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I Want To Invest In Research. Research Is Great. Providing Funding To Universities And Think Tanks Is Great. But Investing In Companies? Absolutely Not.

I'm A Big Believer In Getting Money From Where The Money Is, And The Money Is In Washington. I Learned From Running The Olympics That You Can Get Money There To Help Build Economic Opportunities. We Actually Got Over $410 Million From The Federal Government; That Is A Huge Increase Over Anything Ever Done Before. We Did That By Going After Every Agency Of Government. That Kind Of Creativity I Want To Bring To Everything We Do (in Massachusetts).

The People Who Are Having The Hard Time Right Now Are Middle-income Americans. Under The President's Policies, Middle-income Americans Have Been Buried. They're Just Being Crushed. Middle-income Americans Have Seen Their Income Come Down By $4,300. This Is A Tax In And Of Itself. I'll Call It The Economy Tax. It's Been Crushing.

I Went To Massachusetts To Make A Difference. I Didn't Go There To Begin A Political Career Running Time And Time Again. I Made A Difference. I Put In Place The Things I Wanted To Do.

The Tarp Program Was Nevertheless Necessary To Keep Banks From Collapsing In A Cascade Of Failures.