president believe we should close the tax loopholes that reward and make it easier for american companies to ship jobs overseas, period. mark kirk says no, keep the loopholes in place. that s i dramatic difference. if we re going to have good-paying jobs right here at home, let s reward those companies that pay a living wage, good benefits and retirement so american workers can live the american dream. that s how you build this economy. let s talk about building. it seems to me right now the consumption level in this country is down, the business investment s down. we need some other form of demand. and i say this so much every night. other people on this network do, too. what happened to america s tendency over the years, up until now to build stuff, like building chicago out of nothing? building new york out of nothing? building the intercontinental railroad? building the golden gate bridge? building everything? now we see china with 300-mile-an-hour railroads. we see the french no
that i write, why don t corporations have to do the same thing or trillion nair and billionaires and millionaires? if a $2 contribution by grandma joseph in st. louis, missouri, has to be reported by a campaign, why not 25 million? there seems to be some imbalance here and i don t understand why that is there. there is hip pock crosscy developing among our politician, republican and democrat, they will come out in public and claim to be for transparency, claim to be for the solutions to problems like the one a thursday talking about. right. but when you look at their voting records, too many of them too often vote against every bit of transparency, whether it is the coburn earmarked transpar transparentranspare transparency database or the disclose act. can you give us a little insight how prevalent that rhetorical versus voting hypocrisy is? that had is a timely question. the debate in illinois between mark kirk and state treasurer alexy giannoulias, the question was asked of
another guy that will buck the trend? i m glad you are in sweet home chicago, chris matthews, and i wish i could be there. but i m glad to be in philadelphia, state of brotherly love and sisterly affection, as mayor nutter says. i will tell you what i m seeing here on the ground i see in every state i visit. we have got the ground game. our people understand that chuck todd s statistics have to be translated into votes at home. and as i go into the headquarters, joe sestak has 26 headquarters across the commonwealth of pennsylvania. i went in today at 11:00. they re on the phones. they re working them hard. nobody s taking anything for granted. the energy factor, the enthusiasm factor is moving them toward our side. well, let me ask you about this fight out here between giannoulias and kirk. they are fighting about their war records. i didn t get into it because all they did last night was fight about it i didn t get into it. kirk seems to be confusing how he presents his battle in
goes to the english channel. we don t build anymore. nobody is making steel. nobody is building railroads. nobody is doing anything in heavy industry. young african-americans grow up in all-white neighborhoods with no jobs. what are we going to do about it? we are doing something about it. the president started us down that road. look at the state of illinois, high-speed rail coming to our state, creating thousands of jobs. clean-coal technology grants coming into our state, the largest clean coal technology in our history to build a pipeline to reduce pollution, $250 million to bring high-speed internet across the state of illinois. president obama knows this is the way to build america and he couldn t get a republican, including congressman mark kirk, to even stand behind him and cast a vote to move us forward with good-paying american jobs. i couldn t agree with you more, chris, let s build the infrastructure for the 21st century so that we can make america number one again. wel
another guy that will puck the trend? i m glad you are in sweet home chicago, chris matthews, and i wish i could be there. but i m glad to be in philadelphia, state of brotherly love and sisterly affection, as mayor nutter says. i will tell you what i m seeing here on the ground i see in every state i visit. we have got the ground game. our people understand that chuck todd s statistics have to be translated into votes at home. and as i go into the headquarters, joe sestak has 26 headquarters across the commonwealth of pennsylvania. i went in today at 11:00. they are on the phones. they are working them hard. nobody s taking anything for granted. the energy factor, the enthusiasm factor is moving them toward our side. well, let me ask you about this fight out here between giannoulias and kirk. they are fighting about their war records. all they did last night was fight about it i didn t get into t kirk seems to be confusing how he presents his battle in the war. he says at least i