I happen to believe that the stimulus package did pretty much what it was supposed to do. It created 2 or 3 million jobs.
investing in infrastructure--our roads, our bridges, public transportation--is perhaps the fastest way we can do that.
As a Nation, we should be deeply concerned that in China they are building high-speed rail all over the place.
We will take that money. If other States do not want it, that is fine.
Investing in infrastructure is a lot more important than giving tax breaks to billionaires.
If you do not invest in infrastructure, does the infrastructure, our roads and bridges, magically get better?
At a time when we have such a grotesquely unequal distribution of income and wealth, where over a recent 25-year period,...
We now have, by far, the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country.
Why didn't you ask the wealthiest people in this country to start paying--I know you did some of it--but in a much more ...
But Mr. Chairman, at the end of the day, in your movement toward deficit reduction, three-quarters of your plan talks ab...
So while the middle class shrinks and poverty increases, the wealthiest people for many years have become much wealthier...