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President obama this week in the state of the union as he has in previous months made again references not fact there is a small group of people that have done well and doing better than the vast numbers who aren t doing so well. listen to a clip clip from a couple of the speeches and talk about then after that the president s approach. we are not going to settle for a country for a shrinking number of people do really well and a growing number of americans barely get by. if asking a billionaire to pay the same rate as plumber or a teacher makes me a warrior for the middle class i wear that charge as a badge of honor. only class war fare i have seen is the battle waged against middle class folks in the country for a decade now. mike: senator, your own story has been one that always inspired me and everyone who hears it. you have come from a working class back ground and family and risen through the ranks to become a united states senator. i want to ask you from your perspective whe ....
The middle class i wear that charge as a badge of honor. only class war fare i have seen is the battle waged against middle class folks in the country for a decade now. mike: senator, your own story has been one that always inspired me and everyone who hears it. you have come from a working class back ground and family and risen through the ranks to become a united states senator. i want to ask you from your perspective when you hear talk like this are you inspired by the president? are you offended that he tends to want to separate people in the middle class from people who have moved beyond and succeeded? most presidents at this stage would be bragging about the accomplishments and telling people give them four more years because what they have done the last four years. he is not going to be able to do that this president and he has no excuses. he failed on every account and had the control of congress two of the first three years in washington, d.c. he has to do something else. ....
Bit, you know, the former speaker has been hatchering the president hard, as you know, calling him the most effective food stamp president in the country. he thought last night s speech was full of beautiful rhetoric, but off in terms of reality. i think last night we saw this debate will be framed on the tax reform issue. the newt gingrich, the mitt romney campaigns are both saying in some ways this is class war fare that the most financialfully successful people are at a disadvantage, so what mitt romney and to a greater degree newt gingrich is saying is let s get rid of the capital gains tax all together, lower the corporate tax rate to 12.5%, so that s going to be the issue on that front. immigration is going to be keep here obviously in florida. it s not just border control. newt expected to talk about all those people who are here in ....
Know, they are going to start the attacks of this is class warfa warfare, this is divisive. how does the president connect tonight to the american public what this is really all about in terms of fairness? this is not anti-rich that we don t like people that are successful. this is about fairness. i don t have anything against rich people they make money they make money what is the class war fair is the attack on wall street, main street cleveland, main street dayton, that has been the class warfare, that a small number of people have don t richer and rich, while more people s homes are foreclosed on, more auto workers lost their jobs, more shop keepers and hardware store dealers lost their jobs because of what wall street did to this country. all we are doing is pointing out the class war fare that they committed and i think the public totally get s ths that the publ ....
Hears talk about class warfare from newt gingrich and mitt romney talk about his wealth, that is why the country is figuring all of them out, we want a fairer tax system that puts money in the pockets of middle class, build manufacturer, seen two years, nine quarters in a row of manufacturing job growth in this country, after 12 years of decline and that is, again, what elizabeth is here tonight to show. you referred to elizabeth, let me bring her in accompanied by elizabeth williams, a general motors worker from lordstown, ohio, and she will be your guest tonight. she is. correct. now, elizabeth, let me ask you, do you and your fellow workers at the gm plant credit the president with keeping your job in that industry going? yes, very much so. so, when you are faced with those who wonder what this president has done, you are a living ex-arch that will the ....