long way to go, congresswoman. oh, no. i like the bill that one of your colleagues has, the fast bill, talking about repairing schools. all these things i think are something that is more immediate. but the real question i said to you in the beginning can we get this through? all of us can have the most utopian plan in the world, but given the makeup of the congress, what can we get through that will relieve the problems of the unemployed? well, first of all, i think the president is right in getting out of the washington. in order to be successful on the jobs front, heç needs to go to the places that are hurting so much, and iowa is okay. i love the people of iowa, i ve been there many times, i ve been to newton iowa, where may tag shut down and moved to mexico. closed thousands of jobs and a
the president is on the topic of jobs. that is where we need to put 80% of our focus, and it is the reason we have these deficits, because we re losing $4 trillion in this decade, because people aren t working. we ve got, oh, 12 to 25 million people out of work or working two and three part-time jobs. this is a huge drag on the economy and also our trade deficit. we re half a trillion more goods come in here from elsewhere than we re able to export. the trade deficit is a hue downdraft on growth in this country, so the president is on the right subject. i find the president sort of between home plate and first base inç terms of where he reay needs to be on jobs, and we need to incentivize job creation in our country, because all these tax benefits that have been going out for well over a decades have created jobs in china, jobs in indonesia, jobs in mexico, but not enough jobs