party to independent. sometimes the analysts don t get this that the base in my party wants people to tell it like it is and go out and do it. they don t need to have a litmus test that you check off every single issue on. what they want more than anything, because they ve been burned so many times before is they want candidates who will lay out what they re going to do and do it. reporter: senator ted cruz of texas, number three in the cpac straw poll is emerging as the populist candidate for the work class, telling me that the slings and arrows that he s taking from his colleagues on capitol hill are helping his potential run. the attacks from washington from democrats and republicans that have been lodged my way i think somehow that s cut through the noise and the people who are getting hammered the working men and women who are seeing their wages stagnate who are seeing their future harder and harder to achieve i think their attitude is you know what?
annemarie mccoy is a teacher making $80,000 which is a great salary. she says you know you ve not done the job well unless you re dog tired at the end of the day. who doesn t want that teacher? and gloria ross is an obituary writer. she started she wrote an obituary for her father-in-law and then her father. and then other family members started saying would you write one for me. she was in marketing and communication. she worked at the united way. and well, there s a job here. what s really amazing in people always invite her to the funeral after she writes the obituary. the other great thing you have is not just what people are making but those who are looking for work and things to market themselves, correct? exactly. one of the things we really wanted to tackle was sort of that non-seeking work class of what s going on. i ve heard from thousands of people saying i send resumes out, i don t hear. we tried to understand working with linkedin what gets people
t gop should be talking about the middle class and ways to help it. but they are not. not in the least. not seriously. for months republicans have proudly carried around their note cards that show all their jobs plans for the work class. yet a new report says those bills won t actually create jobs. that s right. one economist even says, quote, a lot of these proposals are laughable. funny. i m not laughing. well, at least they won t let taxes increase on the middle class. right? we are not going to let anybody s taxes go up at the end of the year. more taxes don t create more jobs. we are going to be focusing on making sure the taxes don t go up on anybody. you heard them. they are not going to raise taxes except well, maybe it looks like they might. right now republicans are refusing to pass a tax plan that would help 98% of americans.
decisive victory in kansas. strategic will you kli he moved away from the social, strategically moved away from the social issues? they have to look behind the numbers. 227,000 jobs, but what kind of jobs are they? are they part-time jobs? a lot of our corporate clients are saying we have downsize. there are so many folks that are underemployed. they have part-time jobs, by the way, the unemployment rate is misconception, why? because unemployment rate are the folks collecting unemployment benefits not the individuals that are unemployed. so you have 24 million which is third. entire work class that is outrageous. that is huge. it is good news that the economy is going in the right direction, however, unemployment is still unacceptably high at
has he, i don t know who the people are in trenton he can get together but certainly there are, coming out and saying, the reasons he has said that and the reasons people in new jersey who are not teachers and not public worries feel that way is because according to the new york times the average new jersey teamer makes $66,000 so when you hear that you did not, that the teachers union refused the pay freeze, people would make much less than that, say, come on, work with us, you have to give a little too. right. but when he talks about shared sacrifice, i m going to speak as an individual here. i would be more than willing to share the sacrifice if the share ed sacrifice is shared by every citizen and not just the work class and the poor. he has given millionaires a free ride by not renewing the millionaires tax. so, why would anyone want to, you know, give back? as a union, don t we have a