it has cost our economy dearly. never been a political issue until now because of president obama and their flat out hatred for the man. quickly, scott, would $302 billion make an impact? would it have an impact? is that a good start, a good number. it would keep our head above water so the problem doesn t get worse. we can rebuild some of the bridges but we need to do more and we have to pay for it, too. bob shrum, fox and friends, fired on for attending scheduled events. they cited george bush s response to 9/11 attacks. isn t this a baseless comparison, how baseless is this? they attack him about anything. you have the wonderful piece of film showing bush saying the terrorists will pay for this. and then turning to the golf tee and saying watch this drive.
or reagan. this is a president, does it really have to matter, to come to the decision we need to do something for our country that we ve always done in the past? can t we agree on this? president obama s grow america act would authorize $302 billion in transportation funding over the next four years. and the white house estimates that it would create over 1 million jobs. it s a win for everybody. now, if you re a governor of a state, and you had bridges that were in really bad shape, would you feel compelled as a liberal or a conservative governor to say, you know, maybe we ought to do something about this. president obama said that it wouldn t add a dime to the deficit. my plan would not add to what is already a rapidly shrinking deficit. we ve cut our deficit, by the way, by more than half since i came into office [ applause ] and we wouldn t be adding to the deficit, because because
like america being number 19 when it comes to infrastructure. it just kind of turned out to happen on your watch. if congress fails to act, if they fail to act, current transportation funding is going to run out later this year. now they re trying to rob the fund from the postal workers. now, the president s bill provides $302 billion in funding over the next four years. if this bill is not approved, here we go again. 700,000 jobs could be in jeopardy. republicans need to stop obstructing and build some bridges and roads and the president has to put americans back to work. it takes the public and private sector to make this thing go and they need to reject the tpp and start approving these common sense bills to create jobs. what would be the question you would ask? yourself reppive as they go home this summer? how about number one, where do you stand on the free trade agreement that will send jobs overseas? how do you feel about being 19th in the world when it comes to
happy birthday, john. thank you. you woke up and said the one thing i want to spend my birthday is fox & friends. absolutely. you cut the budget on your birthday, by the way. thank you. that s a gift. speaking of what do you think of the new proposal here, the road? for you old people out there to explain the fallon joke, they don t know what a road map is and don t know what jobs are. but look, we re going broke. and they re going to argue about should we spend 6% more or 7% more? this is 6.8% more. inflation is 2%. can t they just limit it to the size of inflation? no. we are going broke. they re addicted to spending. addicted to spending. let s look at some of these. this is how it breaks down. $60 billion in increased tax. this is what the president is proposing. it s not going to happen. 13.5 million for the working poor. $302 billion on roads and bridges. i thought that was supposed to have been done before. shovel ready. shovel ready projects.
let that be known. it s not happening. all right. so, cutting spending is not happening. watching where all this is going down, michael? the budget blueprint has taken a lot of heat because it s seen as not making the tough choices about the major drivers of our debt. it s a $3.9 trillion plan laying out the president s priorities. it includes spending $302 billion on highways and railroads and mass transit. it provides more money for job training and preschool and it expands tax credits for an estimated 13.5 million low-income workers and it increases taxes more than $650 billion on higher-income americans and it adds $56 billion in fees for big banks. there are also tax increases for tobacco products and airline passengers. the president s plan in print form arrived up on capitol hill this morning this morning. congress prefers to do the budgeting itself, so it s not like whatever the president sent would be accepted but it can be