trade practices from the chinese, or currency manipulations, or tools like tax credits, and part of what i propose and part of the agenda has to be, for example, providing a $4,000 tax credit to people who hire people who have been out of work for six months or more. it needs to be as mary kay says, it has to be in the private and public sector, and we have an obligation to provide better schools and roads and ports and bridges, because we will fall behind the rest of the developed or undeveloped world. i will keep you in one more break, and then can you get back to your saturday right after this. covergirls set your lashes free.
right? i was not trying to gang up on him or single him out. he just heads a system that rewards fund-raising. above all else. above a great idea. above building a nation. we know what to do to create jobs. the president must know. he needs first to make it a priority. it s not a priority. his own administration has 1.25 pattens pending in the office, and these people paid the fees and we can t get around to doing the patten work. there are three jobs per patten. number two, fair trade with china. why doesn t the president stand up and defend american working people and tell the chinese, if you make products with child labor, if women work 12 hours a
skilsz mismatch. this is actually a very contested point. because there s two ways of looking at what happened in the recession. one is we had the financial crisis and we have tons of debt that we are deleveraging and people are out of work because of this cat kizam, and then the economy during the boom years was actually there was a skills mismatch and covered up by the fact that we have the housing boom and the housing boom going away is like the tide lowering and showing what is left on the beach. there are different ways of which way we are responding. do you think that s the right way to think about it? i think there s a million skills mismatch jobs, but there are 14 million jobs that workers are ready to go and do, roads and bridges, fix the schools, and home workers can provide health care, and there is plenty of things that we can figure out
this was well before occupy wall street, because i believe very strongly the best way to solve the debt and the deficit situation or one essential means of doing it, and one part of what we have to do is to put america and put connecticut back to work, because that s the way that we will eventually it happened during the clinton administration, which is the last time that we had a surplus, and the best way to is put people back to work. mary kay, haven t democrats been part of the problems on the conversation of austerity, and democrats have been talking about cuts and nancy pelosi, she said we entered an age of
democrats don t operate mono prolive had klee. we need construction jobs and rebuilding roads and bridges, and too much of it going to places where it could not accomplish that. as important as the size of investment in the future and building is how it is directed and spent, and that s why i have been very specific in what i have asked to be done. by the way, i wanted to introduce one other element which is not the size of the unemployment problem but the nature of it. we are talking about people half of our unemployed people have been out of work for six months or more, and so i propose, for example, that we bar discrimination against