Rick Santorum Nov. 18 Part Two

Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), a candidate for the Republican nomination for President, appeared at an event in Washington, Iowa, on November 18, 2011. In this second segment of his appearance at an Italian restaurant, Santorum continues to discuss his recently-released economic plan.

"We are going to level the playing field so I have some bold plans out here. I took the corporate tax on manufacturers and eliminate it, so we're not going to tax manufactures. If you make things in America, you pay no corporate taxes. Number two, we took the regulations off manufacturers."

Santorum also vowed to cut energy costs for small businesses and pledged to repeal the regulations currently in place so that "we are not micromanaging both businesses - and farms, I might add - from Washington D.C."

"We have to have affordable electric rates, which means we have to have an energy policy that will produce affordable energy. The present administration is doing everything they can to drive energy costs up."

"They [the Obama administration] are restricting the mining of coal...they don't like nuclear, well they don't like any kind. They like Solyndra, they like solar power, which is not going to do anything to improve the power grid. We have to burn fossil fuels, or produce nuclear power."

Santorum proceeds to speak about the reduced price of natural gas which he attributes largely to the discovery and drilling of a large natural gas reserve in Pennsylvania (the "Marcellus Shale"). A company for which Santorum works, Consol Energy, has substantial involvement in hydraulic fracking for natural gas in Pennslyvania. According to the company's website, it is "the leading eastern U.S. gas producer and our future growth is centered in the Marcellus Shale."

Fracking has been a controversial topic among energy and environmental policy makes recently. According to a mandatory financial disclosure for presidential candidates, Santorum is paid more than $330,000 for his work on behalf of Consol Energy and other consulting agencies.

Later, Santorum addresses the topic of American productivity, highlighting and criticizing a recent statement by President Obama:

"The idea that the president says we are lazy is insulting...It reminded me as soon as I heard that this is Jimmy Carter talking about malaise. It's now Barack Obama saying we are lazy. Americans are not lazy. Americans are the hardest working people in the world by any objective measure...but what we have is a president who is doing everything he can to crush the people who work hard in America and make them pay and punish them to redistribute wealth to the folks who are not working that hard."

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The best way to completelyd estroy the US economy and start World War III would be to elect this repugnant creature to the Oval Office this year.