go to that site and donate re resources you might have. some folks have already stepped up, john hancock, larry lacino. the whole business community is coming together and the boston foundation. they re all there willing to help. that s how boston s coming together like it s never come before. we re all here because this tragedy is not going to stop boston. we are boston. we are one community and we will not let terror take us over. thank you very much, mr. mayor. thanks to all of the donors, the inaugural donors, if you will, for the onefund boston and those who will contribute. in the nature of contributions, lieutenant governor and i visited a couple of hospitals this afternoon as well, and one of the things that we had an opportunity to do is thank the extraordinary medical teams who have responded to the needs of people who were hurt. one of the things we learned is that there is a need for blood
that year, america began to gain jobs. a painfully slow, but steady job recovery has now taken hold for the last 18 months. and here is the key, if you want to bring it back to politics. if the economy adds just over 100,000 jobs per month between now and the election, america will have gained back every single job lost during the obama presidency. north zuckerman is the editor in chief of u.s. news & world report. he s also an extremely wealthy and successful democratic businessman. and he wrote this week, president obama s economic programs have failed. mort, the economy is on pace, as you saw, to get back every job lost under president obama, about a recession that he didn t start. why? why are you saying it s failed? let me put it this way. in the first place, those numbers are slightly misleading. we need 125,000 to 150,000 jobs every month just to take into account the new people coming into the labor force. absolutely, but that s not the criticism. i haven t fi
year america began to gain jobs, a painfully slow but steady job recovery has taken hold for the last 18 months. here is the key if you want to bring it back to politics. if the economy adds just over 100,000 jobs per month between now and the election, america will have gained back every single job lost during the obama presidency. mort zuckerman head of u.s. news and world report. he s also an extremely wealthy and successful democratic businessman and he wrote this week president obama s economic programs have failed. mort, the economy is on pace, as you saw, to get back every job lost under president obama about a recession he didn t start. why? why are you saying it s failed? let me put it this way. in the first place those numbers are slightly misleading, we need 125 to 150,000 jobs to take into account. i m not finished. not debating, just facts. compare this to any previous recession, 1970s, 1980s at this point the economy was growing between 6 and 8%. the largest
flourishing not on the basis of what the government is doing but on the basis of what business is doing. their bottom line is doing better than the top line. the rev knew line is not increasing as much as they ve been able to cut costs. the problem is when they cut costs they cut people. we have a huge level of unemployment. they outsource jobs to other countries. of course, there is some outsourcing. some. i m not going to have an argument with you over every word i use. what business has done is to cut costs. some of it is outsourcing. they ve been outsourcing for decades. we have seen the effects of it is they ve cut personnel because they were worried what was going to happen to their businesses. their top line which is the revenue line has not grown nearly as much. that s the one that protects in a sense a lot of the employees they ve had. they ve been forced to do that. yes, they have done well and wall street has done well but wall street isn t the whole business communi
zuckerman said on the sunday show circuit when asked if president obama is anti-business. the president clearly is. i mean, you can take excesses and tar the whole business community which is like taking election fraud and saying that s why we shouldn t have free elections. he caricatures them. they blamed everything on the business world. frankly, i don t think that s accurate but more than that, it s counterproductive. well, trying to hang the lack of business confidence on the president i think is unfair. big business is holding their money hostage hoping the obama administration will give them carte blanche the way the bush administration did. president obama has been crystal clear from day one that we are not going to go back to the bubble economy built on monopoly money that caused this crash in the first place. mort zuckerman, publisher of us news and world report and the new york daily news joins me