the ople which the government is paying for and lowered the nonwage labor costs you make these companies much more competitive globally. to get out of debt in this country, we have to get out of ourd trade debt first and above all as your reporter was saying earlier. bring back manufacturing. how do the european social democracies do it? they assume the nonwage costs or lower them and provide public benefits directly to people. that s what we should be doing. like chrysler and gm. we put those ade. we made those companies competitive again. yeah. here the government ought to be going to medicare, incasing social security. the paradox is we become much more of a social democracy, more come pesive. thomas, thank you ry much for your time today. i appreciate it. you re welcome. secretary of state hillary clinton heading to egypt right now. clinton will meet tomorrow with israeli prime minister netanyahu and palestinian president abbas at the red sea resort in egypt
risk. president obama and vice president biden trying to do what they can in the next seven weeks to make sure democrats keep control of the house and senate in the midterm elections. thomas gagon wrote a piece for the ntion and author of were you born on the wrong continent. good to see you today. contessa. let s go through the tips you have for democrats to keep hold ofng the majority. do something for your base. i thought that was what do something for your base. well, health care reform didn t help our base. itly really ending help people the red states who aren t particularly grateful. it helps the people uninsured and a civilized, decent thing to do but those aren t the people voting for us. we need to do something much more new deal fdr-like covers everybody like raising social security.