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both parties claim to be all about jobs. as you know, house republicans have been focused on economic growth and jobs since day one. a three letter word, jobs. j-o-b-s, jobs. thank you, joe. but the truth is, jobs aren t created so much when the government does something as they are when the government stops doing things that put an anchor instead of a life vest around the next of entrepreneurs. we hear a lot about values, but do we value the work and the people that do it? if so, we ought to pay them as though we value them and their work. companies ought to pay employees as generously as they can because good workers have worth. if the employer keeps too much for himself, he or she doesn t really value the worker. by the way, the reason that high taxes are bad is because it is a
recover from the worst crisis of our lifetimes. i think it s important we do what we can do speed the recovery. if we get faster economic growth, we ll get faster job growth. most importantly, congress should avoid getting in the way and manufacture crisis by not raising the debt ceiling in a fashion without any drama. i mean, i think we ve discussed this before, but isn t the dirty little secret here about this sort of jobless recovery is too strong a word and i know you wouldn t use that. sort of the fact that jobs aren t coming back as fast but corporations are doing well, they re sort of fundamentals of a lot of the american economies doing well? a lot of corporations just figure out how to do more with less? i think it s a mixture of things. we re now seeing 41 months in a row with 7.3 million jobs added over that period. the problem is we lost nearly 9 million jobs during the economic crisis. so we re slowly digging our way out of the deep hole. we want to accelerate that.
cost of living in other places. it is quite a bit higher. a family of four requires about $88,000 in order to live. the fact that d.c. would require wal-mart to pay its employees more is perfectly in line with a well-functioning market. steve: by the same idea, the people of washington, d.c. would enjoy lower prices, and now wal-mart, kevin, is not going to apparently build those stores there unless the mayor goes ahead and vetoes it, and those jobs aren t going to be there. it just doesn t seem like it seems like they re trying to jam this down wal-mart s throat because they are successful and none union. the unionized employers, when they bring in, they start them out at lower wages. unions tried to organize wal-mart and the workers don t want to do it and the reason is it is a nice career path.
we only have to count to number one every year. roll tide. so we hear on one hand we re doing better than everybody else, but then you dig in and you see, just like you said, even great britain is outpacing us on job growth. germany is crushing us. all those people saying, oh, austerity is bad. really? angela merkel has a hell of a record. it s hard to tell exactly, why aren t the jobs coming back here? i think the jobs aren t coming back here in part because small business is just horrendous in this country. we are not starting that s who hires. joe, we know small business hires. and the creation is bad, and i think the health care act is going to be very difficult for a small business person to be able to say, you know, i want to get in. why not wait? so our small business and commercial real estate nowhere. there s no cranes in this. you fly over this great country, you won t see any cranes. you go to other countries, you ll see more cranes. that s where the jobs are, infrastruc