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shannon: organized labor traditionally has been a force in the election. is that changing? bring in the panel again to talk about it. steve, juan, charles. juan, i ll start with you. they have been a power house. they have money, and organization and people on the ground. but are they losing steam as a force within politics? if you look, if you track it over the course of the end of the 20th century and of course now start t start of the 21st, they are on a steady decline. with the membership and money they invest in campaign. matter of influence, you can go back to president reagan and the air traffic controllers and the democrat he can break in. that is all on the table. if you come to the last few years of president bush, it was on deregulation not toward the union. come to the obama administration and they re more open to the union and union leaders than we have seen in years in washington. the record of visit to white ....
But where are the republican ideas? the republicans again are talking about tax cuts, tax cuts that are not, not stimulative in their nation and will not produce jobs. the president is up a tree and he doesn t know what to do on some levels but the idea of rebuilding america infrastructure, you could wrap a flag around it. apple pie and good stuff but everyone is so jaded the republicans won t approve of it. they see it as last-minute gesture and the voters will think you came up too short, too late. the democratic reflex, if you don t know what to do spend. i don t think it s a wasteful project, though, to build on america s infrastructure. shannon: we ll give juan the final word. gentleman, thank you. that s it on the economy. tell us what you think the president s main economic ....
So they come up with a mini version of this. which will be throwing $50 billion and it will not leave a trace unlike the interstate highway system or the t.v.a. or the hoover dam which were real infrastructure ideas. this will not leave, absolutely nothing will be left behind. it will be a temporary fix. i like the way the president announces, we heard it will be a six-year plan. even lennon that the mostey to modesty to stop at five. shannon: pushed it another year. charles calls it a mini stem. others say pandering to union before the election. he was speaking to an organized labor crowd. are those fair accusations? yeah. look, he is speaking to a labor crowd. they re looking for labor jobs. blue collar jobs. so what we are talking about is the construction work and the like. things that put people in jobs to pay a good salary for someone who doesn t have a ....
We don t want any part of it and obstruct it and block it and get away with it. shannon: of course, the question of the price tag. here is what the president had to say about that today. this is a plan that will be fully paid for. it will not add to the deficit over time. we are going to work with congress to see to that. shannon: all right, steve. does congress have the appetite to work on this project? i don t know. probably not. certainly republicans will not be enthusiastic about it. what perplexes me about this move is that the white house, if it s been good at anything it s good at politics. we saw it at the campaign and we have seen it since president obama became president. this doesn t make sense. the single biggest issue or one of the biggest issues under the broad category of the economy in wisconsin right now is a very controversial high-speed rail project. going from madison, milwaukee, perhaps to chicago. the popularity of that has gone in the fall of 2009 from 57 ....
Of june. i talked to a couple of people today saying the private polling is even more against this project. this big project. to go to wisconsin, to announce massive new levels of infrastructure spending in the middle of a debate where infrastructure spending is at the heart of it and deeply unpopular makes absolutely no sense to me. i made a bunch of phone calls today talking to people because i figured i was missing something. that s always possible. people don t have an explanation. what are they doing? we don t know. shannon: odd choice and location. we know the president will speak again on wednesday. he will talk about tax cuts, which was all over the sunday shows this weekend. charles, what do you make of that? talking about the tax cuts. again, how are those paid for elsewhere? he said they will be closing loopholes and thus enabling the other cuts. let me explain how the ....