entry-level worker, as matt articulated so well, dylan, and with we have to help that older worker and everybody in between, and the number s about 30 million. do you think that it is clear, matt, to your constituents, that the people exist and the problems exist, and the money exists! and the only thing that s missing is a set of gating in policies, an orchestra of policies around energy independence, around infrastructure, around improved health, and that the failure to create those gates and drive that money is a direct function of the political dysfunction? do you think people are starting to understand that? yeah. in fact, some of the people who are occupying wall street right now are saying, we need socialism for start-ups, not for big banks. big banks have no competition. we have start-up monopolies. but start-ups are fighting to make it off the ground every day, they re doing well. and our buy young initiative buys these entrepreneurs all the
time. we want to see where are the government-backed protections for us. where is the free health care for us? where is the state-backed, you know, insurer that we have that can take risk for our start-up and have it backed by the taxpayer like banks do. that s what the young people are curious about every day. or at the very least, that platinum citizenship right before our eyes. i m thrilled about the opportunity to work with the two of you not just today, but in the months to come as we launch into this 30 million jobs campaign as a group and really try to drive people to understand each of those major ecosystems that can create these jobs from infrastructure to energy. congratulations, yesman, on where you are and i m excited to go where we re going. leo hindery and matt siegel, check them out in iowa tomorrow. again, jobs first, 2012. coming up here on hardball, chris digging into the day in politics. mitt romney s attack on newt has become, and it s on two fronts, professio
adults in washington to do. and the big barrier, leo, is not a lack of people to do the things that matt was describing, and it s obviously not a matter of problems to solve. there s an abundance. and for that matter, it s not even a lack of capital. there s a flow of capital on the planet and in this country that could easily be moving in the directions that matt was describing, but reversing those capital flows in tax policy, in trade policies with china, with our banking policies is directly disruptive to the special interests that fund our politicians. and i just don t see how you can get money flowing into america using tax, trade, and bank policy to create these jobs when those very same interests are the ones that are paying our congress not to do it. you know, dylan, as i sit here and listen to you, and earlier, just a moment ago, to matt, there is not a shortage of women and men that need our attention, whether they be young or older workers. the numbers are catastrophic,
there s not a shortage of capital. we know how to do this in a way that is not budget busting. we need tax reform to help it happen, for sure. we need trade policy reform to also help it happen. what we don t seem to have is political will. and when you had senator tom coburn, a conservative republican from oklahoma on your show earlier, that wonderful balance that the senator spoke about, which is what we re trying to impress as well, this cannot be any longer a partisan issue. it s an american political issue for republicans and democrats alike, and what matt and his colleagues tomorrow, and i ll try to help as well, we re going to start by exciting tomorrow some of the younger workers who are feeling the pinch like their older friends and grandparents, as matt described. but it s sort of a womb-to-tomb process right now, that we have to go through as a nation. we have to help the young
exactly how many jobs we need and how you need to talk about solving it. much more on that to come. but right now, two of our friends have started their own initiative to tackle unemployment at scale, and they are taking it straight to the caucusgoers at the jobs first 2012 roundtable in iowa tomorrow. we re here with the founder of jobs first 2012 and cochair of the task force on jobs creation, leo hindery and matt siegel, cofounder of our time. leo, you brought this to our attention years ago. if you don t address the scale of the problem, you can t solve the problem. how are you framing this in the context of your trip to iowa? well, dylan, you framed it for matt and myself and your listeners pretty well with your lead. it s a 30 million women and men problem, dylan. and when you say that the government acknowledges the the problem, sadly, they don t. if this entire congress that s