the funding gets into a shutdown debate by we historically have never won. i think most our certain seasons want legitimate serious ambassadors going to foreign countries. we want good cabinet level officials. bill: what about the piece by piece strategy. border security in one bill, visas for highly skills workers in another. we passed four bills and homeland security passed another. i had a bill which provide intern security which is important. i continue to believe that is the right route to go. but bill you followed washington longer than i have. the word comprehensive people are in love with it whether it s dodd-frank. people love big bills. you get the grubers of the world when you get big bills. i would rather go step by step.
immigration laws. obviously there is a lot of flux. what do you think are the most important things we would need? as far as i m concerned there is no such thing as bad immigration. i don t want to say that anything is unimportant. immigrants get up and go. they bring innational networks. i don t want to say we can leave any part of the immigration reform out. clearly the bit again where this bipartisan agreement is the stem piece. the skills workers. there doesn t seem to be any question that they contribute massively to the economy. anybody with an advanced degree, it doesn t have to be from an american university, although there are plenty of those people. but anybody with advanced degrees in science, math, engineering, any technical field. if more of them were allowed to come to america or even the ones who are here for whatever reason
time, since before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they have heard a lot of things that didn t happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than what they thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that s what s reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. those same polls show just three out of ten people feel they are better off today than they were ten years ago. we know congress has a lower approval rating than the president. these are one national polls. there s just one national election. if the economy doesn t improve, can the president win? yes, of course, anything can happen. that question, are you better off today than you were four years ago, i bet you hear