lessons of freeport, we need to prevent it from happening again. democrats are trying to pass the bring jobs home act in congress. it would give tax incentives to companies bringing jobs back to the united states and end its tax breaks for those who are outsourcers. the bill was passed in the senate. it was passed in the senate, but the bill got, of course, another republican filibuster. now, how patriotic is it? the bill is exhibit a. in president obama s vision for america. the president understands why we can t surrender the middle class. when you think about the economy, i m absolutely convinced when you look at the historical record that when middle class families do well, when there are ladders of opportunity for poor families to get into the immediately class, the intierb economy does well.
romney s philosophy. mitt romney and his people believe in this economic model and they make money off it. it s that simple. that s it. it s all about the dollar. and on the other hand, president obama has a totally different vision for america. and he s proved it. because the president has cut taxes 18 times on small businesses to help the middle class. president obama has been pushing hard to bring jobs home act. the bill that would, of course, provide a 20% tax break for companies moving jobs back to america. and it would help have penalized companies who would outsource jobs out of america. but guess who blocked all of that in the congress? the republicans. president obama has cracked down big-time on china. these are the facts.
national right to work. he s against card check. he s against project labor agreements. he s already said that. on top of that, you put ryan who voted against extending unemployment. he s againstotia, he s against fair pay for women who do equal work. he voted against the bring the jobs home act. he s basically anti-labor. you have two aten-labor people out there right now, and that s what we re going to tell our members. that s what we re going to go out and articulate to our members and say this is a clear choice. if you want somebody who is out to end the union that protects you, to end your ability to be in the middle class, then you better make sure that you vote for barack obama. mr. cohen, what about what mr. hoffa said? wouldn t this be a big motivated moment for wage earners in the country to get out and do what they have to do? absolutely. politics is about choices. and the choice is more clear now than it was last week. american workers want more and
he s against project labor agreements. he s already said that. on top of that, you put ryan who voted against extending unemployment. he s against osha, he s against fair pay for women who do equal work. he voted against the bring the jobs home act. he s basically anti-labor. you have two aten-labor people out there right now, and that s what we re going to tell our members. that s what we re going to go out and articulate to our members and say this is a clear choice. if you want somebody who is out to end the union that protects you, to end your ability to be in the middle class, then you better make sure that you vote for barack obama. mr. cohen, what about what mr. hoffa said? wouldn t this be a big motivated moment for wage earners in the country to get out and do what they have to do? absolutely. politics is about choices. and the choice is more clear now than it was last week. american workers want more and better social security, not less. income replacement is already amon
that s wrong in america. and finally, we have a president speaking out on that. that s our barack obama. you have a senate trying to do something, too. tomorrow, the senate is going to vote on the bring the jobs home act to eliminate the tax deductions for offshoring and to encourage insourcing, meaning where they would bring jobs back to america, get a 20% tax credit. where are the republicans and mitt romney on this one? i guarantee they re against it. this has come up with the bush administration. they tried to do it where they bring it back and it went into all kinds of buying stock and giving big bonuses to executives. that s not what it s about. if they want to bring the money back that s offshore, there s billions of dollars, by the way, over there with pfizer and general electric, offshore. they can bring it back, but they have got to create jobs here in this country. build a factory, put people to work. then we can bring the money back. we ll give them a deal on the rate,