affordable care act, minimum wage, deficit taxes, they can continue to plumb their agenda which is an anti-government agenda. for example, corporate profitability over the last few years has hit the highest it e been on record. the story that obama is somehow unfair to business doesn t fit the theme of dodd frank doing the things you played in the tape. if they can get everyone to believe the aca, dodd frank, et cetera, are having these factually incorrect effects they say, then they can push back on implementation. they have already grid locked the process. that s what it s all about. there is good news about states that raised the minimum wage. the fact is they are seeing job
if this is what we re dealing with between now and november, it is absolutely critical for obama to make the case that, listen, last accept, a year ago, a year before this election, i put a real specific plan before congress that would have goosed growth in this country. it would have added jobs to the economy and they sat in their hands and did nothing. what the republicans are counting on, at a certain level, after three, four years after president obama being presented, people look around. they feel anxiety. there is an emotion that it is not. let s throw everything out and start over. that is a powerful emotion in politics. and it is very effective. it is happening in the moment. but joyann, even moody an it willics said if the american jobs act had passed, this is an independent economic an list, they said there would have been 2 million jobs create and 2% added to gdp within a year. right. the thing is, steve is exactly right. there is no incentive for republicans in congress
impression, he gives me the chills when i hear that. he failed miserably in the promises, he promised to grow the economy by creating jobs, cut government spending and reduce the death. we ranked from 36th to 47th in the country in growth, in job grow growth. he increased the size of government 6% and 200,000 residents left the commonwealth while he was governor. to take your accent, he was a titular governor in massachusetts. that s a very sweet of you to use an english accent. mitt romney talks all the time, as you know, about how terrible government is, he wants to shrink the size of government and all that. yet you say that the massachusetts state government was seventh in the nation in terms of how big it grew under mitt romney. it was 47th. the size of government crew.