Burgess Owens: “I would like to point out I have been talking about this for 3 months now, and I have yet to see any major columnist…”

“I would like to point out I have been talking about this for 3 months now, and I have yet to see any major columnist discuss it, I have yet to see any editorial board discuss it. Rush Limbaugh, who follows me very closely and often targets me for his ridicule and comments, does not talk about this. I would like to send a message to Rush and his staff to, at least, put this on your agenda and comment on it. Let us introduce it into the dialog and explain to us why in this period where corporations are making very high profits, Wall Street is booming, why in this period of transition, where strange things are taking place in our economy, while Wall Street is booming, corporations are making high profits, there is a great deal of downsizing and streamlining which leads to high unemployment, and, worse than high unemployment, underemployment. People are getting new jobs, but they are making far less than they made before. This has been a transition period, and the way to get through the transition period and finance the kinds of programs that are needed for job retraining, for education, which the President has emphasized that education is vital in this particular situation that we face, we need a way to finance it.”