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Permanent for the personal taxes , which would include small business, very important and i think kevin brady is exactly right. we are noodling about an additional 10% middle class tax cut, just noodling, looking at different plans. maria: okay. we will see but look, the great story of 2018, you said it i think in the break. maria: right. the economy is stupid. we are growing, you know, 3.5% in q3, 4.2% in q2, 3% overall, and my friends on the other side of the aisle said you couldn t beat 2. we re now beating 3. maria: absolutely. this is the biggest single story of 2018. maria: another big story is how china has been behaving, they ve been stealing from us for decade s and now there s a report , larry, that says that it s a report that says that now china is considering buying oil from the united states versus iran as part of a larger trade ....
Look year that was the last expensive race in the history of congress, maria, more than $50 million spent on that one seat. democrats are coming in trying to take that seat again spending over $20 million. karen is tough. she s running a great race and done a great job as a member of congress. i think karen holds that seat. that s going to be one to watch along the east coast. look at, maria value a czar what a great dynamic leader coming out of miami where democrats put in that seat and thought look, we could just put a clinton-ite in there and just grab a seat and yet you ve got maria who speaks spanish in a very hispanic district and doing a great job running in that race , over the west coast, you mentioned california, a lot of competitive races there. look at the mimi walters race. she s a great member of our team and they re spending tens of millions of dollars there and then you go to the ed royce seat retiring, a great candidate on ....
Blue collar workers take a look at the numbers. the employment increase is largely centered on blue collar workers they re the big winners, fastest since the 80s and they are the ones experiencing the largest wage gains, blue collar workers have beaten white collar workers. maria: right. nothing against white collar workers i m just saying this is reaching down deep into the blue collar area precisely what we wanted, with our supply side tax cuts across-the-board and the re regulation of the presidents program, including energy. maria: you just heard democratic congressman tim ryan from ohio on this program right and he said 83% of the tax cut plan went to the top 1%. what s your answer to that? i pushed back a little bit. i don t know where mr. ryan gets that number. i have respect for him, he is rather more moderate democrat but those kinds of knit picking ....
the dropout rates for secondary school are very high. very high. and so you start to see that i think we as americans don t necessarily see ourselves the way we really are. we have this sort of idealized view that we pioneered all this stuff. you know, the universal education and press free, and we did. but to keep up and to keep driving and to expand and access more and more people takes a very determined effort. and i think in this country, we haven t delivered in many respects. that s the great story, isn t it? because you re right, so many of these areas, access to education in the united states, is absolutely the pioneer in the 19th and early 20th centuries. but the great story seems to me the catch-up. everybody is caught up, and a lot of people have caught up and even passed us. i think, you know, hopefully americans can we can start to look at ourselves honestly here. ....
Education and press free, and we did. but to keep up and to keep driving and to expand and access more and more people takes a very determined effort. and i think in this country, we haven t delivered in many respects. that s the great story, isn t it? because you re right, so many of these areas, access to education in the united states, is absolutely the pioneer in the 19th and early 20th centuries. but the great story seems to me the catch-up. everybody is caught up, and a lot of people have caught up and even passed us. i think, you know, hopefully americans can we can start to look at ourselves honestly here. we can look at ourselves objectively. we can understand that there is a tremendous both social and economic interest in moving america forward, back closer to a leadership position on many of these areas. frankly, i think the reason we are such a leader economically ....