By Niall Paterson, Sky News Correspondent
The Conservative leader has refused to say where welfare cuts will fall but insisted that British families still needed to take "the medicine" to help put the country back on track.
In a round of interviews setting out a pledge to create two million extra jobs over the course of the next parliament, David Cameron admitted there were more cuts to be made but would not say where they would fall.
The Conservatives have said they will find £12bn of welfare cuts over the next parliament if they are returned to power on 7 May but have indicated they will not tell voters of the details before the vote.
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Tackled on where the cuts would fall on Sky News Mr Cameron said: "The medicine is that we need to - for two more years - do what we have done for the last five, which is find £1 out of every £100 the Government spends and save it.
"So the choice at this election, if you simplify it, really is: do you want to find that £1saving out of every £100, which families and businesses up and down the country have had to do or do you want to scrap that plan and put up taxes and borrow more."
Mr Cameron said that they had managed to find £20bn of welfare savings in the last five years.
Answering claims he would go down as the "biggest Scrooge prime minister", Mr Cameron said he didn't come into office to make cuts but when he came to power Britain had a budget deficit forecast to be bigger than that of Greece and he had to do the job.
He also dismissed criticism over using his outgoing address at Number 10, at which he officially announces the General Election, to attack his opponent Ed Miliband.
He was the first prime minister to use the platform to speak against the opposition leader but when asked if it was "not cricket", Mr Cameron told Sky's Eamonn Holmes: "In cricket there are two opposing teams".
And he denied he had been in "secret talks" over a coalition and intended to spend the next 37 days working for a majority.
He also said that his wife, Samantha, had not been behind his decision to announce he would only serve two terms as Prime Minister.
Mr Cameron believes the Tories can match the job creation of the past five years, during which the Coalition created an average of 1,000 new jobs every day.
As the second day of campaigning gets under way, the Prime Minister said: "We are the jobs party - and over the next month, we will be fighting for every man and woman who wants to work and earn a wage."
The pledge comes exactly a year after Chancellor George Osborne set a goal of full employment for Britain.
Mr Cameron argues an additional two million jobs is a feasible target thanks to government assistance for business, competitive tax rates, a parliament-long campaign against red tape, plus investment in infrastructure.
He said Labour's plans to reverse corporation tax cuts was a "crazy thing to do when the economy is growing".
The Prime Minister's first outing of the election campaign proper was to address a rally of supporters at a school in Chippenham - a marginal constituency they need to take if they are to stand any chance of winning a majority.
Speaking at the event, Mr Cameron admitted he is not the "perfect" Prime Minister - but insisted he has a record to be "proud" of.
"I don't claim that I have got every call right or that I am the perfect Prime Minister," he said.
"But I know this. I had a job to do in 2010 and it was about sorting out our economy, getting the deficit down and getting people back to work."
On the first day of Labour's campaign, Mr Miliband tried to win over business with the launch of the party's first "mini manifesto".
Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats today sought to distinguish themselves from the Conservatives, and other parties, by focusing on mental health with a pledge of extra funding.
The party promised an additional £3.5bn over the next parliament, with the aim of "revolutionising" adult and child mental health care.
Announcing the pledge, Mr Clegg said: "Equality for people with mental health issues is a liberal mission.
"In government again, we will continue to put mental health front and centre of the political debate.
"That's why I am so immensely proud that we are the first party to put equality for people with mental health problems on the front page of our full General Election manifesto.
"Only the Liberal Democrats can keep Britain on track and provide both a stronger economy and a fairer society with strong public services."
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