now, the issues in their 2014 agenda for the president has been immigration reform, gun safety, voting reform, minimum wage, and climate change. where is the focus going to be on these issues and can he get them passed? again, minimum wage reform is so important. we re talking about getting the country growing. the president s been saying for a long time he wants to grow the country from the middle class out. this is not a trickle down economy anymore. we know that policy doesn t work. we ve got to get money in the hands of real people who are going to go out and spend that money and then that will help kick start the economy. that s what s going to have to work. we also know that we re going to have to get latinos involved, women involved, african-americans more involved. and the republicans are on the wrong side with all of those groups. jamal simmons, thanks for your time tonight. thank you, rev. coming up, i cannot even stand to look at you.
of consumer. what about that argument? you know, chris, we did hear that point from president bush for eight years. we did hear that and during his eight-year term, we lost 500,000 private sector jobs. president bush and mitt romney are exponents of a theory called trickle-down economy. if you give huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, they re going to reinvest in america and we re going to live happily ever. we saw that movie during the bush years, it failed. when bush left office, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. we were on the verge of an international financial collapse. it just so happens that theory doesn t work for ordinary