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BRET BAIER: Hey John, good morning. We are joined by Governor Romney here in Sioux City ahead of an event here in Iowa. Governor, thanks for being here.
BAIER: I want to talk to you about the democratic convention and just the messaging coming out of there in just a second. But today the news about the jobs numbers. 8.1 percent unemployment, going down basically because people got out of the job market and 96,000 jobs created. Your thoughts?
ROMNEY: Well, obviously another disappointing monthly figure. And I know the White House keeps saying that you can&apos;t look at just monthly numbers but if you look over the last several quarters, the last several years, you see the continued pattern which is that we are not creating the jobs we need to create to put Americans back to work. For every net new job created, about four people dropped out of the workforce. So we&apos;re going in the wrong direction. This is a very difficult time for the American people. By the way, wages are also not rising. So no increase in wages - declining wages, actually. Declining number of people able to find work. People dropping out of the workforce. It&apos;s another continuation of very bleak news on the employment front.
BAIER: Do you think that this jobs report will spur the federal reserve into action and do you think if they do that, that might affect the election?
ROMNEY: I think it&apos;s hard to predict exactly that the federal reserve will do. I don&apos;t think that there&apos;s any action that they&apos;re going to take that will have an immediate impact on the economy and frankly I think they have shot a lot of their monetary bullets and those bullets are not able to strike at a target that makes a real difference for the American worker today. What we really need is to have policies coming from Washington that are fiscally sound and that get America back on track to having the kind of financial stability and foundation of economic growth that puts people to work.
BAIER: I&apos;ve been told that you did not watch the President&apos;s speech last night and that you read it. Your thoughts about that speech and the overall messaging coming out of Charlotte?
ROMNEY: Well, I was disappointed with the speech. Of course, it has been a disappointing four years. There was nothing in the speech that gives confidence that the President knows what he is doing when it comes to jobs and the economy. As a matter of fact, he hardly even mentioned jobs or the economy. And for that matter, there is nothing that he has really done in the last three and a half, four years that gives confidence he knows what he is doing with regards to jobs and the economy anyway. Uh, this has been a very disappointing time for the American people. He in his speech laid out a few new promises, uh, but the old promises he gave he did not report on and the reason he didn&apos;t do that is because he was unable to fulfill the old promises. At the last convention he said he&apos;d cause incomes to rise. They have gone down. He&apos;d create more jobs. We don&apos;t have new jobs in America. We&apos;d see new businesses start up. As a matter of fact we are at a 30 year low in business start ups. He was going to cut the deficit in half. It has doubled. Almost every indication of what he would do last time he was running, he has not been able to fulfill and what we saw and what we read with regards to last night&apos;s speech was a President making new promises which he will also be unable to fulfill and no new plan. No new ideas, no new here&apos;s how we&apos;re going to get the economy going, here are the specifics of what it takes - nothing there.
BAIER: Well you know democrats charge that you did not provide specifics down in Tampa. Now you&apos;re saying the President didn&apos;t provide specifics.
ROMNEY: Well I laid out the five steps I would take to get the economy going. And I have spoken about them throughout my campaign - (BRET: Right.) about the five key steps that will get America&apos;s economy creating the jobs and rising take-home pay the American people want. And I can elaborate in great depth on those five -
ROMNEY: You don&apos;t want to hear? But so I&apos;m very specific as to what I&apos;ll do to get the economy going. What the President said last night has virtually no new steps, no indication of what he is going to do other than he really wants things to get better and he hopes to create jobs but not how he is going to do it.
BAIER: I&apos;d like to address a few specific things said down in Charlotte about you. One of them - President Clinton said that no president could turn the economy around, the economy President Obama inherited in four years. Could you have?
ROMNEY: Well I could have done a heck of a lot better job than this President has and you know, I wasn&apos;t elected so that&apos;s kind of moot. But the point is when this President was elected, he and his team announced to the American people that by now, we&apos;d have 5.4 percent unemployment. Now, had he delivered on that promise - that was his promise, I didn&apos;t demand he put it out there, he put it out for the American people. Had he delivered on that promise, there would be 9 million more jobs in America today than there are. That was his promise. So... I&apos;m only holding him accountable by the measure he himself put out to the American people.
BAIER: The auto bailout came up as a topic arguably more than any other down in Charlotte. Democrats think they have a powerful attack against you. We have heard your explanation about structured bankruptcy and to be honest, you know, it doesn&apos;t really fit on a bumper sticker. But what do you do to attract those voters in Ohio and Michigan and other states tied to the car industry that may have been sway by the democrats messaging on this issue?
ROMNEY: Well, there&apos;s a nice chance in debates to talk about truth and fiction. Um, I don&apos;t think many people understand that the President took the car companies into bankruptcy. They went into bankruptcy exactly as I proposed so the difference between us is that I would have done it earlier than the President did and saved the American taxpayers about 20 billion dollars. That&apos;s a message which will come out in the debates and perhaps in ads (laughs). I don&apos;t write my own ads but the message will be communicated to the American people and I think they recognize that when it comes to saving an industry and making more jobs for the American people, I&apos;ve got a record that shows I know how to do that. And the President who has been in office for four years had simply been unable to deliver what he promised.
BAIER: A few more things, Governor. To hear several speakers in Charlotte - and I don&apos;t think this is jump (?) - they were essentially saying you don&apos;t care about the U.S. military because you didn&apos;t mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech. We understand you went to the American Legion the day before and you talked about the service and sacrifice of the military there. Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?
ROMNEY: Because when you give a speech, you don&apos;t give a laundry list. You talk about the things that uh you think are important. And I described in my speech my commitment to a strong military unlike the President&apos;s decision to cut our military. And I didn&apos;t use the word troops, I used the world military. I think they refer to the same thing. And of course going to the American Legion the day before during the middle of our convention made a much bigger statement to our military and our troops than the President who did not go meet with the American Legion. I also spoke to the VFW the week before, so I think our American military understands that I am fully supportive of their effort. And unlike the President who we understand from Bob Woodward&apos;s book, at least from the excerpts, the President was and the White House part of the author of this sequestration idea that would slash our military. I oppose that idea, think it is absolutely wrong to cut our military as the President is doing.
BAIER: Governor, last thing. What is your sense of this race right now? I mean, we are 60 days out. We are traveling the country, you are here in Iowa today. What&apos;s your sense of where things are and how important those debates will be?
ROMNEY: Well I think people will make up their mind as we go along here. I can&apos;t tell you when everyone will have settled down. A lot of people won&apos;t make up their mind until the day before the election (LAUGHS) or the day of the election. But it&apos;s a horse race. We&apos;ve got two candidates that would take our nation in different directions. My direction is one that encourages the private sector again to create jobs. And the history of America has been a powerful and robust economy with great jobs and rising wages based on a strong private sector. The President&apos;s plan is to build a bigger government. I don&apos;t know any nation on earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government. So we&apos;ve got different paths ahead of us and I think, um, people can look at the success of the President&apos;s path by looking at his record over the last four years. If they like the direction they have seen, if they think we are heading in the right direction, why, he may be their guy. But I think if they take a look at the last four years, they will conclude we are not better off than we were four years ago and that means that they will support me.
Of the 400 richest Americans, 39 are immigrants who came to the United States from 23 nations and fulfilled the American Dream, and only one of them is Latino, according to "The Forbes 400: The Richest People in America" released earlier this week.
Born in Argentina to Cuban parents, Jorge Pérez, 64, is worth $1.55 billion and was called the "Condo King of South Florida" by the Wall Street Journal. Pérez moved to Cuba when he was just 9, so his family could collect his grandfather&apos;s inheritance, and moved to Miami after finishing high school in 1968, according to WSJ.
According to Forbes, Pérez started out as an urban planner, specializing in low-income housing developments, and co-founded the Related Group of Florida in 1979. In the 1980s, Pérez moved from building affordable housing to high-end condo construction.
The Related Group is considered the largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States, with a development portfolio of projects worth in excess of $10 billion. His Related Group company, which made roughly $960 million in 2012, is currently ranked as the #3 business in the Hispanic Business 500 list. In August 2005, TIME Magazine named Pérez, one of the top 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Pérez is the CEO of the premier real estate firm in Florida, which inevitably means he went through ground zero of the housing crisis in 2008. Pérez called the crisis "the toughest two years of my life.”
"You&apos;re going to sit down in five years and say, `I should have bought,&apos;&apos;&apos; he told the Miami Herald in October 2008.
The billionaire also happens to be an art lover. He has donated his entire $20 million Latin American art collection and an additional $20 million cash donation to the Miami Art museum, which has been controversially renamed the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami Dade County or PAMM.
When approached from the Lean perspective, Henry Laurence Gantt's Organizing for Work provides a window into the American origins of the 2nd Pillar of Lean - Respect For People. Henry Gantt, the creator of Gantt charts, galvanized the human aspect of efficiency with razor sharp clarity. Production improvements go astray because we have "ignored the human factor and failed to take advantage of the ability and desire of the ordinary man to learn and improve his position."
Cynthia A. Watson has been Professor of Strategy at the National War College since 1992, serving as a core course director, Associate Dean of Faculty and Curriculum, Director of Faculty Development, and Director of Electives. She earned a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Watson has authored several books on security issues, including Nation-Building (2004), U.S. National Security (one of CHOICE's top books of 2002), U.S. National Security Interest Groups (Greenwood, 1990), and was contributing co-editor of Political Role of the Military (Greenwood, 1996). She has written many articles as well. Her current research interests revolve around China's growing role in Latin America.
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This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen explore theatrical frames--from the playhouse, to the social conventions of masquerade, to the fictional frame of the novel itself-that encourage audiences to dismiss what they contain as feigned. Yet such frames also, as a result, create a safe space for self-expression. These authors explore such payoffs both within their work-through descriptions of heroines who disguise themselves to express themselves-and through it. Reading the act of authorship as itself a form of performance, Anderson contextualizes the convention of fictionality that accompanied the development of the novel; she notes that as the novel, like the theater of the earlier eighteenth century, came to highlight its fabricated nature, authors could use it as a covert yet cathartic space. Fiction for these authors, like theatrical performance for the actor, thus functions as an act of both disclosure and disguise-or finally presents self-expression as the ability to oscillate between the two, in "the play of fiction."
An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California, Emily Hodgson Anderson specializes in the 18th-century novel, drama, and women writers. She has published extensively on these topics, and others, in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in the Novel, and ELH.
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