(会員）11月01日(月曜日) 23:00 - Obama Intvw. Lesson 5
O: Well, here's what happened. We had the worst financial crisis
since "The Great Depression." We could be growing even faster than we
have, if Governor Romney's allies in Congress would move on some of the things
we've recommended.
I'll give you an example on housing. Right now, we could make sure
that families whose homes are underwater -- where they own more than their
mortgage. Or or owe more than their house is worth. If they refinance,
typically they'd get 3,000 bucks in their pockets each year. That's $3,000
they're spending or $3,000 dollars that they're putting back into equity in
their home. Housing market would be helped. Employment would be helped. Even
Governor Romney's own advisor says this is a good idea and yet Governor Romney
opposes it so...
J: Don't you have a HAMP program? Don't you have...? Wasn't 50
billion dollars set aside for HAMP? And only 5 and a half billion has been
used?
O: Actually, what's happened is we've had 5 million
that have already, we've seen foreclosures prevented. We have a
settlement with the banks that provides another 25 billion dollars to help the
housing market. But the central question is: there are a whole bunch of things
that we can do right now that will make the recovery even stronger, put more
folks back to work. When you look at what we did with the auto industry, that's
not the only industry where manufacturing can take root back in the United
States again. We've got a whole bunch of cities where you've got workers who
are trained in machinery and advanced manufacturing and companies are starting
to look at maybe we insource instead of outsource. But we're going to have to
change the tax code to make sure that companies have a strong incentive to do
that.
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