this week in your column saying 9/11 did not change everything. in fact, why don t you tell us what you meant? what i meant by that is it did not change our partisanship. it did not change our political polarization. that returned shortly after 9/11. george w. bush spent seven years in direct opposition by the democrats and indeed the media. he was often mocked, and i think that polarization has done a lot of damage to things we needed on that day, which was national security. i mean, today, paul, there s sort of a sense that there s a sourness in the political life of the country out there, that people want to come home, that they are exhausted about our foreign commitments, but do the taliban carrying weapons around kabul look exhausted? do the communist chinese look exhausted? these things are a function of national political leadership. it is their job to protect the
it was reported that you had a greater chance of being audited if you made $40,000 than if you made $40 million a year because they decided to go after the cheaters of the earned income tax credit. that s where the republican party is these days with the very wealthy, the very powerful and the right wing that doesn t want to see the government help the people at all. so, the job. make it easier for middle class americans to stay in the middle class and build ladders into the middle class for hard working people. let me just say something about this. this is my gut. for the last 20 years there s been a sourness in the land. america the american character has always been for centuries a bright, sunny, optimistic character. the american dream, very simple. it s says the average american would say means if i work hard, i ll be doing better ten years
people s pockets, shots in people s arms and save small businesses and our economy. now we re going from rescue to recovery, to make the economy, to make the american people s lives even better than it was before covid because there were so many structural problems in our economy and there became a sourness in the land that we very much want to remove. the two-track strategy which i outlined earlier this year is moving full steam ahead. when i first said we were going to pass fwogt bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget resolution before we broke for the august recess, many said it was an impossible task, but democrats in the senate are determined, fiercely determined, to move president biden s build back better agenda
from now than today, and my kids will be doing better than me. that faded. it created a sourness in the land and, in my judgment, it elected a man with such awful values and someone as divisive as donald trump. the mission is to not allow that to happen again. the way to do that is restore the american dream and give middle class americans, poor americans hope for the future. they don t expect us to snap our fingers and get it all done at once. they sure expect us to give them some hope and some progress. that s what we re trying to do with both bills, with both bills. let me say, what we re doing isn t easy. we ve labored for months and months to reach this point. we have no illusion. maybe the hardest work is yet to come. we re united in a desire to et g it done. so far, so good. and i think my entire caucus can
under trump, it was reported that you had a greater chance of being audited if made $40,000 rather than $40 million. but that s where the republican party is these days with the wealthy, the powerful, and the right wing that doesn t want to see government help people at all. so the job, make is easier to stay in the middle class and build ladders into the middle class for hard working people. and let me just say something about this, this is my gut. for the last 20 years there has been a sourness. the american character has been for centuries a bright sunny character. the dream says it means if i work hard i will be doing better in ten years from now than i am