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Joe Walsh: Retrain workers displaced by automation

Walsh: I believe in American ingenuity and American innovation. You're not stopping automation, and it is a good thing. It's making the American economy more efficient. Our manufacturing sector is actually a hell of a lot more productive now with fewer workers. So what does government need to do? Help retrain those workers. Because you can't stop the market. You've got to keep the market changing. It'll lead to good things. But government's got to play a role as the American economy goes through these seminal moments where we move from one industry to another.

Q: Can the states take care of it?

Walsh: States can take care of it but the federal government's got to play a role here too. This is a major transformation in our economy. The federal government along with state governments have got to devote resources to train all of these displaced workers.

Steve Stockman: Accepts Bitcoin donations as an alternative to fiat currency

The Bitcoin Center itself is still in something of a planning stage, existing more as a statement about Bitcoin itself, though it plans on hosting a hackathon later this month.

Stockman, a vocal opponent of Fed policy, told Business Insider last night that he wants to promote Bitcoin, whose most fervent evangelists tout as an alternative to "fiat currency" [such as dollars; Bitcoin is not backed by any government]. To do so, he is now accepting Bitcoin for his Senate campaign against incumbent John Cornyn.

Newt Gingrich: Treat WikiLeaks as enemy combatants engaged in terrorism

A: Information warfare is warfare, and Julian Assange is engaged in warfare. Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed is terrorism, and Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant. WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively. But even more, how can these documents have been released?

Q: Via a private in the Army.

A: How do you have a system so stupid [that an Army Private can] download a quarter million documents and the system doesn't say [anything]? I mean this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order. This administration is so shallow, and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.