message programs, but real substantive programs people can believe in, even if the other side won t go along, got to stand up and fight for it. what i was going to say is you and i both know anything substantive, anything bold, anything effective, right, is not going to have any chance in the house, so if you have an option between some small bore thing, unemployment extension, these payroll extensions, tax cuts, and going big, isn t there a practical, pragmatic argument to be made for the former? i think absolutely on economic grounds everybody is making the case in order to deal with the deficit problem, we have to deal with the jobs problem, so it s good economics, on the politics ground, if we re fighting on a frame of who cuts more, how fast, that s the wrong terrain to be fighting. and there s a huge untapped reservoir of popular anger, discontent, desire to see progress on the jobs program. so, yes, he would have to do some educating of the person
do we have that sound? there we go. i ll be putting forward when they come back in september a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs, and to control our deficit, and my attitude is get it done. was this encouraging to you, what do you think about this? well, i definitely think the president needs to focus on jobs and we ve begun to hear more from him about it. it has been very puzzling that even when it became clear that the stimulus wasn t going to do the job and get us as far as we needed to go that we haven t seen large-scale substantiative proposals to put millions of people back to work, and i think that s what we re waiting to see, so not small-board targeted message programs, but real substantiative programs people can believe in, even if the other side won t go along, got to stand up and fight for it. what i was going to say is you and i both know anything substantiative, anything bold,
last two months. he announced he was going to have a new jobs plan come september. do we have that sound? there we go. i ll be putting forward when they come back in september a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs, and to control our deficit, and my attitude is get it done. was this encouraging to you, what do you think about this? well, i definitely think the president needs to focus on jobs and we ve begun to hear more from him about it. it has been very puzzling that even when it became clear that the stimulus wasn t going to do the job and get us as far as we needed to go that we haven t seen large-scale substantiative proposals to put millions of people back to work, and i think that s what we re waiting to see, so not small-board targeted message programs, but real substantiative programs people can believe in, even if the other side won t go along, got