dakota, minnesota borders and had a big county dinner here, about 400 people. still a lot of energy and excitement here for trying to take back the country. they aren t happy with what is going on in washington on either side of the isle and looking for someone to lead them out of the wilderness a little. what do you detect rick santorum, the real issues with real americans care about most because unemployment is very high. the wage disparity is something you picked up on is getting bigger. the gap between the rich and poor in america. is it still the economy driving most people s concern? yeah, i think it is. and i talked about here tonight in a republican for legitimate reason celebrate the free market system in america and how cap lisp transformed the world and it has but we tend to talk to and really court job creators and which again, and that s a legitimate thing to do but we re not talking to job
real americans care about most because unemployment is very high. the wage disparity is something you picked up on is getting bigger. the gap between the rich and poor in america. is it still the economy driving most people s concern? yeah, i think it is. and i talked about here tonight in a republican for legitimate reason celebrate the free market system in america and how cap lisp transformed the world and it has but we tend to talk to and really court job creators and which again, and that s a legitimate thing to do but we re not talking to job holders. we re not doing things that really connect with them, and that s one of the things i talked about here tonight. unless we begin to change our policies and rhetoric to really focus on those who are feeling the pinch, who are feeling like they are sliding back, the obama economy is not serving needs and spending is not solving problems, unless we do that, we ll have problems as a party going forward.
going on in washington on either side of the isle and looking for someone to lead them out of the wilderness a little. what do you detect rick santorum, the real issues with real americans care about most because unemployment is very high. the wage disparity is something you picked up on is getting bigger. the gap between the rich and poor in america. is it still the economy driving most people s concern? yeah, i think it is. and i talked about here tonight in a republican for legitimate reason celebrate the free market system in america and how cap lisp transformed the world and it has but we tend to talk to and really court job creators and which again, and that s a legitimate thing to do but we re not talking to job holders. we re not doing things that really connect with them, and that s one of the things i talked about here tonight. unless we begin to change our policies and rhetoric to really focus on those who are feeling
right, this is not just a you re right. this is two things. this is a financial recession which is tough but it s also three decades of stagnation, job loss, and and growing wage disparity. and wage disparity. all that truth. when you say middle class, why we say it s the middle class, stupid, this is an argument about the character of the country and a very big argument about the futures. it s a very strong place to be to run a presidential election. sure is. you wrote about mitt romney in your book, if you don t want to help the middle class, confine talk about income inequality to your quiet room where you can look at pictures of each other s yachts and count how many cadillacs you re you have a way with words. he said we should talk about this in quiet rooms. my point, no, we need to scream about it from mountaintops. why point is, why isn t there a presidential commission on restoring the american middle class? why isn t there a university center, a think tank
and a half dollars over the course of their entire career because of that wage gap. what this legislation does is provide cover for them so if they do inquire, that if they do protest for having a wage disparity, they ve got coverage. frankly, i don t understand why i mean, i understand that there s legal costs involved but corporations should be glad and should be quite honest about what people are making. this is about kind of pulling the curtain back, about who is getting paid what and it s not fair. wouldn t this all be fixed if corporations just paid men and women equally if they were doing exactly the same job and the same hours put in? yeah, i would say that most of them are. you know, i think we re trying to build out a problem here that doesn t exist, as widespread as everybody wants it to believe now. oh, wow, i m sorry, i have to say, it does exist. you look at latino women, they re making $0.52 to the dollar. african-american women, $0.61 to the dollar and the avera