long-term competitiveness and future? and so when folks say, well, there was some money in the faa to deal with these furloughs, well, yeah, the money is this pool of funds that are supposed to try to upgrade our airports so we don t rank in the bottom of inch dust tral hraoeuze countries when it comes to our infrastructure. we are using our seed born short term. the only reason we are doing this is because right now we have folks unwilling to make some simple changes to our tax code, for example, to close loopholes that aren t adding to our competitiveness and aren t helping middle class families. that is a long way of answering your question, but the point is that there are common-sense solutions to our problems right now. i cannot force republicans to embrace those common-sense
sequester, no problem. and then in rapid succession suddenly white house tours, this is terrible. how can we let that happen? meat inspectors, we ve got to fix that. and most recently what are we going to do about potential delays at airports? so, despite the fact that a lot of members of congress were suggesting that somehow the sequester was a victory for them and this wouldn t hurt the economy, what we now know is what i warned earlier, what jay stood up here and warned repeatedly is happening. it s slowed our growth, it s resulted in people being thrown out of work, and it s hurting folks all across the country. and the fact that congress responded to the short-term problem of flight delays by giving us the option of shifting