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more on the jobs tour at the first of the year. but i want to begin today on the subject of what we re doing and what we can do now to fix america and have compassion for ourselves and for our country as we go through this transition. we begin with nbc news special correspondent, tom brokaw. a man who s been traveling the nation and has written a book about it. the time of our lives, a conversation about america, about who we ve been, and where we need to go now to recapture the american dream. top, thanks for being with us. i want to read everybody an excerpt from your book. you write the following. you say, shouldn t we take a realistic inventory of our strengths, needs, objectives and challenges as we head into a new century in a changed world? none of us has all the answers, but so many of the problems are self-evident, that we should begin by first addressing those that threaten our core values? i read that and thought to myself, what is going on with
thank you, richard. the show begins right now. well, good thursday afternoon to you. i am dylan ratigan and as 2011 winds down and we all look together to 2012, americans from across the political spectrum, right, left, center, us here at the d.r. show, all of us talking about trying to fix our structural problems that are preventing real investment, innovation, and obviously job creation in this country. that is our big story this country or this day, i should say. remaking our country. it s why early next year, we re hitting the road again on a 30 million jobs tour. that is correct. we are in need of 30 million jobs to dig ourselves out of the hole we re in. fortunately, we have a lot to do, which would make you create we could create a lot of jobs. we need to get rid of some of the trade, tax, and banking laws which were strangling us, but the influence of the bought political structure that preserves so much of the status quo prevents us from getting the debate on health care
through, reverend al. i mean, things are rarely simple in politics, but this kind of is, you know. the president had a very tough summer. he fought very hard for a compromise on the debt ceiling deal. he didn t get it, and his poll numbers suffered for that. he turned around. he began fighting back. he launched his job bill. he took a jobs tour. he gave a great jobs speech. he came out. he broke that bill up into pieces so that we had a part that would have gone for first responders to keep cops and fire fighters and teachers on the job. he became he broke it down very well. he he gave speeches and sound bites like you just played, and he really cast himself as a defender of the middle and working classes, even though he s not getting any cooperation from republicans. that has seemed to work. and i think there are a couple of numbers that are really significant. his standing with seniors has climbed. yeah. which is important, and his standing with the white men without a colleg