Middle class, who suffered real purchasing power declines in the last 20 years. through globalization and automation, as well as some of the trade issues that where plants have been exported to asia and mexico. we have to have a healthy middle class or we don t have the united states that we ve all come to love and believe in. sandra: can you help the average american understand where the president is going here. he s talking about tax cuts. do you interpret him talking about a tax healthy for the wealthy? i didn t necessarily hear a tax hike. he may not support cutting taxes on the wealthy. the key to wealth creation is business and job creation is business. the wealthiest people if we can cut taxes and get rid of some government [ inaudible ] sandra: we appear to be losing congressman francis rooney as you can seeing images