HANNITY: Mr. Speaker, welcome to the program. By the way, you're out at the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab for America at Risk right now, right?
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: That's right. The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab is a brilliant museum in Denver. I wish every American city had one. And if anybody comes to Denver, the city of John Elway, I certainly hope --
HANNITY: Yes.
GINGRICH: If they're going to go to the cell and see this remarkable museum about terrorism around the world, and I'm here tonight to talk about the threats to the United States.
HANNITY: Well, maybe --
GINGRICH: But I have to say, I have to say your opening -- these guys create the longest, deepest recession, since the great depression. In June more Americans were on food stamps than ever before in history.
The Democrats have become the party of food stamps. The Republicans are becoming the party of paychecks. And the guys who have made the unemployment, killed the jobs, created the food stamps, are now complaining that the American people don't like that future?
I think it's pretty sad that they can't stand up and defend their own policies.
HANNITY: You've been giving a speech around the country and I've been following it. And basically what you're saying is that if you want unemployment and you want food stamps, vote for the Democrats. If you want a job, if you want a paycheck, vote Republican.
Is it really that simple? Is that what this debate has now become?
GINGRICH: Well, look, I think it's that clear. If you look at the Republican pledge in the House. It is to create jobs, to control Washington spending, to cut taxes, to have a new, dramatic breakthrough in how to control regulations and bureaucracy.
It's a step towards a full employment economy. If you look at what we've advocated in American Solutions with Congressman Jordan's Economic Freedom Act. It's a step towards real job creation.
Then you look at the Obama, Pelosi, Reid job destruction program, bigger taxes, bigger bureaucracy, bigger red tape.
But here's the big thing. When Congress, the Democrats, voted to leave town without settling the tax question, they guaranteed that every American business is living in uncertainty. And therefore they have crippled job creation for the next three or four months.
And I don't think they even realized -- everywhere I go businesses say to me, how can they have this health bill? How can they have this financial regulatory bill? How can they have this confusion over taxes and expect us to create jobs?
Obama is extending the recession by the destructiveness of his failure. And that makes them the party of food stamps.
HANNITY: All right. It sounds to me like you're putting together like a great, great defense attorney. Your closing argument or a great prosecutor your closing argument here.
The president, though, is the one that launched what was supposed to be for them this massive class warfare debate, which is, you know, he talked about millionaires and billionaires and attacked big business.
And this was all going to lead up to this vote on extending the Bush tax cuts. They leave town without the vote, which I think was utterly cowardly on their part. But in part they had to leave because Democrats wouldn't go along for the first time, with the agenda of the leadership.
GINGRICH: Well, let me go back to this whole issue of killing jobs. The president proposed a tax increase on over half the profits of small businesses in America. Democrats went back home and they began to be told by every business they talked to that the president's proposal would kill jobs.
And so they came back and said to Nancy Pelosi and to Harry Reid, we're not going to vote with to you kill jobs. And all of a sudden the president's totally political, totally demagogic class warfare disintegrated.
Let me tell you. If you're having your job killed and you're ending up on food stamps because of the Obama policies, class warfare doesn't make you feel very good. What Obama has done is he's tried trickle down bureaucracy with a $787 billion stimulus package.
He has imposed gigantic federal controls through the Barney Frank reform bill. He has imposed enormous costs through the health bill and now he has totally muddled the tax situation.
The result is, let me repeat this, the longest, deepest recession since the great depression. No sign that it's going to end. And the president's policies are the reason. And so I think it's fair to say they have by killing jobs become the party of food stamps. And the Republicans have a chance to become the party of paychecks.
HANNITY: Well, and the statistics back you up. I mean for the first time since we have been keeping statistics, one in seven Americans are now in poverty. Poverty defined as a family of four making $22,000 a year.
We have 45 percent of the American people now, Mr. Speaker, that are dependent on some type of government benefit in some way, shape, manner or form. What I find interesting is the Democrats' response to this.
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