People working to get themselves out of poverty. Sam from the financial times. Thanks very much. You were talking earlier about the u. S. As a bright spot, among advanced economies. The story of the president ial campaign has not been that American Voters feel this has been a bright spot recovery. Is there a risk the administration is feeling out of touch with public mood about the u. S. Economy at the moment or are we overestimating just how negative people feel about the economy . First of all, i dont know, you know i look at evidence from the measures that economists look at about how people feel about the economy are the Consumer Sentiment index and the Consumer Confidence index from the Conference Board and the university of michigan. When you look at measures like that, you see that confidence has been consistently rising since the recession. And last year reached levels we hadnt seen in over a decade. So i see a number of ways in which people are positive both about their situat
So if youd be good enough to withdraw your language in the appropriation bill or tell mr. Mccarthy to do that, that would be a good first start for us. We are not going to get 1 as long as there is a long voyage language in the appropriation bills that says no federal money can be spent on california high speed rail. That does not help us. That does not help but get any more product money to the project. That is why i say we are looking for private investment. Amendments are not meant to help you. They are meant to stop this product until we see a plan terry we have been talking about this for two years. But something i can bring back to my state, my district and say this is the plan. Like the last time we talked about it, i suggested he said that with mr. Dan richard and go over the plan and review it. I would be happy to have mr. Iraq mr. Richard sit down with you and review what the plan is. If he does that, would you withdraw your language . When you can jammeh this project is full
It sets the framework we are now operating under and we will be looking at a reauthorization in the next congress and it is very important. Let me say whether we abuilding highspeed rail, innercity Passenger Rail, transit services, any kind of infrastructure highways you would not want to build the four lane highway where there are no passengers or vehicles with access that you would not want to build a city Transit System where you dont have adequate capacity and passengers to use that facility, the same thing holds true anymore with passenger service. When i heard president obama and this administration, beginning to promote high speed rail, unfortunately most of the money, the 10 billion, does not go for highspeed rail. They chose instead to support almost 150 projects and that number is growing and a lot of that money has been left behind. In fact, most of the money that has been read dedicated to high speed rail has been sent back by states including my state, the state of florida