massive subsidiaries we give to the wind and solar energies, which are in the tens of billions of dollars. as you know, general electric to create green jobs. this is another problem with obama onics. it tries to pick winners and losers. bad guys and good guys. bad guys are oil company. let s screw them. give the tax break to everybody else. it never works. history shows planned economy is inferior to economy based on free choice. the government can t pick winners and losers. i can t do it successfully. if you want to know why i believe still, even with the usama bin laden bounce he is getting, the president is in trouble from be real it will be close, because the economy is not responding to what he has done. it s not responding enough. we had 10% unemployment and what did he do? pin point windmills.
you lose the tax credit. david: interesting idea. neil? i think we need incentives for performance, but not pay for performance. the problem is we have teachers unions that helped to bankrupt metropolitan areas all over the country. we re talking about giving the members 20,000 or $30,000 for doing their job? they re supposed to be civil servant. if you want incentive, i agree with bill. give them a choice to move out of schools and if the schools don t perform well they get closed and the teachers lose their job. that s an incentive. david: stephane, teachers like everybody else, good ones and bad ones. shouldn t the good ones get pay more? sure. obama has this right. he has put in a place, a program, smart program, carrot called race to the top and states all over the country are having this discussion and we re actually kind of moving in the direction. i tell you what i m worried about is we go too far with it. we end up with the high school classes like we were reading ab
doesn t seem possible, but the national education association did not invite anybody from the administration to speak at their convention this summer. the reason? well, they re ticked about the president s pay for performance plan. saying it creates a system of winners and losers, but e-mac, you say that s what teachers need. listen, before i begin, teachers are basically i think they should get paid combat pay because they re running social welfare agencies and nurseries. the things they put up with parents that don t take care of the baby and children and lay it off on teacher is wrong. i ve got a family of teachers, i come from a family of teachers michigan grandmother was a teacher, my sister is a teacher david: pay for performance. yes. $20,000 to $30,000 per teacher if they re bringing the school children test scores up. now we have, we are seeing in d.c., we see 8% of the children there, eighth graders don t have the grade level math. by the way, they re spending $14,0
look pretty. david: mike, what happens when the tax cut goes away? you are penalizing investing, savings and job creation, david. look david: what will happen? spell it out for us. are we going to see more job losses or ends of small businesses? what? stagnant economy, an economy like when jimmy carter was president. a lot of it is for the same reason. i agree with quinton about one thing. he s half right. spending by bush increase, spending is the problem, not the lower tax rates. the problem is president obama doubled-down on that. david: e-mack, point is right now can we afford a tax increase when it could put small businesses out of work? no. we re making the same mistakes from 1932 and 1937. that s why they may not do because it s political suicide to do that. look, basically we re seeing with obama care, 20 other new taxes coming in, three big ones to hit the middle class on january 1. david: stephane, you agree.
massive subsidiaries we give to the wind and solar energies, which are in the tens of billions of dollars. as you know, general electric to create green jobs. this is another problem with obama onics. it tries to pick winners and losers. bad guys and good guys. bad guys are oil company. let s screw them. give the tax break to everybody else. it never works. history shows planned economy is inferior to economy based on free choice. the government can t pick winners and losers. i can t do it successfully. if you want to know why i believe still, even with the usama bin laden bounce he is getting, the president is in trouble from be real it will be close, because the economy is not responding to what he has done. it s not responding enough. we had 10% unemployment and what did he do?