as we told you, former new mexico governor gary johnson and marijuana legalization advocate is making a last-minute trip to new hampshire because they forgot to file before time runs out to get on the state s primary ballot. what a way to start the friday, filing day panel here. phil muster is president of new frontier strategy and former adviser to the tim pawlenty. he s the and didi meyers, white house press secretary for president clinton. there s nobody on the tarmac today flying. who knew gary johnson the joke writes itself, right? he will ski into the it is, but the reality is we re talking about new hampshire and we re talking about filing the deadline and is new hampshire competive and will it get competitive? it s stronger than people realize? it s stronger than people realize. they re doing the retail. perry is up there today speaking to an important social conservative group.
yeah. that is probably. it is another example. what henry ford said when he paid them $5 a day. i want my workers to be able to afford to buy the cars we are producing. welll paid workers are good for the economy and not a drag on the economy. if you measured the economy as capitol inindustries it is horrible. the facts are, forget about sweden, in the united states, capitol industries have died because they were not cost competive . the unions have cystently lost jobs. it is inarguable fact that if we take our last company like boeing that is iffing and creating job strangle them. they have the right and
were wages that didn t rise because every dime of what employers paid was taken by health care cost, so it may be everything that krista and mike spence say is correct. and they re in the throat of the american middle class is the rising cost of health care. it s certainly is the case, and health care costs have made us less competive and it was the case that the sect worse we have been dominant from an industrial, and from a manufacturing perspective were most readily susceptible to foreign competition, automobiles, for instance, steel and heavy industry and those jobs, middle class jobs which have been the bashing of unionized workers is gone. i don t disagree with david. i think it s expensive and delivers poor results and that s a weight on the u.s. economy, but this process is happening in all of the western industrialized countries. australia is different because it s a natural, resource-based economy. what we re seeing is technology is taking away jobs.
employers paid was taken by health care cost, so it may be everything that krista and mike spence say is correct. and they re in the throat of the american middle class is the rising cost of health care. it s certainly is the case, and health care costs have made us less competive and it was the case that the sect worse we have been dominant from an industrial, and from a manufacturing perspective were most readily susceptible to foreign competition, automobiles, for instance, steel and heavy industry and those jobs, middle class jobs which have been the bashing of uni unionized workers is gone. i don t disagree with david. i think it s expensive and delivers poor results and that s a weight on the u.s. economy, but this process is happening in all of the western industrialized countries. australia is different because it s a natural, resource-based economy. what we re seeing is technology is taking away jobs.
my number one focus is going to be making sure that we are competive, that we are growing, and that we are creating jobs not just now, but well into the future. and that s what is going to be the main topic of the state of the union. welcome back. that was president obama in a message to supporters just the other day saturday. here s how republican leaders mitch mcconnell and eric cantore reacted yesterday. he s quit bashing business and is celebrating business. it s about time. the only way we can get unemployment down and get out of this economic trough is through private sector growth and development. excessive government spending, running up debt making us look like a western european country is the wrong direction. that s the direction they took the first two years. on increasing government