jobs bill. what we re going to do is break up my jobs bills. maybe they couldn t understand the whole thing all at once. so we re going to break it up into bite-size pieces so they can take a thoughtful approach to this legislation. if they vote against taking steps that we know will put americans back to work right now, right now, then they re not going to have to answer to me. they re going to have to answer to you. get ready, republicans, because you ll have a chance to answer to the american people really soon. today senate democrats unveiled the first standalone piece of the american jobs act. $35 billion to preserve jobs for teachers and first responders. it s a bill that creates or protects nearly 400,000 education jobs.
take our country back to the people! let the history books reflect that on october 15th was the beginning of working people coming together, standing up and demanding jobs and justice. because if they say cut back, we re going to say, fight back. if they say cut back, we say here today, you have the foot soldiers fighting for economic dignity, fighting for jobs for americans, fighting for americans together to not simply be about the rich but be about all of the way america is. they want to take away our vote in 34 states talking about voter id, talking about ending early registration, ending early voting. they want to honor dr. king and
more in fact, it s gone up since september. he has risen nine points in who they trust to create jobs and the republicans have gone down six points. so maybe richard s point is being communicated to the american public where they understand their priority is not creating jobs. their priority is politics, what is growing trust that the president is trying to create jobs. i think they ve seen that. they ve seen it in every big debate we had when we almost shut down the government in the spring with the debt ceiling debacle as richard accurately described it. americans have lost all faith in the republican congresses. republicans have to look over their right shoulder at being challenged in a primary. but they have to start getting worried, some of them at least, over having lost the rest of the american people. with continuing to fight any kind of increase in taxes, even to take it back to the 1990
rates on the richest americans, many of whom have done nothing particularly useful to get rich, and in firing teachers so we can pay for tax cuts for the richest americans, they just can t keep doing that. i think if you look at the fact that they always talk about, well, regulation has been the problem and this is what has strangled the corporate america that they can t move because they re regulated. the fact of the matter is, if you look at the bureau of labor statistics, 0.2% of layoffs was caused by government regulation, 30.6% caused by lack of demand. so it s just a blatant lie, it s hogwash what they re saying. but already before the bill even gets to the senate, this breakdown of now how we re going to go piece by piece, eric cantor, before he even studied how it breaks down, this is what eric cantor showed in the spirit
cain was on meet the press this weekend. and he made an interesting admission about his 9-9-9 plan, that it actually might raise some taxes on some people. let me not be accused of misquoting him. let me show you what he said himself. the wealthiest americans would pay less, the poorest americans and middle class would pay more. you don t dispute that? i do dispute that. more people will pay less in taxes. more people will pay less in tax it s incontrovertible. that s right. some people will pay more. but most people will pay less is my argument. and those some people, dana, are the people that go and buy things with the sales tax people in state that is don t have a sales tax. talking about working people and poor people, are those some people. right. and believe it or not, that was probably his most coherent