Thomas Daschle: “We ought to be for business, probusiness, just as this administration has shown itself to be with so many of its…”

“We ought to be for business, probusiness, just as this administration has shown itself to be with so many of its policies. Business has never had a better 3-year period than they have had in the last 3 years. We have seen growth in this economy. The stock market has boomed to levels we never dreamed of a couple of years ago. Export sales are up. Everything is going exceedingly well. This economy is as strong as it has been almost in my lifetime. So this administration has been probusiness. There are a lot of things we have proposed that are probusiness, but we ought to say probusiness also ought to mean proworker, making sure that not only corporate executives benefit from this wonderful growth in the economy, but the workers do, too: that the workers have a chance to benefit, whether it is in health care, a good paycheck, or retirement security. Those kinds of things ought to be part of the overall economic agenda here so that we do not see the stratification within our economy that we are seeing right now. Be probusiness and proworker.”