, cash for clunkers, all we've done is spent. we have totally spent so much money, and any business person knows that is totally unsustainable, and the next generation i

. >> paul kirby is joining our conversation. we will turn it over to him. you say industry has been hurt by the well-meaning efforts of the federal government to help the economy. >> absolutely. verizon's head gave a similar. he said the government is not helping business. when you use the phrase greed in conjunction with business, it is because of a few bad apples and sends a wrong message to the public. we had two unwinnable wars, corporate bailout, cash for clunkers, medicaid and medicare. we have spent so much money and every business person knows that is totally unsustainable. all we are doing is paying interest on that debt. leadership is demonizing business. spending is crippling our future. we have a major problem ahead. business people are concerned about that. >> why is the president of the consumer electronics association taking on these issues? >> our board has decided that the only thing that matters to our future and our future health as an innovation the economy is the health of the united states economy in the next five or 10 years. there is

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paul kirby is the senior editor of "telecommunications reports," and this is gary shapiro's new book, "the comeback: how innow vegas -- innovation will restore the american dream." thank you for being on "the communicators," gentlemen. >> guest: thank you very much. >> "the communicators" also airs each monday evening. if you missed any of this discussion with consumer electronics association president gary shapiro, see "the communicators" again tonight in prime time at 8 p.m. eastern, 5 pacific. here on c-span2. >> next on c-span 3, the head of the small business administration, karen mills, talks about federal obstacles to small business lending. >> on television, on radio and online, c-span. bringing public affairs to you. created by cable, it's washington your way. >> now, karen mills, the head of the small business administration, talks about the federal government's recent actions and future plans to help small businesses. her comments came at a forum on the u.s. economy hosted by the federal deposit insurance corporation. she speaks for about 15 minutes. [applause] >> hello aga