lamar yankees was talking about the boeing situation.ey start doing away with tax expenditures which are basically tax writeoffs, well, a bunch of american manufacturers get a lot of tax benefits for producing here in the country. what are you going to do about that if you're going to close these tax loopholes? >> the president in toledo, ohio, yesterday talking mainly about the auto industry but made reference to current economy situations. here's what he had to say. >> even though the economy's growing, even though it's created more than two million jobs over the past 15 months, we still face some tough times. we still face some challenges. this economy took a big hit. it's just like if you had a bad illness. illness. if you got hit by a truck, you know, it's going to take a while for you to mend. and that's what's happened to our economy. it's taking a while to mend. and, you know, there's still some headwinds that are coming at us. lately, it's been high gas prices that's caused a lot of hardship for a lot of working families and the

lamar yankees was talking about the boeing situation.n they start doing away with tax expenditures which are basically tax writeoffs, well, a bunch of american manufacturers get a lot of tax benefits for producing here in the country. what are you going to do about that if you're going to close these tax loopholes? >> the president in toledo, ohio, yesterday talking mainly about the auto industry but made reference to current economy situations. here's what he had to say. >> even though the economy's growing, even though it's created more than two million jobs over the past 15 months, we still face some tough times. we still face some challenges. this economy took a big hit. it's just like if you had a bad illness. illness. if you got hit by a truck, you know, it's going to take a while for you to mend. and that's what's happened to our economy. it's taking a while to mend. and, you know, there's still some headwinds that are coming at us. lately, it's been high gas prices that's caused a lot of hardship for a lot of working families and