they raise the value of their stock. it doesn't do anything for creating jobs. >> i think this fits in with the green new deal and i applaud my colleagues for putting this together. what this is a recognition that our economy, the american economy, has done more to bring more people out of poverty and provide for prosperity than any other economic system in history. we're seeing the gains of that have gone to the top echelon of our society and those gains have not been widespread. we need to reconfigure that. >> in the 50s and 60s, you could have one person in the family -- you recollected afford that. kids would go to college. those days are way gone. >> those days are gone. the 50s and 60s had our own separate set of struggles. with a single wage earner, you