in 1950. you can t tell me as a country that over 64 years, we can t have a higher minimum wage that allows more people to work with dignity. david, don t you find it interesting that the dogma post-clinton is pro-immigration at a time when we have a much larger supply of labor than we need, and pro free trade. even though we are supposed to be green gas oriented, we know where those jobs go. those jobs leave this country to countries that can pollute all they want. we need to defense against the countries that take our jobs and pollute all over. we don t care about that. what we care about is when workers come from other countries to this country, they get jobs. why don t we care about our people? let me turn the page with our remaining time. the stock market. how bullish are you in 2014? the stock market is about profits and about washington staying out of the way. we have washington off the table for now, we have balanced
children in poverty. but minimum wage workers with two children, some of them do. we can address that, and by the way, right now the minimum wage is at the same real level it was in 1950. you can t tell me as a country that over 64 years, we can t have a higher minimum wage that allows more people to work with dignity. david, don t you find it interesting that the dogma post-clinton is pro-immigration at a time when we have a much larger supply of labor than we need, and pro free trade. even though we are supposed to be greenhouse gas oriented, we know where those jobs go. those jobs leave this country to countries that can pollute all they want. why didn t the democrats say we need to defense against the countries that take our jobs and pollute all over. we don t care about that. what we care about is when workers come from other countries to this country, they get jobs. why don t we care about our people? let me turn the page with our remaining time. the stock market.
the bulk of their material advantage resources from overseas. that s the tension that exists here which is exactly why in pursuing policies of fair trade the president just won an important victory from the world trade organization by going after the way in which china supplements its steel industry. there s a way to work without having our head in the sand about whether or not it s the truth is president obama s done a great job enforcing our trade laws. he brought cases on chinese tires, on the chinese subsidies of energy and on steel. he s won a bunch of them. this is a big contrast to george w. bush. it s also a huge contrast to mitt romney. he stood up when president obama did the chinese tire case and to protect american jobs and he did protect over 1,000 american jobs in the chinese tire industry here in the united states and romney criticized him and said, we re just holding on to unproductive workers. we just need to let those jobs
ecosphere. i do think another institution we were talking about, everyone seems to be waiting for the court, has been waiting for the court. that s not new. it happened in the roosevelt period where there was a confrontation between congress, the executive and the court. i would argue the federal reserve has become an important institution. we keep waiting for smoke signals from them. to me, the central issue of this campaign is the kind of economic future this country will have and jobs at the center of it. with a congress gridlocked or roadblocked because of i think republicans unwilling to let jobs go through oh, please, you know. i ve taken two shots against the gop but it s better than living in the fantasy land that actually, we have done something over the last four years as 23 million americans are still trying to get a job and still trying to turn the economy around. the reality of it is both parties have stepped in it big-time and this election will be a big election to y
room . all eyes on the supreme court expected to issue its ruling on thursday on president obama s signature first-term achievement, health care reform. it s a hot topic on the2007 supporting president bush s use of the same authority. that s right. and with the supreme court case on health care reform expected to come down on thursday, joe, i think it s going to get a lot hotter. jim acosta, thanks so much for that. appreciate it. now we re just going to get a little more on this with cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. the candidates argue over the economy and who has a better plan for the future. when you start looking at the water s edge, it gets more complicated. it is very complicated. it s very difficult when you re president to talk about how the rest of the world effects us. because you don t want to look like you re whining. you don t want to look like you re assigning blame elsewhere. but having said that, the truth of the matter is that what s g