surprise. that s what they have attempted to do. i am still standing. i am happy to be part of this debate and i intend to keep talking about the issues that matter to the american people. the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. thank you. me, too, me too! the middle class, anderson and let me say something about the media as well. i go around the country, talk to a whole lot of people, middle class of this country is collapsing. we have 27 million people living in poverty, we have massive wealth and income inequality, our trade policies have cost us millions of decent jobs. the american people want to know whether we re going to have a democracy or an oligarchy of citizens united. enough of the e-mails. let s talk about the issues of the citizens of america.
before this president, all of the policies that go to getting wealthy people or entrepreneurs or educators or investors to invest in this country, our tax code, our trade policies, and our banking policies, i m sorry, but this president has not done the job. he only has the benefit of opponents that may not do it as well. it s easy to say it. but this president has talked the talk, but he has simply on the issue of the most significant tax, trade, and banking issues, not walked the walk. and he heads both houses. this president, the one before it, and the one before that all bought and sold by corporate america. i hate to break the news to everybody watching your show today. none of this means a thing unless you stop buying your politicians. i think he s gone farther though in having this conversation. at least a lot of the things i ve heard him talking about over the course of the last
structure that this president has put in place. i change dramatically our energy policies, our trade policies. we ve got to open up markets for american goods. we have to clamp down on china that cheats on our trade agreements. we have to get serious about the challenges we face not just play at the edges. this president has i call it a pay phone strategy for a smartphone world. he s locked in the technology and economy of the past. he s trying to stuff quarters into a pay phone that pay phone isn t connected any more. we have smartphones. we have to have an economic strategy which is modern, updated, structured for the new economy. greta: i don t mean to suggest you don t have a program that is broad based and hits different areas i m just focusing on them because we have a limited amount of time. let me ask you about the tax code. again, things don t get changed overnight. the simpson-bowles commission wanted to get rid of the 3300 earmarks as some call it.
and in this exact block. he said the deficit is sympt symptomat symptomatic. it s directly symptomatic of dysfunction in the wars, our trade policies. why are we being asked to either consider raising our taxes or cutting funding for the poorest and the weakest as opposed to correctly identifying the source of our deficit and resolving those issues? well, i don t ever like to disagree with steny hoyer as our whip and we work closely together. let me say, there are some structural problems, no question. we have to i ve always said and i continue to say that we have to have everything on the table. we have to be willing to find that compromise, that common ground, that includes making sure that we are spending where we have to, where we can reign in spending, we should. let s make sure we keep an eye on our priorities that make the
structure that this president has put in place. i change dramatically our energy policies, our trade policies. we ve got to open up markets for american goods. we have to clamp down on china that cheats on our trade agreements. we have to get serious about the challenges we face not just play at the edges. this president has i call it a pay phone strategy for a smartphone world. he s locked in the technology and economy of the past. he s trying to stuff quarters into a pay phone that pay phone isn t connected any more. we have smartphones. we have to have an economic strategy which is modern, updated, structured for the new economy. greta: i don t mean to suggest you don t have a program that is broad based and hits different areas i m just focusing on them because we have a limited amount of time. let me ask you about the tax code. again, things don t get changed overnight. the simpson-bowles commission wanted to get rid of the 3300 earmarks as some call it.