they want it banned in all government job interviews. i guess they figure if you ve done the time, why waste the time asking if you did? an attorney says employers have a right to know. even fellow attorney says they have no right to know. why don t we have to know, deb? well, this is only in public sector jobs, and it s not for all jobs. but let me give you an example of clients that i represent. they re from low-income neighborhoods that are very violent. they join gangs to protect themselves because they basically have no choice. then they end up with a criminal record. and the rest of their future is pretty much ruined because they can t get a job. but they served their time. they ve served their time. keyshia, what do you make of that? that s an unfair scarlet letter. i totally agree. i came from a low-income neighborhood, i didn t join a
when they executed this strategy, what did they do? they damaged the country. do you call that economic patriotism? i don t. this is what a job growth has looked like over the past three years. now take a look at what happens when we see these split between the private sector jobs and the public sector jobs. it s pretty obvious. the losses in the public sector, what were they? a drag on job growth. we lost nearly 700,000 public sector jobs since 2009. most of them, sadly, are teachers. now if you look at the major sectors of our economy right now, hell, there s growth all over the place in all areas except one. construction jobs. now think about this. if the american jobs act was considered by republicans they would have added nearly 2 million construction jobs. where would the unemployment report be now? the september jobs report, my friends, it is not a conspiracy.
barack obama a one-term president. when they executed this strategy, what did they do? they damaged the country. do you call that economic patriotism? i don t. this is what a job growth has looked like over the past three years. now take a look at what happens when we see these split between the private sector jobs and the public sector jobs. it s pretty obvious. the losses in the public sector, what were they? a drag on job growth. we lost nearly 700,000 public sector jobs since 2009. most of them, sadly, are teachers. now if you look at the major sectors of our economy right now, hell, there s growth all over the place in all areas except one. construction jobs. now think about this. if the american jobs act was considered by republicans they would have added nearly 2 million construction jobs. where would the unemployment report be now? the september jobs report, my
country. 29 consecutive months of increasing private sector jobs. by the way, all over this country we ve been decreasing public sector jobs. in montana public sector jobs are down by 4.2%, and we re at 6.5% unemployment. so we ve created 4.5 million new jobs, private sector, decreased the public sector jobs, and montana s on the mend and so is the rest of the country. jenna: you also say you cut more taxes for montana s residents than in previous, than any other time in state history. and seven consecutive years of the largest budget surplus. jenna: well, i asked that because that seems more like something we heard from the republican convention than we re hearing from the democrats. i have to take a quick break, and i ll bring you right back to respond to that, governor. we ll be right back with more happening now . all right, thank you. ter sto] [ male announcer ] when your favorite foods fight you, fight back fast with tums smoothies. so fast and smooth, you ll forget you had
unlike the federal government don t have sovereign currency, they can t have large deficits, so the federal government needs to run a deficit to get people employed. it s a great recession. gives big chunk of money to the states and localities, they don t have to fire all the teachers, the police officers, everyone else who services are needed. we don t have that war on women, the republican meem about how women are losing their jobs. why? because women are disproportionately in the governmental sector. we ve lost 600,000 public-sector jobs. so the unemployment rate would be much lower there would be much less grief in the nation. the economic recovery would have been far faster. all due to the blue dog democrats, the conservatives, and the republicans ganging up. you wrote about this, karl, you have a study about this. and killing the bill. but the terrible political thing is obama let it die without a fight. and if he had dug in his heels and say, this is going to