the maytag company was a very wealthy company for many years. they knew how to make money and they knew how to make the best product on the market. >> and then whirlpool just came in and changed everything? why, why did they do that? what reason was given to the workers? >> i don't know that any reason was given to the workers other than the fact that they bought the plant. they didn't blame the workers. they didn't blame the union. they just bought the plant and made the announcement they was going to close a year later which they did. >> max, when you think of what you hear about whirlpool, in the last quarter, they had a -- they more than doubled their net profit to $177 million but is laying off thousands of workers. what does this tell you about what's happening in america, max? >> what's happening, in my mind, is these job creators, as the republicans like to call them, they're creating jobs, but they're not creating jobs here in the united states. they're creating jobs offshore. >> there's five republicans running for president who will p

here are the maytag employees. here are the pella window employees. and here's where the red liners go. every time that there is a job shipped overseas, it hurts the blues and it skyrockets the income of the red liners, the top 1% and 2%. and republicans today, i guess you could say in the belly of the beast, the middle of the country, where jobs are being lost, they had all the same garbage they have at all the debates. tax cuts for the wealthy. not one person that i talked to 30 miles away from pella, iowa, on saturday said, i need a tax cut. no. they said they needed a freakin' job and they wanted to know why the rich who have gotten all the tax cuts in recent years, two of them in 2003, or 2001 and 2003 -- where are the jobs? outsourcing has butchered our economy and the republicans have absolutely no solution other than washington speak. even in the middle of the country. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. are republicans responsible for killing manufacturing jobs in america? text "a" for yes and text "b"

whirlpool purchased maytag with the big manufacturing center here in central iowa, which will be getting some of those jobs. >> right, they're going to add 160 jobs. alcoa will be producing more aluminum for the auto industry, they'll be adding a couple hundred jobs, real good manufacturing jobs in deafen part. so we're having some success. but we're not satisfied. we want to do a lot more. >> tom: governor, do you find yourself competing more and more with other states for jobs? >> we're competing in a world economy. so the competition is not just our neighboring states, it's all throughout the world. and we need to make sure that we're reducing the regulatory and tax burdens that are an impediment in our state but also our nation because of the high corporate income tax, because of the penalty to bring profits back from overseas to reinsist here is at a competitive disadvantage. >> tom: the companies you mentioned that are looking to iowa to expand, whirlpool, alcoa, have they been asking for incentives to create jobs in iowa? >> yes, we've provided some incentive, but that's a small p

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i have a question about the closing of the whirlpool and maytag plants. governor of michigan said she asked the world will people if they could locate -- gst whirlpool -- she asked the whirlpool peopple. -- people. an american worker is paid $10 to $12 an hour. is it true the republican party is getting paid off for jobs that are being of shored -- off- shored to china and mexico in corporations like john deere and caterpillar? host: mr. gowdy. guest: teacher the republican party is being paid off -- is it true at the republican party is being paid off? no. we have to elevate the discourse. this denigrates the debate a low bittle bit. labor costs are a small part of the consideration. it depends on which biz's you're referring to -- it depends on what business you're referring to. regulatory, litigation, and the uncertainty of not knowing what comes next. is it going to be health care, cap and trade? uncertainty is the real enemy of job creation. congress has all other problems -- congress has a lot of problems. i don't think it's destructive -- construct

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unless you have the company coming back to america -- maytag, whirlpool -- you have the head of general electric who sits on the board for jobs in the united states and egypt hundreds of thousands of jobs to china. -- he shipped hundreds of thousands of jobs to china. host: independent line. caller: i agree with the last caller. host: specifically how? caller: energy, fuel. we are being cheated on. host: what do you think about these proposals to raise revenue as far as taxes is concerned? caller: what the last caller said. bring the jobs back here. host: buffalo, new york. chris, democrats' line. caller: hello? yes. host: you are on. caller: i am on disability. and i am on medicare. they are cutting back everything. and the republicans, when they say will raise taxes, but they want to deduct money someplace else, so the government does not get any net revenue. that is all they do is offset the tax's someplace else. so, they don't really care about the deficit at all. and if they really wanted to make extra money, the oil line coming from canada, instead of running it all the way to lou

i have a question about the closing of the whirlpool and maytag plants. the governor of michigan said she asked the world will people if they could locate -- gst whirlpool -- she asked the whirlpool peopple. -- people. an american worker is paid $10 to $12 an hour. is it true the republican party is getting paid off for jobs that are being of shored -- off- shored to china and mexico in corporations like john deere and caterpillar? host: mr. gowdy. guest: teacher the republican party is being paid off -- is it true at the republican party is being paid off? no. we have to elevate the discourse. this denigrates the debate a low bittle bit. labor costs are a small part of the consideration. it depends on which biz's you're referring to -- it depends on what business you're referring to. regulatory, litigation, and the uncertainty of not knowing what comes next. is it going to be health care, cap and trade? uncertainty is the real enemy of job creation. congress has all other problems -- congress has a lot of problems. i don't think it's destructive -- const