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i m glad he s talking about jobs, i am, i think this is what he should do, i m glad he s doing it. but what if a president talked about jobs and nobody was listening? this is not maybe you should listen. this is not breaking through what did you say? this is not cutting through the noise. well, now according to reports we hear, he has an issue with house and senate democrats on the jobs. they want to pick it and split it up. yesterday, mr. cramer had an interview with treasury secretary geithner. i thought it was an interview that could very well save america. you know something? other than the detroit tigers, it s the greatest thing that s happened in this country and we call it the tigers. right up until the first pitch of hal ladahalladay. do they have any clear explanation, jim, as to why it s taken them so long to really, really get to the point we re cueing up the sound bite. i would tell you that one of the reasons why is that the ....
Open to that. so do you believe it has a very strong mix? no, actually is this something that s going to jolt america? the economy? no, it can t have that kind of impact because the gop is just going to block anything that involves more taxes. and second, a lot of the things that geithner wants to do and this president want to do seem a little bit unworldly versus people actually in business. i started five businesses, i never started one, not one because i was trying to get a little bit of a break on a payroll tax. these kind of little tinkerings on payroll taxes, uninsurance, are same old, same old i hear that. so what would you do? what do you need? i offered a plan to geithner, bit of a canadian plan and it works, canada s economy really terrific. go where the jobs are. instead of trying to stimulate jobs in solar where there aren t any jobs, go to north dakota, go to texas, go to oklahoma, go to ....
International financial crisis has got everybody completely distracted. the worries on a daily basis that europe is hanging by a thread has kept our policymakers from being able to figure out some big plan. i m not excusing them. i m not excusing geithner, because he s got to be on his game every moninute to create jobs, but the focus is europe. let s listen to the interview that changed america. jim cramer. what we have done is our president s put together a package which we think has a very powerful mix of tax incentives and investment that would be good for job creation and the economy right now. and we re proposing to make sure it doesn t have long-term deficits. and people will have different views about what s good for growth, and i haven t heard them, but if people got a better idea on growth in the short-term, of course we d be ....