12-city jobs tour. and so we ve gone across the country, to milwaukee, detroit, minneapolis, and we have gone to new york city, we reoing to have to miami, because we need to hear from the real folks. one lady in minneapolis stood up and said she s a wal-mart employee, a manager, makes $9.80 an hour, no benefits and says she carries three cards in her pocket. one is her wal-mart i.d., the second her discount card, and the third is a welfare card, a card so that she can partake of the basic social safety net that wal-mart refuses to grant to her, even though she is a manager and even though she is a valued employee by them. you wouldn t know it by the pay they give her. so we ve gotten outside of the beltway and we ll keep doing it. when i heard orrin hatch s statement today, i was quite frankly flabbergasted and amazed at how out of touch he must be. i mean, when is the last time this guy bagged a grocery or sat in a barbershop? doesn t he know that people are
that s why social security, medicaid, and the rest of the social safety net are offered up for sacrifice. even though seven times as many americans rank jobs and the economy as the most important problem fate facing the country over the deficit, 53% to 7%. joining me is congressman keith ellison. congressman, do you are look around and think that you are in some sort of crazy bizarro world? because to me, the conversation in washington is so detached from the immediate pressing need for jobs i don t even know where to begin. we had to break out of the beltway and go out to america. the progressive caucus is on a 12-city jobs tour. and so we ve gone across the country, to milwaukee, detroit, minneapolis, and we have gone to new york city, we re going to have to miami, because we need to hear from the real folks.
the poor and middle class have it too easy in this country. that s why social security, medicaid, and the rest of the social safety net are offered up for sacrifice. even though seven times as many americans rank jobs and the economy as the most important problem fate facing the country over the deficit, 57 53% to 7%. joining me is congressman keith ellison. congressman, do you are look around and think that you are in some sort of crazy bizarreo world? because to me, the conversation in washington is so detached from the immediate pressing need for jobs i don t even know where to begin. we had to break out of the beltway and go out to america. the progressive caucus is on a 12-city jobs tour. and so we ve gone across the country, to milwaukee, detroit, minneapolis, and we have gone to new york city, we re going to have to miami, because we need to hear from the real folks.
may experience slow heart rate. [ woman ] whenever i needed her, she was there for me. now i m here for her. [ female announcer ] ask the doctor about your loved one trying the exelon patch. visit exelonpatch.com to learn more. while republicans in congress are playing politics with the debt ceiling, progressives are focusing on jobs. the congressional progressive caucus has launched a jobs tour to hear what every day americans have to say. members of congress have already held events in minneapolis,
he did he will not say how do you respond to an opponent who continues to throw such absurd charges at you. the u.s. constitution is is the supreme law of the land. it s really all about division, because tomorrow night when people assemble in the bronx, new york to talk about jobs, our fourth site on the jobs tour, they don t care about religion, they don t care if you re muslim, christian, jew, black, white, they want jobs. she didn t want to talk about jobs because that s not on her agenda, it s not on the republican agenda. it s on our jobs. we re going to keep the focus on jobs, bronx, new york city 5:30 tomorrow be there. keith ellison, thanks for joining us. absolutely.