expected. i knew we had it within our ranks to do it ourself. that s why we put together pontchartrain park community redevelopment corporation. housing is one thing, then i decided to also do food. let me ask you about the comprehensive piece. what we re seeing here, the spirit of the people of new orleans is is the best thing, and yet i think you and i would both say we see these amazing nonprofits, these incredible entrepreneurs, people just doing work on the ground for six years. also often running smack into government another the local, state and federal level. how do we scale the spirit of people to something so that food desert your grocery store could be an amazing thing, but how do we make sure there s grocery stores in every corner. when i decided to create the food store and put them in the food deserts, where people don t have access to rich greens. the one thing i learned doing pontchartrain park, the interface of government can be tough.
several republican presidential candidates, as well as the republican leadership on capitol hill, are proposing that we raise taxes on the poor and working class while cutting taxes on corporations and rich people all in the name of job creation. jon huntsman said today that as president he d want to focus on long-term job growth by creating a simpler tax system. simplify it by eliminating the taxes people pay on investment income altogether by reducing taxes corporations have to pay and shuffling all individuals into only three tax brackets, 8, 14, or 23%, which means if you re rich, under this plan you re likely to get richer. simplicity, it seems, is more important than fairness. and if you re a corporation that makes things, you do better under rick santorum s job plan which calls for zero, zip, nada. eliminate the corporate tax if you manufacture here in this country. that will bring a lot of those
who you are, where you ve been. where you hope to go. that s the forum of art. we reflect on where we are. that s something we grew up with in pontchartrain park. we were given a baton from that moses legacy where african-americans didn t have the access to affordable homes during segregation. because of their march for social justice, we were able to create a mayberry that was able to send so many of my generation out into the world and become successful men and women. when i came back to new orleans, i knew i wanted to create that. it was our responsibility to create that. to those much is given, much is expected. i knew we had it within our ranks to do it ourself. that s why we put together pontchartrain park community
what do we need? we need people to get back to work. this is not rocket science. whether it s a giant corporation or the small business on the corner, if customers are coming through the door, i guarantee you they ll start restocking their shelves and selling into domestic markets, they ll start hiring people once again. that s why the president s jobs plan is so important because it s geared at getting people back to work. remember, this is a 70% consumption economy, and if people are not working and if their paychecks aren t growing, the economy is stuck in the mud and that s where we are. it s also why your conversation with gene robinson was not exactly the most uplifting in terms of hope of where this is heading. indeed, i think you have now giving me the back of the t-shirt. front will say corporate profitability will not create jobs and the back will say growing gdp does.
several republican presidential candidates, as well as the republican leadership on capitol hill, are proposing that we raise taxes on the poor and working class while cutting taxes on corporations and rich people all in the name of job creation. jon huntsman said today that as president he d want to focus on long-term job growth by creating a simpler tax system. simplify it by eliminating the taxes people pay on investment income altogether by reducing taxes corporations have to pay and shuffling all individuals into only three tax brackets, 8, 14, or 23%, which means if you re rich, under this plan you re likely to get richer. simplicity, it seems, is more important than fairness. and if you re a corporation that makes things, you do better under rick santorum s job plan which calls for zero, zip, nada.