it should really be a year round jobs program. look, when we put people to work, it s a hedge against crime. when we put people to work, it stimules the economy. i think that this year there ought to be a focus on jobs but a special focus on those communities where the unemployment rates are indeed the highest. so we would encourage people to follow us, the national urban league, our 12-point jobs plan. we look forward to working with president obama and his new economic team as well as with members of congress. we need a focus on jobs this year. job creation, job growth, job training, job placement. and the urban league is ready to work on this. i want to get your reaction to conference call that jim claiborne had today with reporters. he is calling for a ten 2030 program that 10% of the recovery money be spent in communities with a 20% that have had a 20%
bigger and say a trillion dollars, wouldn t this problem be worse in terms of how slow the money is getting out of the door and geting to projects it needed to be? my fundmental complaint about the recovery money is it doesn t think. where is the next hoover or golden gate and put the united states in the lead of the pack in the 21st century when it come to infrastructure and our airport and rail system and bridges. i think that is something everyone is unhappy about no matter the political persuasion . we have seen repaving and repaint low hanging fruit and a number of projects that are taking a while to get going. i don t see the inspiration for americans here. i do think that across the political spectrum there is a lot of support for improving your bridges and roads and
to lay out their plans. people need to take it seriously. he has already said they would repeal the wall street reform. a lot of lobbyists spent time and money drying to defeat that and john boehner saying we ll put wall street back in charge, who cares what happens to main street. he has said there would be no new regulations even after what we saw in the gulf, after the miners accident after all of that, and in ohio the other day, he said that part of their plan for the economy was actually going to be to cancel about 60,000 contracts and awards some of the contracts that are being let with recovery money that has not yet gone out the door. that in itself will snuff out the beginnings of the recovery, the fragile recovery and in the long-term as you pointed out, what s their plan? they want to add well, it s worse than nothing. they want to add $680 billion to the deficit and give the top 2%
connection and that they are profiting from this loan it is really their job to bring home money for their constituents. martha: one thing i thought was interesting a. b. is where the money goes. you can t send any money to the casinos themselves. it has to go towards to revitalize communities. it s going to a community center and a tribal government building, which in the long term it will create jobs to actually build those two facilities but those will turn into government jobs. this isn t stimulating anything in the private sector as far as i can tell, long term. that s true. but you know so much much the recovery money has helped stabilize the public sector job market. and that s one of the complaints about it. i mean those jobs aren t permanent, and they are not really essential to a long-term process for recovery. if you look at the case of the mohegan tribe they have about the same amount of profit, 54, $57 million that they are
square and deliver a bomb there. if you were to create a list, a fantasyland list for a place like new york, what would we have notice city that we don t have right now? the congressman mentioned an important piece, the communications, the intraoperability. we don t have that right now? fits and starts. new york city has done a great job. but it s always about new technology. but also about being able to talk to the right people at the right time, with the right information. that s training. that s intelligence. one of the things that the congressman acknowledges and has been frankly in the forefront of is the intelligence effort here domestically. how do we get the information from around the world to the people who need it, real-time, right now. that takes training. that takes all of the agencies working together. but when you get to actual expenditure of money, it talks about sustaining your effort. and that becomes so difficult when you face all the deficits you have. ray kel