maybe in good times i don t want to hear from you, but i do want to hear from you in bad times because you do have something of the understanding of the role of public policy. you don t just sit back and be herbert hoover again. we tried doing nothing. we tried balancing the budget. we tried cutting spending. even roosevelt talked that up in 32 as you know it. it didn t work. it landed up with 25% unemployment and horrific economic situation if it weren t for world war ii. so talk. what should we do? well, first thought, you were right a moment ago when you said we don t hear very much about poverty in america, and you know why that is, chris? it s because many poor people don t vote, you know that, and poor people certainly don t make a whole lot in campaign contributions so we kind of push them aside except when we can use them as a political football for the right wing to blame owl of the problems in the world on poor people. the reality is, we had a hearing on this yesterday. no
to hear from you, but i do want to hear from you in bad times because you do have something of the understanding of the role of public policy. you don t just sit back and be herbert hoover again. we tried doing nothing. we tried balancing the budget. we tried cutting spending. even roosevelt talked that up in 32 as you know it. didn t work. it landed up with 25% unemployment and horrific economic situation if it weren t for world war ii. so talk. what should we do? well, first thought, you were right a moment ago when you said we don t hear very much about poverty in america, and you know why that is, chris? it s because many poor people don t vote, you know that, and poor people certainly don t make a whole lot in campaign contributions so we kind of push them aside except when we can use them as a political football for the right wing to blame owl of the problems in the world on poor people. the reality is, we had a hearing on this yesterday. not only is poverty in america growing
than carter was. carter was at a 30% approval rating in the gallup poll at this point and obama is in the low 40s. this is the point when the presidents who win re-election begin to really build their numbers. this is when reagan was coming up, when clinton was coming up, soon they would be over 50%. in pretty good economies. president obama faces a situation where he needs to improve his numbers, even though the economy s numbers we know won t get very much better by election day. this is about the economy. yeah. he is likely to have on election day. that s the thing that s doing it, chris. it s not about the poll numbers. it s about the reality numbers. it s about the unemployment number and the median household income number. it s about the poverty rate number that you were just talking about. it s even you know, even the college board came out yesterday to say that the reading scores were lower than they have ever been. what do you make of that? everybody here is a parent
the understanding of the role of public policy. you don t just sit back and be herbert hoover again. we tried doing nothing. we tried balancing the budget. we tried cutting spending. even roosevelt talked that up in 32 as you know it. it didn t work. it landed up with 25% unemployment and horrific economic situation if it weren t for world war ii. so talk. what should we do? well, first thought, you were right a moment ago when you said we don t hear very much about poverty in america, and you know why that is, chris? it s because many poor people don t vote, you know that, and poor people certainly don t make a whole lot in campaign contributions so we kind of push them aside except when we can use them as a political football for the right wing to blame owl of the problems in the world on poor people. the reality is, we had a hearing on this yesterday. not only is poverty in america growing because the middle class is collapsing and more and more people are ending up poor, but pov
carter was at a 30% approval rating in the gallup poll at this point and obama is in the low 40s. this is the point when the presidents who win re-election begin to real build their numbers. this is when reagan was coming up, when clinton was coming up, soon they would be over 50%. in pretty good economies. president obama faces a situation where he needs to improve his numbers, even though the economy s numbers we know won t get very much better by election day. this is about the economy. yeah. he is likely to have on election day. that s the thing that s doing, it chris. it s not about the poll numbers. it s about the reality numbers. it s about the unemployment number and the median household income number. it s about the poverty rate number that you were just talking about. it s even you know, even the college board came out yesterday to say that the reading scores were lower than they have ever been. what do you make of that? everybody here is a parent or a student watch