he went to singapore. the asian city state of 4 million where everyone has access to health care is famously healthy. >> singapore surpasses the united states in most measures when you look at the health of society. >> reporter: life expectancy in singapore is 82 years, compared to 78 in the united states. and singapore is achieving that success in a cost-effective way. the u.s. spends nearly 17% of its gross domestic product on health care. by contrast singapore spends only 12%, yet its health system is widely regarded to be one of the best in the world. so how does singapore do it? american dan snyder worked in u.s. health care before taking over a hospital group in singapore. he says the singapore system works through a combination of quality care and a compulsory national savings program called medisave. >> throughout your working career and life, you're paying into a fund. that fund then grows in value over time. and then you use those resources to pay for health care. >> reporter: between 6% and 8% o

in singapore, it's pay as you go. tolls are collected automatically under a plan known as electronic road pricing, or erp. the goal, to unclog urban traffic jams by discouraging driving on popular roads during peak hours. >> unless i have no choice, i will travel a long way to get to the place if i can avoid the erp system. >> reporter: singapore's road pricing system, the world's first, was born out of necessity. an island nation of 400 square miles singapore is crowded. with 4.8 million people. >> we have been, in a way, forced by circumstances to do many of the things that we had to do. >> reporter: because land is so limited, building roads comes at the expense of houses, schools and offices. so the government strictly controls the number of cars on the road by making it very expensive to own one. citizens must bid for a license just to buy a car, a permit which can cost as much as the car itself. and that's just the beginning of what drivers have to pay. >> but once we get in, we have to go to another -- >> repor

you look at the -- manhattan is like a little singapore island at war with the government extracting money. matt, when you look at this issue, i look at the republicans and the democrats, both are so sucking on the teet of money that is perpetrated on the singapore of the west, manhattan island, that i don't know that either party qualified to reform the banking system. do you see any political fak son that looks like they're actually willing to deal with it? >> i would really like to see republicans come up with a better idea. i think this whole debate missed the point. i think you're spot on in your analysis. what we should have been doing is talking about accountability. accountability in the residential housing sector and in the banking sector and for regulatory failure. we missed that opportunity. and what we've done instead is we've offered the regulators more regulations, and a new agency, we've offered bailouts to the bad actors -- >> everybody gets it. everybody except for the politicians and bankers seem to get it. $3.7 billion in the mid-term elections are going to cost, a

lichtenstein, monaco bahrain, south korea, iceland, singapore, st. kitts?eryone in the top 20 -- we can fit the 25 in the continental united states. we have to get off comparing as -- comparing apples to oranges. it is like saying the city of new york has it and so we are fine. we have 95% of our people on broadband. 5% do not. they are in my district. the stimulus fund is not going to them. that is what works people up. 95% of us have it. it is the private sector that throws it out. we want to take over another sixth of the economy through moving this whole information age from title i to title ii? we're not going to get a surprise from the chairman this time because it is here. some commentators have suggested a second approach in which the fcc would implement certain plan recommendations under its title ii authority. let us have this hearing. let us have this debate. the system is working. what is not working is in rural america. we spend billions of dollars and the money is not going there. we have the stimulus rollout. we are overbuilding places that

when we have data, singapore , but if you actually way the data, despite population size, the correlations go up because usa is the biggest country there in the next biggest country is in japan. you have small countries and large countries that both hands. nobody has yet suggested an explanation that cannot easily be dismissed. this is what happens to and come distribution in the u.s.a. since 1975, the steep rise during the '80s doing up until the early 90's and it has been leveling since then. the data rises since 2005. says tell people feel when they have a similar rise 70 quality and they can detect the effect of that on society. the quality of social relations becomes more antisocial. if you want more of this you can get it from our book. each chapter deals with a different problem and shows the data and goes through the kind of explanations applied just to that particular outcome. it is what we have said basically a set of slides you can download. however let me end by saying i think the take-home message is that we must adopt thinking of raising the quality of human life by raising m

singapore could not possibly work. the fact that those much smalle polities have decent welfare states and decent governments suggests to me that we could have a much more competitive governmental system where a lot more of these even welfare state functions took place at much lower levels of government. but that's into the other book. >> yeah. i agree with arnold on uncertainty. and your second question is one that for me personally in working on this book i wrestled with the most and don't have i would say any sort of satisfactory answer. it's a question we asked a lot of the -- of the interviewees of the book. it's very clear that they don't have satisfactory answers in terms of some closed set that you can say well, here's what we can do and this solves the problem of creation of losers in a dynamic economy. interestingly ned phelps who was one of the economists that we interviewed in the book has been thinking a lot about this question in the context of political philosophy and is doing extremely philosophical wo

singapore's deradicali singapore's deradicalization program, for example, is highly transparent in that it posts information almost right away from the ministry of home affairs which announces releases, changes in status, and renewals of charges which allows researchers to have a pretty good sense of at least the outputs of the singaporean program. my own analysis in this area as was pointed out is more on the front end. it's how people radicalize. and part of what i studied in that regard is the role of ideology and radicalization. now, marisa and i are on the same page that ideology is certainly not the only driving factor of what brings people to terrorism. there's multiple -- what researchers call push factors as well as pull factors. that is things like discrimination, or angers over foreign policy and the like might serve as pushing someone toward joining a radical group. and likewise, there are certain pull factors which might draw someone towards the embrace of terrorist violence. now, astonishing to me within this area there is a question over whether ideology plays any role at

rolls royce, an international company, has announced they will move their fuel cell research from singapore to stark county, ohio and expand their research and development activities, investing $3 million in equipment creating up to 60 jobs while offering training programs with the local college. barbasol invested dollars to buy land and new plant in ashland, ohio. the plant will start with 30 new employees and grow up to 75. scotts miracle grow is opening a plant in ohio and expected to create 100 jobs in the next several months. a potato chip company broke ground earlier this summer to break ground. they will hire 100 employees. these are the types of success stories that have been helped, if not augmented, by the efforts of the american recovery and stimulus act. i yield time to my distinguished friend from virginia, congressman scott. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from ohio for his leadership in bringing us together to make sure we discuss the importance of creating jobs. i think it's important that we put our job efforts in perspective, because a little over a year ago

we wouldn't think in my view looking to the law of singapore concerning littering and we might not beclined to look at the law of sadr city beah on the issue of the marriage or china on organ donation -- >> we are not on instincts and inclinations, we are talking about sound and reason conclusions. >> -- inclinations suggest the context in which this dva is going on is tied into those normative large issues that you spoke of and a great example to singapore the of a cruel and unusual punishment but he might appoint to borrow if you are a death penalty abolitionist from the jurisprudence of singapore has developed about it. if i can get a couple of concrete examples where one gets away from the notion of the inclination and into the concept of inquiry probably because it doesn't involve the of large sort of social question that fuels the debate here and this is my experience as a trial judge in two cases i refer extensively to foreign law. one was a case involving the question of whether an academic researcher working at a university in australia was entitled to retain intellectual pro

. >>> singapore is home to the newest universal studios theme park.t cost a billion dollars to build. it's smaller than universal's other theme parks but it will boost rides that are somewhat or different from other rides at themparks. that including dueling ross her coasters -- roller coasters and shrek castle. >> have you been to universal. >> i was trying to work it out. i knew i had in orlando. i didn't know if that was the name of it and it was. it's amazing. >> it's fun. >> as an adult i haven't done roller scoos officers in a while. they have one in orlando called the hulk. >> yes. >> oh, my gosh. not for the faint at heart. let me tell you. i have this photo, you can buy a photo where they get you looking crazy. >> i can imagine. >> you would enjoy it. i will bring it in tomorrow. >> all right. if i can't get to florida, stay here. the rain and no more snow. >> beautiful sunny skies. warmer temperatures. gary is in the studio. he has a smile on his ce. he is talking about potential 70s in our near future. the full forecast is just ahead. e'r h

christine, back to you in singapore. >> this is how the session is looking in area. take a look at the nikkei 225. up 0.4% after hitting a two-month high earlier on in the session. we had shares of nintendo soaring after they said it has plans to launch a new model of its handheld that will allow users to play the game without use of special glasses. in the greater china region, this is how the picture is looking. shanghai composite hang seng major yeaally higher, both adding 0.1%. financials actively traded following better than expected results from bank of china on tuesday. that is giving a boost to financial shares. down in australia, the s&p 200/asx closed at a two-month high. on that note, let me wrap up your global stock watch. louisa. >> yes. coming up here on "worldwide exchange," our next guest believes that the stock market rally is running out of steam and is in the later stages. we'll discuss strategy after the break. what do you think? write in and let's your thoughts be heard. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange" a top fed official says there's no rush

and as a side note on the singapore thing this is where security comes into play. there is an element neither of us mentioned but we need to remember that security efforts are a tool as part of these programs as well in saudi arabia and in singapore which is a heavily secured state, and they are using that as a part of the tool in post release. so do you all agree, this is an interim question you can either answer or in incorporate into this gentleman's question, do you all agree we are one large terrorist attack away from a departure from using these programs if it is proven that a person we had in custody who went through rehabilitation program conducts and effectively carries out a large scale terrorist attack in the united states? and i figure that, i hear that, i assure you hear that in your research and when you are out in the road and we will go to this gentleman. >> thank you. ayaan from the center of democracy and human rights [inaudible] -- i want to thank the heritage foundation for keeping these e. jensen going on but keeping this issue on the front but

and singapore and tokyo followed in quick succession.asian cities in the top ten, shenzhen. ever heard of shenzhen? it's a still of more than 10 million people in the southeast of china. you ought to get familiar with it. it has its own stock exchange, ranks first out of all the global financial centers for its reputation. in fact, 6 of the top 10 city force reputation are in asia. and new york and london are towards the end of that grouping. understandably so after all the blame heaped on them for the current financial crisis. incredibly, when this study was first conducted just three years ago, shenzhen wasn't even one of the 46 cities on the list. that's how fast some places are moving up to challenge the dominance of western cities. now, of course, shenzhen is a major player. we will all need to learn more about city like it in 291st century. so book your ticket to shenzhen right away. we'll be right back. >>> now for week. here's what i want to know. is the current dust-up in u.s./israeli relations serious or is it a minor affair th

i can do what i have to do in singapore where they may not be on board with the same france, u.s.xgermany, european union regulation. regulation could be another animal here. >> neil: all right. eric bolling, great stuff. you have tosky daddal --sky can daddal. democratic strategist here with his take on this. you might have heard earlier the guests saying they are fearful that we're joined at the hip with the big government thing. that these two are more than pen pals. what do you make of this? >> the problem i have with people talking about government takeover of healthcare, the private healthcare industry is in a stronger position that many argue. this is not a single payer or a government takeover. >> neil: you don't think it will get to that point, chris? >> ideologically and politically, this country is as far away from supporting single payer as you can get. >> neil: that is not the point. if we move for employer balking at the higher rate or the 40% cadillac tax he might say i'll drop my plan and go to the government. the government wins after all. i'll pay the penalty. i

singapore is deradicalization program, for example, is highly transparent embedded host information almostt away from the ministry of home affairs in which announces releases, changes in status and renewals of charges, which allows researchers to have a pretty good sense of at least yelped with the singaporean program. my own analysis in this area, as cully pointed out on the outside, is on the front-end. it's for how people radicalized. and part of what i studied in that regard is the will of ideology and radicalization. you marisa and i on the same page but ideology is certainly not the only driving factor of what brings people to terrorism. his multipolar researchers call push factors as well as pullback airs. that is things like discrimination court angers over foreign policy and the like might service pushing someone's torch i need a radical group. and likewise there a certain pull factors which might draw some untoward the embrace of terrorist violence. now, astonishingly to me within this area there is a question of whether ideology plays any role at all. there are some researchers

singapore has raised its terror threat level after warnings of a plot to attack oil tankers and other ships off its coast. the warning focused on the malacca strait, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. millions of barrels of oil pass through every day. the government says it's increasing security at border crossings, airports, sea ports and other high-risk targets. british prime minister gordon brown insisted today the decision to invade iraq was justified. he testified in london at a public inquiry into britain's role in going to war. tony blair was the prime minister in 2003, when british forces joined the u.s.-led invasion. brown was then in charge of the british treasury. today, he backed his former boss. >> i believe we were making the right decision for the right cause. i believe i had sufficient information before me to make a judgement. of course i wasn't trying to dot job of the foreign secretary or trying to second-guess something that has happened at other meetings. i was looking at the issue on its merits. and as i've said to you before, i was convinced that th

in saudi arabia and in singapore, which is a heavyly secured state, and they are using that as part of the tool post release. which is a heavily secured state. they're using that as part of the tool for post release. >> to you all agree that this is an interim question that you can incorporate into this general -- this gentleman's question. the you agree that we are one attack away from departure from these programs if it is proven that a person we have in custody who went through a rehabilitation program conducts and effectively carries out a large-scale attack in the u.s. and? -- in the u.s.? i'm sure you hear that when you are out on the road. and we will go to this gentleman. >> i am with the center for human rights in saudi arabia. i want to thank heritage foundation for keeping these events going on. keep it on the forefront because it is not going to go away. i have not met your friend yet. i am from saudi arabia. i know a little bit about the country and the way oil is used and i'm very aware from the region that the head of the al qaeda in yemen went through this rehabilitatio

lichtenstein, monaco bahrain, south korea, iceland, singapore, st. kitts? everyone in the top 20 -- we can fit the 25 in the continental united states. we have to get off comparing as -- comparing apples to oranges. it is like saying the city of new york has it and so we are fine. we have 95% of our people on broadband. 5% do not. they are in my district. the stimulus fund is not going to them. that is what works people up. 95% of us have it. it is the private sector that throws it out. we want to take over another sixth of the economy through moving this whole information age from title i to title ii? we're not going to get a surprise from the chairman this time because it is here. some commentators have suggested a second approach in which the fcc would implement certain plan recommendations under its title ii authority. let us have this hearing. let us have this debate. the system is working. what is not working is in rural america. we spend billions of dollars and the money is not going there. we have the stimulus rollout. we are overbuilding places th

in singapore, he'll meet with senior government, foreign affairs, and defense officials.ala lumpur, he'll meet with malaysian officials and hold a town meeting with the american embassy staff there. in vientiane, he will meet with senior laotian government officials and attend the u.s.-lao comprehensive bilateral dialogue. he will also meet with representatives of the mekong river commission. in jakarta, he will have meetings with asean permanent representatives for discussions on u.s.-asean relations, as well as senior indonesian government officials, with senior thai foreign affairs, security, and economic officials. in addition to meeting with them, he will also make remarks on u.s.-thai relations at chulalongkorn university. and of course, he will finish up in tokyo, will meet with senior japanese officials. the secretary is now in guatemala on the final stop of her trip to throughout the central and southern region. she is currently having lunch with central american leaders. this afternoon, she'll meet with salvadoran president funes. earlier today, she met with gua

singapore, for example, is highly transparent, in that it post information almost right away from theounces releases, changes in status, and renewals of charges. that allows researchers to have a pretty good sense of at least the output of this program. my focus is more on the front- end, how people radicalized. part of what i have studied in that regard is the role of ideology in de-radicalization. marisa and i are on the same page that ideology is certainly not the only driving factor of what brings people to terrorism. there are multiple push factors, as well as pull factors. these are things like discrimination, anger over foreign policy and the like. likewise, there are certain pull factors, which might draw someone towards terrorism. astonishingly, to me, within this area, there is a question over whether ideology plays any role at all. there are some researchers that strongly argue that it doesn't. a large part of a study that cully held up deals with the question of quantitative analysis. it looks at things we can measure externally that link people's radicalization specifical

country and not a state -- a country and not a state, we would rank second in the world next to singapore in math scores. do good schools get reported very often? not very often. bad news travels around the world before good news gets to choose on. we ought to spend a day talking about the good news in education and spent some time as well addressing the challenges because there are some difficulties that we need to stress. i'm not going to vote for the voucher amendment. i don't think it's the right choice. i believe the right choice is to strengthen public education, address the challenges of public education. we can do that. our parents did it. our grandparents did it. and we can have the same kind of impact on students that they did. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i ask consent to speak in morning business for up to 25 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: madam president, last thursday the bankruptcy examiner for lehman brothers released a 2,200 page report for the demise of the f

we've got to go and look at what a singapore and south korea does on teaching. maybe we are to create five academies of teaching at which we guarantee a job to the best and brightest that go into. we pay them while they are there, and we require absolutely restrictive admissions come and we set a standard, you know, for what teachers can be. the quality of teaching is probably what will save us in education to. >> anybody else's? >> thank you. i'd like to footnote voice comments. into a specific area that pertains to a violent background. there been a number of studies that show that 50 to 85 percent of the increase in the gross domestic product over the last 50 years have been from advances in science and technology. is likely to be even more in the years ahead because of the pace, acceleration in those fields. today if you're a fifth through eighth grader, u.s. public school, there's a 69 percent chance that your math teacher has neither a degree or a certificate in math. there's a 93 percent chance of physical science teacher has neither a degree nor certific

i think it was great excitement and anticipation when we were at the summit last fall in singapore and president obama announced that the united states would move forward toward crafting an aspirational 21st century agreement that will guarantee american exporters access to this very dynamic market. many of you know that i'm speaking about the transpacific partnership. and we have begun our consultation was congress. we have begun our consultations with stakeholders. i see many of our friends here representing a number of industry that is have been engaged with the ambassador, and we thank you very much for your input. during our initial round of negotiations, we will focus on how we can maximize export opportunities for small to medium-sized businesses. what we can do to promote innovation and competitiveness. also what we can do to promote regulatory coherence and make it easier for americans to export throughout the asia pacific region. we are also working to expand trade opportunities through other seeks in this important region. one of which is the asia pacific economic cooperatio

some say that if you do, our companies will lose to singapore or hong kong.id not see any big source of revenue there. and even on a fairly innocuous tax change, the prospects are bad. hedge funds can pay 15% capital gains rate rather than the top rate of 35%. that seems to have stalled, as well. when i look at other tax increase issues, a surtax on the bridge, no way. any kind of tax on people making below $200,000, i am sure larry summers and the economic advisors in private look at this group. the people who make 100 to thousand dollars or $160,000, that is the mother lode. does he want to break a campaign promise that he would not go below 200,000 on individuals? if he breaks that promise, he could separate the same fate as president bush who broke attacks promised and served only one term. not only to why not see new taxes to deal with the deficit, as we come to the end of this year, do we extend the bush tax cuts for everybody? i would have said one year ago it was not deny% that it would expire -- i would say it was 99% that it would expire. it is prob

we have a situation where a single trader in singapore can bring down one of london's most venerable banks where the russians' value of the ruble can undo america's best-known hedge fund. we have a situation where america's misdeeds in subprime mortgages can help put iceland into bankruptcy. not long ago i was on easter island. i talked to a gentleman selling carvings. he said his family was in trouble. business was bad because fellows living in caves in afghanistan had blown up a building in america and the tourists weren't coming to easter island. indeed, it is a global marketplace today. in this marketplace, americans are going to have to be able to compete for jobs, not just with the neighbors across town but with the neighbors across the globe and that's going to be a huge challenge for us. and we have seen already the impact of 17%, if you will, unemployment rate. we could find that that's atypical of the future if we don't get on a different path than we're on today. how do we compete in the world ahead? there are a number of parameters to that contribute to that. there's no o

if you were to study what happens in singapore, with portability of health care and the portability ofening the ability to create a robust economic and job creation environment. >> dr. hassett, did you have a perspective? >> thank you. i understand that the political clock and the economic clock are sometimes in harmony and sometimes are not. i understand why health care was addressed this year, but i agree that it was probably the wrong time and that health care is probably best folded into the consolidation -- we need to build a program of fiscal consolidation, and it will not work without addressing health care. many of the facts are long-term objectives. those facts are unassailable. i would like to make one last aside about corporate tax issues. you are correct that if we look at corporate taxes in the u.s. that the actual number -- the average tax the firm will pay is not the highest on earth. it is the corporate tax rate that is. it is because of this laffer curve in the data. these companies move their profits into low tax environments. the move their profits around to reduce t

high performing, how they do that, there is a very tight relationship between -- i have visited singapore and went to their college education, the national institute of education. i met a physics teacher that was preparing teachers to teach the same physics, preparing to teach those people the way we teach physics when they got to the secondary school. we are this far apart in the west. with the same money, we can do a much better job. petersberg beach, florida. steven on our republican line. caller: good morning. i'd like to thank you for taking your time out for us today. guest: you're welcome. caller: and the question that i've had is we've had horrific education in the united states for the last couple decades that i know about. i believe we're currently ranksed 23rd in the world. what remedy are you taking to remedy this? guest: the call ser absolutely right. on most measures of education performance when we compare ourselves to other countries, we are 20 ds or so in the world, whether it's on reading achievement, math, high school graduation rates, college. we used to be at the top

and maybe our companies will move to singapore or hong kong.en on innocuous tax change, i think they have dropped. whereby hedge funds can pay 15% of the capital gains rate rather than the top rate of 35%. that seems to have stalled, as well. and when i look at any other tax increase options to deal with the deficit, you know, a surtax on the rich, no way. any kind of tax on people making below 200, i'm sure larry summers and obama's economic advisers in private lust after this group. you know, just adds willie stutton said he robbed banks because that's where the money is, people who make $140,000, $150,000, or $160,000, that's the mother load. but does he want to break a campaign promise that he wouldn't raise taxes for anyone making below $250,000? any families below $250,000. if he breaks that promise, i think charlie might agree with me that he could suffer the same fate as president bush the first who broke a tax promise and served only one term. so not only do i not see any new taxes to deal, i think the talk as we come to the end of thi

he is now, i believe, in singapore and will be coming back here to washington because of a change in his travel schedule. there was not enough time in his stopover in tokyo for meetings with the japanese government. so those meetings will be rescheduled. ambassador robert king, a special envoy for north korean and human rights issues is in geneva today to participate in the human rights council's 13th session. he will urge countries to support the resolution on the situation of human rights in the dprk, as well as meet with u.n. special repertoire. and a number of you have asked, you know, for a period of time about the status of an american in pyongyang, and we can confirm march 14, the dprk granted the swedish embassy access to detained u.s. citizens. [inaudible] >> know, he's back in the states. he's back in the united states. this is another individual. we're not at liberty to disclose his name. >> it's a key? >> just to get the pronoun right. [laughter] >> but finally, obviously we will ask the secretary the secretary pledged worked tirelessly with mayors can afford to bring the

sense anybody wanting to go after that, and a lot of lobbyists have said, maybe if we will move to singapore or hong kong. i do not see anything source of revenues there. even fairly innocuous change i think has dropped. carried interested, were by hedge funds can carry 15% rather than 35%. that seems to have -- seems to have stalled as well. when i look at the deficit, a surtax on the rich -- no way. any tax on people making below 200 -- i am sure larry summers and obama [pause] economic advisor is in private lust after the screw. -- larry summers and obama's economic advisors in private lost after this in group, but does he want to make a promise he would not raise taxes for anyone making the low to hunter 50? if he makes that promise, charlie -- who make the low 250. if he makes that promise, he would make the mistake of george bush, who serve only one term. i think as we come to the end of this year, the question will be do we extend the bush tax cut for everyone? i would say it was 99% that it would expire by the end of this year. it is still probably 70-30. i think they will be allowed

i think it was great excitement and anticipation when we were at the summit last fall in singapore and president obama announced that the united states would move forward toward crafting an aspirational 21st century agreement that will guarantee american exporters access to this very dynamic market. many of you know that i'm speaking about the transpacific partnership. and we have begun our consultation was congress. we have begun our consultations with stakeholders. i see many of our friends here representing a number of industry that is have been engaged with the ambassador, and we thank you very much for your input. during our initial round of negotiations, we will focus on how we can maximize export opportunities for small to medium-sized businesses. what we can do to promote innovation and competitiveness. also what we can do to promote regulatory coherence and make it easier for americans to export throughout the asia pacific region. we are also working to expand trade opportunities through other seeks in this important region. one of which is the asia pacific economic cooperatio

lichtenstein, monaco bahrain, south korea, iceland, singapore, st. kitts?ryone in the top 20 -- we can fit the 25 in the continental united states. we have to get off comparing as -- comparing apples to oranges. it is like saying the city of new york has it and so we are fine. we have 95% of our people on broadband. 5% do not. they are in my district. the stimulus fund is not going to them. that is what works people up. 95% of us have it. it is the private sector that throws it out. we want to take over another sixth of the economy through moving this whole information age from title i to title ii? we're not going to get a surprise from the chairman this time because it is here. some commentators have suggested a second approach in which the fcc would implement certain plan recommendations under its title ii authority. let us have this hearing. let us have this debate. the system is working. what is not working is in rural america. we spend billions of dollars and the money is not going there. we have the stimulus rollout. we are overbuilding places that h

he said i'm going to china, singapore, and he said what i'm trying to do with my company, we're trying to move our jobs from the united states to asian locations and save some money in the production of these products that we make. so i'm going out now to thailand and singapore and china to scout out locations for our new manufacturing plants in asia because we're going to move our jobs. i was sitting next to this guy thinking, you know, there will be hundreds and hundreds of american workers who that morning instead of getting on an airplane, as he and i did, they're going to a manufacturing plant somewhere to make a product for his company, but they don't know yet that he is on an airplane designed to try to find a way of how to move their job to singapore or to china or to thailand, and isn't that a shame. now, some will listen to this and say yeah, yeah, that's just protectionism. listen, closing a tax break that rewards people from moving jobs overseas isn't protectionism. keeping that tax break open is, in my judgment, ignorance. standing up for fair play and standing up for amer