On the recordMay 18, 2010
You know, when I spoke of the small town, the small city that we shared in the good news with yesterday, the city of Waterbury in Albany County in Upstate New York, that is one expression of what could be repeated, is being repeated over and over again with municipalities in this country. Then you put that into the business sector and the energy efficiency improvements they are making with the stimulus activity. You talk about households where we put $5 billion into weatherization programs to again create stronger energy environments within which to live. No family should be asked to live in poor energy environments. They are wasteful. Those are wasteful situations in terms of energy supply and dollars that are expended. So when we look at the track record here, you talk about whose side are you on, we are looking at over one-half million jobs created since December, 84 percent of which were in the private sector category. When we look at tax relief, we are not talking about just the upper income strata that was the situation for the Bush administration, but now we are talking about 98 percent of Americans getting relief, to the point where tax bills are at their lowest level since 1950. So we are talking about a whole different approach, a whole different attitude.
