damn about middle class jobs. the democrats, of course, are not in power. if they were, i m confident they d do something about it. the democrats have been jet streaming about make it in america for years. they get no help from the republicans. the republicans want the free market to take over. do you want your kids school bus going across that newly-reconstructed bridge with china steel or american steel? do you even care? do you even care about american jobs? we have some real fundamental issues in this country that need to be addressed. we could talk about investment. but what we need to talk about, really, is trade agreements that are getting our entire economy and it s going to get to every sector of the economy. this steel that s coming into the united states is going to end up in the energy sector in a big, big way. this steel that s coming in will end up going through solar and going through wind power in a
not going to double in two weeks. it s not as if the nation s infrastructure is collapsing. but speaker boehner allows a whole day and a vote on something that will never become law. i just don t understand who the people in the house behind you think they re serving. well, you know, the reality is that the american public has spoken pretty forward on these issues. you know, stay out of our bedrooms. get out of the way. get people back to work. and so we have been working very hard on make it in america and an agenda that would allow jobs to be created on investing in our infrastructure, on putting people back to work and the reality is that, none of the bills that have passed so far in the house of representatives in this congress, i think there s 13 or 14 of them had anything to do with jobs. and that s really sad when the republicans control the floor. congratulations to speaker boehner on that. let s go back to immigration. it s a problem for the gop. that not even the talented
thoughtful analysis, brett, thank you. joining us tonight, james hoffa, president for the teamsters, we have a lot of conversation in america about jobs, about make it in america, about buy american. here we have a republican governor from the great state of texas. vetoing a buy american bill. how do we figure it out. it s incredible. this country is being inundated and flooded with foreign steal, foreign iron, foreign products. and that s why we have so much unemployment in this country? what better to have a bill that says buy american, what s wrong with having american steal? american iron, american things that go into what makes a texas strong or makes our country strong. and it s incredible that he would veto such a bill. i m encouraged because the numbers were so overwhelmingly hopefully they can come back and
my fellow delegates, president obama has spent the last four years seeking the solutions we need to meet our challenges. he has spent his first term focused on building a strong economy and growing the middle class. thanks to his leadership, america s auto workers are back on the job. [cheers and applause] and manufacturers are hiring at levels not seen since the 1990s. but we all know that we need to do more that s why president obama wants to revitalize the manufacturing sector that made our nation great. house democrats share that vision, which is why we have a plan called make it in america. [cheers and applause]
neil ferguson, kishor and wada. also, how in the world did one of the world s greatest sellers in the global bazaar lose its mojo? i ll explain. first, here s my take. president obama spoke forcefully in his state of the union about the importance of reviving manufacturing in america. if you talk with economists, they ll tell you it s a very complex problem involving tacks, trade, regulatory policy, exchange rates, educational skills. it is all those things, but when you move from high level policy to specific cases, you will often find within element that is rarely talked about. a government s role in boosting its domestic manufacturers. in a front page story last week, the new york times detailed how apple s iphone ended up being made outside america. the times wrote about the apple executives who visited a factory in china to see if it could cut the glass precisely for the phone s touchdown screen. when the apple team got there, the factory owners were already construc