every trade agreement that s come down the pike and yet you have workers that are being exploited all over the world. it takes years before their concerns are being heard. i think the first point to make about this trade agreement is to look at whose side multi-national corporations are on on this. how do the drug companies feel about this. how does wall street feel about it? all of the multi-nationals believe this is a great agreement. just the other day, i and a few of us spoke before the thousand steel workers on this issue. so you ve got working people on one side. corporate america on the other side. second of all, if you look at the history of trade agreements there is a reason why we have lost 60,000 factories in this country since 2001 and millions of decent paying jobs.
continue to live at at least some level of decency. turning to the tpp, the trans-pacific partnership, the fact that they i think this is kind of a victory for your team in that it did not get fast tracked in 2013. definitely a victory. the ministers have kicked the can. we need to keep kicking it and kicking it and kicking it because there s nothing in it for working americans and frankly for working people around the world. as you ve said so well, it s all about the multi-nationals. we act as if it s only about exports. and i m not sure we do a good job on that. korea only two years old, we now doubled the trade deficit with korea in just two years since that deal was done. so it s about time we looked at america s working families, what works for us. in some memos that have been leaked clearly show the pharmaceuticals have been heavily involved in this and
the horse race is neck and neck, and i think that there are lots of rationalizations from both republicans and democrats as to why that is the case. but the fact is that this is not a republican nominee to this point who s made the case for the american citizen and consumer and worker as to why he or she should support a man who seems right now, i swear to you, it seems at times he wants to be the agent of u.s. multi-nationals. if you re going to be an agent of business, be the agent of small business in this country because that s where jobs are created. u.s. multi-nationals come down just about at neutral when it comes to the interests of a working man and woman. megyn: what does that mean? i don t understand your point. the u.s. multi-nationals have a diverse international, global megyn: you re talking about companies that have a base overseas as well as locally? any one of these major multinationals. megyn: and you re suggesting mitt romney is speaking more to
but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don t. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i have spent the last few months blaming congress for things, but it s not congress who is going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise. it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire presidency. i
tax rate. we have to stop punitive of american multi-nationals so they leave all this trillions of dollar overseas. these things are not difficult conceptually. there s a lot of professor, i think at the bottom line what we really need is growth. is it a consensus on the budget? what s the top thing that needs to happen in order to promote kbroet? i think probably the top thing to promote growth right now would be to achieve some kind of a budget compromise. predictability. that there would be some previous districtability. the american people would not think we re not going bankrupt, we wouldn t have a biz an teen example be, a we would have done something important.