votes in key states like ohio, that lost manufacturing jobs, the campaign rhetoric worries the rising number of americans who owe the job with open trade. to have rhetoric talking about china is bad. in the long term it could hurt the relationship. chinese new year is the second largest selling season. only after the holidays here in the u.s. candy maker in tacoma, washington, earns half the money overseas. they need $620 million in new planes. 40% of the jobs in washington state are tied to international trade. with china the largest customer. union leaders say despite the improved export the american worker is being harmed. the outsourcing issue is
countries, in companies that are building surveillance equipment for china to spy on its own folks. that s governor, you are the last person to get tough on china. zachary, there was a combo there. the auto industry, obviously, jobs key to ohio, a lot of parts there and going back to the outsoou outsourcing from the president? yeah. much higher than the current minimum wage standards to compete with the outsourcing issue, it s a wage issue. unfortunately, even though they talked about bringing manufacturing back to the u.s., a lot of manufacturing pays $13 an hour without benefits instead of $30 an hour with benefits which it did before 2008, before the whole bankruptcy of the auto industry and that s another. but if you talk about bringing manufacturing jobs back, the only place to look to as an example is germany and then you have you limit executive compensation, bonuses. you create a floor of insurance, health care, social security.
entrepreneur and builder in america. i have been critical of many of the ads and that is one of the best ads you have shown on the show since the beginning of the campaign. sean: why? the man who is working with his hands says to the president stop demonizing us. and the reason why it is so powerful that unites employer and employee. unites white collar and blue collar. middle class and working class. people in america i hope i can say this feel like they are busting their ass now and sending more money to washington that ends up getting sent to china and europe. the stimulus makes people angry. that is the first ad that a worker a hard working american says enough is enough. sean: that is what you said about bain and to go to people whose jobs were saved. one other thing on the outsourcing issue which fundamentally was the whole point of the bain attack and class warfare aspect of it was
entrepreneur and builder in america. i have been critical of many of the ads and that is one of the best ads you have shown on the show since the beginning of the campaign. sean: why? the man who is working with his hands says to the president stop demonizing us. and the reason why it is so powerful that unites employer and employee. unites white collar and blue collar. middle class and working class. people in america i hope i can say this feel like they are busting their ass now and sending more money to washington that ends up getting sent to china and europe. the stimulus makes people angry. that is the first ad that a worker a hard working american says enough is enough. sean: that is what you said about bain and to go to people whose jobs were saved. one other thing on the outsourcing issue which fundamentally was the whole point of the bain attack and class warfare aspect of it was
we re back now with our political roundtable. joining me the associate editor of the washington post, bob woodward. republican strategist and columnist for time magazine, mike murphy. democratic strategist hilary rosen. president of americans for tax reform, grover norquist. and president and ceo of the naacp, ben jealous. welcome to all of you. so much to discuss. but let s talk about the battle over bain, that s become the issue, and mike murphy and hilary rosen, here are the dueling ads. this is what the obama team put out first on this outsourcing issue, and then how romney responded. we ll play a little bit of each. running for governor, mitt romney campaigned as a job creator. i know how jobs are created. but as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to china and mexico.