and governor harry herbert from utah, who is also a member of our executive committee. we are all members of the executive committee, so we appreciate you joining us here today and being part of our beginning of our national governors association, which will kick off in about an hour with our opening session. let me start out by saying that our message is very clear and that is that governors are leading across the nation. governors are addressing the problems that are facing our nation, they are proposing solutions. governors are in the process of laying the groundwork for being able to develop a stronger state, building stronger economies, and we do not have the luxury of an action as we see many times here in washington, d.c. governors are expected to solve problems, expected to solve issues that face our state, which i believe help our nation. while washington remains in the gridlock, many times we see a lot of partisan politics and in action in washington, d.c., we find that our governors are doing their part to work together in collaboration, to share best practic

and governor harry herbert from utah, who is also a member of our negative committee. we are all members of the executive committee, so we appreciate you joining us here today and being part of our beginning of our national approach -- of our national governors association, which will kick off in about an hour with our opening session. me start out by saying that our message is very clear and that is that governors are leading across the nation. governors are addressing the problems that are facing our nation, they are proposing solutions. governors are in the process of laying the groundwork for being able to develop a stronger state, building stronger economies, and we do not have the luxury of an action as we see many times here in washington, d.c. solveors are excited to problems, expected to solve issues that face our state, which i believe help our nation. while washington remains in the see ack, many times we lot of partisan politics and in action in washington, d.c., we find that our governors are doing their part to work together in collaboration, to share bes

herbert walker bush broke his pledge -- not to me, sir, but to the american people. you can read it at atr.org. the pledge is to the american people. i know that obama and harry reid sometimes misunderstand that. they may not have read it very clearly, but it's a pledge to the american people that they won't raise their taxes. no net tax increase. so we took marginal tax rates down when bush 41, the first bush, raised those rates. we had a stalled economy. when we took the capital gains tax when the republicans took the house and senate, we started seeing a real takeoff in the economy in the late 't-- '90s. so lower marginal tax rates create jobs. >> host: your organization was connected with the unions. >> guest: in volkswagen, the german car company, has a manufacturing plant, about 1500 workers in chattanooga. and the united autoworkers fresh off of making detroit work over the last 30 years and dropping the number of united autoworkers from about two-thirds from where it used to be by being a rather aggressive labor union that damaged the neighborhoods and communities that they were in. and the people of chattanooga says we don't want that here. the pay a

broke herbert walker bush his promise to the american people, you can read this on our website. to the american people. obama and harryeid sometimes understand this and maybe they did not read it very quickly -- very clearly, this was a pledge not to raise the taxes of the american people. we took marginal tax rates down when the first george bush raised those rates and we had a stalled economy, when we took the capital gains tax down -- we started to see a takeoff off in the economy in the late 90's. marginal tax rates help create jobs. >> he mentioned the vote on unions. the organization was connected with that? , the german car company has a manufacturing plant in chattanooga. united auto workers, fresh off of making detroit work over the last 30 years, driving that city into bankruptcy and the number of united auto workers by about two thirds, from where it used to be. by being a rather aggressive labor union, damaged the companies and the industry in the neighborhood of the communities that they were in. the people of chattanooga said, they don't want that here, the payment for work is quite good and this was not