[inaudible conversation] good evening everybody. Please find your seats. Thanks for joining us from this incredibly beautiful warm evening. My name is mark, executive editor at the creston these are our offices. We are happy to be tonight, this is above all a celebration of Louis Uchitelle and his new book making it why manufacturing still matters. Ive had the pleasure of working with lou over a number of years as his editor and striking up a great collaboration so i like to congratulate you on the publication, its been an exceptional response early on in this party is meant to anchor the launch of making it why manufacturing still matters. [applause] i want to thank you, im not sure this book would have happened. Youre a good editor. Thank you. So lou as many of you know has a distinguished pedigree and career in writing about america and writing about economics. For 25 years he reported on labor and economics for the New York Times. Before that he was a Foreign Correspondent for the
You can bat, folks are watching that forecast hoping to avoid more bad flooding. Take a look. The water is so deep that some people are floating around in kayaks. Erik waxler is live with how people are managing the best so far. Yes, most of the streets in this area are okay. But not this one. This is port richie and the problem is this retention pond spilled over because of all the rain overnight. And this street is impassable. And many homes are affected. The county has been out here all day long using the pump to pump this water into this tanker truck. It holds 6000 gallons of water in they have made more than trips 10 trips. These two ladies are both expecting mothers. But they were not expecting we have our pets here. It is worrisome. The retention pond spilled over earlier this morning and walk county workers do their best to pump out the water, she grabbed a sand bucket to try to dry out her car. The water hasnt reached her house yet. We have sandbags. So i guess right now were
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herman cain or the flat tax program of rick perry, both of those would be a vast improvement over the complex, completely unexplainable tax code that we have today. [applause] we have to reduce taxes, we have to simplify taxes, to stimulate the private sector. when i talk about this, i say that the democratic party believes in the government. we believe in people. the democratic party want to raise taxes, more money for the government. what we believe in is leaving more money in your hands and pocket because we believe you will do more creative, much better things and engage in more job creation with your money than washington will quit. take a look at the stimulus program. take a look at solyndra. look at the waist and not producing jobs. keep taxes low and keep that money in your hand so you can spend it. it will drive this economy through the roof. [applause] finally, another reason we have to reduce taxes. it is the reason i learned from my boss, ronald reagan. ronald rea