stem, you have the opportunity to do that. you have the freedom to choose. and i tell you what, martha, i will always go to the mat and fight for freedom, free people, free markets around i think for the federal government to come in and take away the choice that people have had in the health caremarkket and say, hey, we don t like what you ve been buying. we re going to make you buy this. what is the next thing going to be? you can t buy that solo cup? you can t buy an inexpensive blouse? you can t buy a pair of shoes that cost less than another pair? so do they think that the federal government is going to become the determiner of the cost and price and set prices of everything that you can buy at a quality point that they say is worthy? come on. this is absolutely ridiculous. i am not going to sit here and let them get by with this. we re going to continue our
optimistic about the economy. it s at its highest level since 2007. many workers expect their income, incom incomes to rise while homeowners see the value of their houses at a six-year high. the president has been focusing on a couple of these issues in his speeches and will continue to do so today. and he said last week that today, five years after the start of the great recession, america has fought its way back. is that really true or is it still kind of convoluted? i think what the president was talking about was we ve dealt with the near term crisis that impacted our economy in late 2000. the economy s growing. it s adding jobs. but, you know, typically and this is true with a lot of our response in government over decades, we re good at responding to the immediate dangers of a crisis, but the ap story and continued income equality point out the fact we ve got a long-term problem