On the recordDecember 1, 2010
I am delighted you made those points. And I have some charts here that have been kicking around my office for 4 or 5 years on the very points you are making because you are so absolutely correct. It seems to me that somehow President Obama and the other leadership here in Congress have forgotten some amazingly simple things, but we make life too complicated sometimes. One thing is the American Dream was not to make rich people poor. The American Dream was about making people who didn't have much money to be richer. Sometimes richer economically, sometimes because they come here without a high school education and watch their kids pick up a college diploma. There are a lot of ways that American Dream works, but it was never to tear people down. It was always to build people up. That seems like kind of a basic idea, but it seems like the focus is we are so worried about somebody being rich that we are willing to melt the economy down just to try to get them. And the funny thing is that people who are very rich have ways of hiding their money, and all you do is hurt a lot of innocent people. The other thing that seems so simple to me is if you are really honestly worried about unemployment and jobs, it seems like the obvious thing is jobs come from employers. And if you destroy employers, how are you going to have jobs? That is not a complicated formula. In Missouri we would say that is kind of a no-brainer; and yet somehow here in Washington, D.C. we make it too complicated.…
