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“By 2020, Medicaid is going to bankrupt every state in the country.”

Facing the threat of globalization and the out-sourcing of American jobs, he said that it was a “problem and an opportunity.

“The country has to step up, but it’s going to take a willingness to demand results and to invest,” he said. “Americans are saying, ‘Give me government that is efficient and effective and that gets results.’ ”

In Washington

Looking to Washington, he leveled some criticism of the current administration.

“President Bush could have stepped up and brought us all together after 9/11, a national call to arms to sacrifice and fix our problems,” he said. “He didn’t, and I’m sorry that he didn’t. Americans need a leader to step up and offer a solution as opposed to spending all the time on hot button social issues.”

Being the Guv

Surely there were things about being governor that any

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