my father has retiree coverage from working at john deere, and i have coverage through my husband. we are not worried about our personal health insurance, but most of our employees are not in that position. we have a husband and wife team, and other people who are like family members. we really want to be responsive to them and for them and be able to provide them with coverage. my brother who was to come back and held as a family and two small children and cannot afford to go without health care. a decision that should be easy to come back and help run the family business and the legacy is becoming complicated because they cannot afford it without health insurance coverage. after looking at the draft proposal, i think this is a major step forward in addressing the health insurers problems we face. it meets the priorities identified by the main street small-business owners. i look action will be taken sooner rather than later to help us provide health insurance. what is most important to the reform is the creation of a really strong public health insurance option. we need an option

with it on such a short period of time, we won't be investing in equipment with companies like john deere and caterpillar or aztec industries on new plants for asphalt plants or ready-mix plants. process machinery industry -- it all kind of goes to a screeching halt. it just gets stagnated. in addition to that as the work is kind of paring down, we all know the economy and the state of the economy today and we don't see an immediate recovery in the private commercial sector. you're going to see a peak of employment with road activity and then it's going to end and then you're going to go back to the level of funding -- >> do you think that peak will arrive, this spring, sometime next year? >> very well could, yeah. and then you're going to enter the next construction season which is primarily the summer and fall months of 2010 where that work will be tapering off. we won't be seeing a private sector recovery, in our minds, and then you're going to just see all these jobs that i believe we've been protecting and that the stimulus has done a very good job of protecting and securing existing

coming up can bobo author of wage that in america and john deere who wrote flat broke in the free market. >> welcome to the 26th annual chicago tribunes lit fest. we would like to thank our sponsors and community partners who make this event possible. just a few housekeeping notes before we begin today's program. out of courtesy for our panelists and gas, please turn off her cell phone and all other electronic devices. flash photography is also not permitted. today's program will be broadcast live on c-span2 book tv. if there is time for a question and answer session with the author at the end, we asked you to use the microphone in the center of the room so the home viewing audience can hear your question. if you would like to watch the program again, note that the coverage will be re- aired saturday evening beginning at 10 p.m. central standard time. please welcome our moderator, author of which side are you on, trying to be for labor when it's flat on its back. >> i'm just a moderator, and the moderator is supposed to moderate and calm people down. [laughter] >> but i don't think that

ford, chrysler, g.m., john d e -- john deere, caterpillar, have all endorsed this legislation. there's a reason for that. they understand that to stand still with existing technology is not going it cut it. they're going to continue to lose market share and they're going to lose to foreign competition. if i may, i'd just like to read into the record some of the other companies, especially in the energy sector, and the reason i want to read these names into the record is because so often we hear from our friends on the other side of the aisle, this is going to destroy american businesses as we know it. that would come as news to the following companies who have enthusiastically endorsed this specific bill. duke energy, colby the way represents 75% of duke's portfolio, american electric power, edison electric institute, ex lon, pg yapped e corporation, f.p.l. group in florida, austin energy, consolation energy, seattle city light, public service enterprise, p&m resources in new mexico, shell oil, conoco, b.p. america, energy energy, g.e.,al could hea, dupont, dow chemical, johnso

never think about buying a john deere. the same was true on the other side with other dealerships in small towns. what i don't understand is if the local dealers are not a burden and it seems to me in this back and forth, boy, they're not much of a burden to you at all. it seems to me they represent the ability to sell what you manufacture, even the smaller ones. it's just counter intuitive that you would decide you know what,g to limit the ability to sell out there by reducing the number of people that are going to sell. just, you know, i got, went through masters degree in business and so on. they never taught that. it seems to me that you would want to maximize the opportunity to tinseling a product that has been piling up on the lots. >> may i make one more comment in. >> yes. >> excuse me. if -- say we stock about 65 new cars. the dealer next to me is 30 miles away, he's completely full. he's already stocking everything he can stock. he's up on his floor plan, he's full. by eliminating me, that other dealer is not goi

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