Here's the number to remember: from where it is now, the US would need to create at least 200, 000 jobs a month, every month for 5 years, just to get unemployment back to its long-term average of 5%.

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"Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America, " he said.

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Too often we focus on the day to day decisions our businesses require of us and forget that we need be communicating how our businesses are going to create radical, positive change in the future.

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And we have to do it in a way that protects the recovery, protects the investments we need to grow, create jobs, and helps us win the future.

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To accurately assess the performance of this fund you would need to create your own benchmark that included the different US, international, and cash equivalent markets in the same percentage.

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If we need to create 80 million jobs in the next 10 years, let us just get on with it and remove the obstacles that have unknowingly been created.

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And we must also do it in a way that allows us to continue to invest in areas that will create the kind of economic foundation that we need to compete in the 21st century -- in education, infrastructure, innovation.

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That's why I have suggested, you know, putting money immediately into what I call green-collar jobs, you know, making it possible for us to put people to work, weatherizing homes and installing solar panels, because that will give us a jumpstart on what we need to be doing as we try to retool for an economy that has to create more jobs than it's doing.

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