Over the next few years big decisions will be made in Washington on jobs, the economy, taxes and deficits, energy, education, war and peace.

One fifth of my wages go to taxes.

We need better accounting.

And this is despite the fact that everybody knows that small business is the engine of economies.

Put a price on carbon.

It is difficult to find a well paid permanent job.

The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises.

The income tax rate increases in proportion to the salary increase.

And you can say, Well how do you know they're happy?

Richard Steig's last employer.

He was employed by the day.

You've got to go back and say, Hey, I'm going to trust you.

I mean factors like socioeconomic status, education opportunities, occupation and job security, housing, safe neighborhoods, social status and one that is particularly important to me the feeling that you have a place in society, the feeling that you have a social support system, the feeling that you are valued.

But is this really about work? or about tax revenues?

And this I can tell you about where President Obama would take America

West Coast or southeastern.

When legislators and others think about economic development, what they first of all think about are business tax incentives, property tax abatements, job creation tax credits, you know, there are a million of these programs all over the place.

His salary is 250 thousand yen per month.

His salary is 250,000 yen per month.

Mayor Red Thomas' progress platform means more jobs, better education bigger civic improvements and lower taxes.

So, a good economy, employment is up

There are people creating jobs.

Bil Gates

You lack sophistication, Kyoya Izayoi.

You're a tax cheat.

Paper Source

They guaranteed regular employment to their workers.

That when you're gone I have to live in it.

Mary was given a raise by her employer.

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And so you'd say, Wow, we should reward those people.

No, legally, you still are.

The family business in Warroad, Minnesota that didn't lay off a single one of their four thousand employees when the recession even when their competitors shut down dozens of plants, even when it meant the owner gave up some perks and some pay because they understood that their biggest asset was the community and the workers who had helped build that business.

To move our continent forward, to do the things that need doing that I talked about getting young people employed.

Do you hire teachers? Do you build more schools?

Looking at this maybe from a more positive side, that means that I'll always have a job.

Our innovation will be vital.

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Since companies can't produce much revenue, they can't afford to hire any new people.

Employment continued to lag.

You cannot be employed there.

Central and Midwestern states.

The point I'm making is that it is a crime.

The employees threatened to go on strike.