month in february we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. and this facility is part of the evidence of what s going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stronger. and when i come to places like this and i see the work that s being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. i know it because i would bet on american workers and american know-how any day of the week. the key now, our job now, is to keep this economic engine churning. we can t go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. we can t go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. we ve got to have an economy that s
this is a very good moment in time for the president. and people say americans want some encouragement to be able to say, hey, i want to vote for this president because i see some things going in the right direction. and i think they ve got some of that going their way now. well, we should learn more details of that compromise that you mention, david in congress to extend the payroll tax reduction for millions of americans through the end of the year. lawmakers have sign ed off on a tentative agreement. the two sides hammered out a plan last night after house republicans agreed to extend tax breaks without demanding the complete cost be offset by cuts to other programs. under the deal, unemployed workers would be entitled to fewer weeks of jobless benefits and government employees would be required to contribute more to their pensions. and on david s point, joe, i wonder about washington working together in this potentially being a sign of that, is the tea party feeding into the pres
we ve got some of the super pacs pledged to spend up to half a billion dollars to try to buy this election and what i ve said consistently is we re not going to unilaterally disarm, what we have said my strong preference would be to completely eliminate that super pac process, but we re not going to just let a whole bunch of folks who are not only self-interested but aren t always disclosing what their contributions are, to be able to simply purchase an election. we should learn the details later today of a compromise in congress to extend the payroll tax reduction for millions of americans through the end of the year. lawmakers have signed off on a tentative agreement that would save the average worker about $20 a week. the two sides hammered out a plan last after house republicans agreed to extend the tax breaks without demanding the cost be offset by cuts to other
a lot of folks are underwater on their mortgages. and even new college graduates can t really find a job, if they dorks it s not with their degree. kelly: keep in mind, the president offered a plan to deal with the fact that people are foreclosing their homes and trying to stop that especially for those who are underwater in their mortgages. having said that, to your point, angela, there are republican caveats there, and doug, the president says that the republicans should move forward or congress should move forward to make sure that they don t stop americans have having that payroll tax deduction and that they move forward keeping the economy intact. will congress move to work with him on that? well, i think that this is the story for the republicans. if they don t go along with a popular payroll tax reduction, that is off all, a republican idea, they will look intrans gent, and the president is doing something shrewd, kelly, i m not a big fan of his, but
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