of the tea party to get rid of the minimum wage, correct? well and and minimum wage, health care, public education. you know when we were at the one nation you ve got it mixed up. well, when we were at the one nation rally i made it very clear, the same speech that a. phillip randolph gave, they re enemies of minimum wage, public financing public education, social security. these are all platforms that are spread across the country. president obama going for the young vote, he held a townhall meeting with mtv today and the kids. here it is. my question to you is, why should we still support you going forward with your monetary and economic policies and if the economy does not improve over the next two years, why should we vote you back in? well, that was a there s a lot of stuff in there, so let me try to unpack that. most of the 8 million jobs that we lost during this recession were lost before my economic policies were even put into
going to happen in november. as we move towards, people are going to see these are radical policies, radical republicans, they are quite honestly remind me of dixiecrates back during the strom thurmond era. here is senator demint saying that all of this conversation is uniting america. here it is. really what we re doing here in washington has united america. when i go to a tea party, 40% of the people there are independents and democrats. the tea party. well, look, who was it, a. phillip randolph said during the 60 the march, the march on washington. look at who is opposed to social security. look at who is opposed to public education. look at who is of opposed to health care. look at who is opposed to minimum wages and those are the people that you will find who are the enemies of the democrats and the folks who want to move this party forward. i had an interview with the president of the united states. he did say something very strong to me.
i think that kas hel a better chance of winning but i think that she s got a pretty good chance of winning. the only thing that i disagree with ed it s not an r it s a double r. these are radical republicans that we re talking about and i think that s exactly what s going to happen in november. as we move towards, people are going to see these are radical policies, radical republicans, they are quite honestly remind me of dixiecrates back during the strom thurmond era. here is senator demint saying that all of this conversation is uniting america. here it is. really what we re doing here in washington has united america. when i go to a tea party, 40% of the people there are independents and democrats. the tea party. well, look, who was it, a. phillip randolph said during the 60 the march, the march on washington. look at who is opposed to social security. look at who is opposed to public education. look at who is of opposed to health care. look at who is opposed to
behind on their mortgage payments and facing foreclosure, the white house is responding with the backing of billions of dollars, many argue the money will help the banks more than the homeowners who need the help the most. stephen moore is summer economic writer for the wall street journal, my guest from d.c. great to be with you. how do we do a followup on a zebra story? phillip: we could have ran another animal in front of you. might have made a better metaphor. but zebra is as good as we could do right now! listen, a $2 billion program, what s it designed to do, stephen? i have on my butcher sticker, it said honk if i paid your mortgage and people are honking at me as they go down the street! this is the fifth mortgage relief program we ve had now in washington in the last 18 months, almost none of them have worked. we ve spent about $200 billion of t.a.r.p. money on mortgage relief and
engaged. i think it s too early in this presidency to give him a grade. i think that american citizens have to grade themselves and get involved. you have to e-mail your congressman or woman. i think that one of the gifts yes, i would say one of the gifts of the tea party is their activism, and so i think that all americans need to be fully engaged. in fact, that is what we re supposed to do. our competition helps us do that, our founding fathers tell us to do that. and really, all of the great presidents. fdr told a. phillip randolph when he wanted to have a march in 1941, he was complaining of segregation in the armed forces, he said you you know, i agree with every grievance you have but now you must march in the streets and do it and that s what americans must do if they want change. march marp you re urging people to get involved if they don t like the way things are going. thank you very much, good to have you with us today. thank you very much. bill: you talked about the sti