April 6th, 2012

DNC Chair: Romney does not have a ‘track record of job creation;’ focuses on millionaires, billionaires

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) joins Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien to discuss jobs report, President Obama’s role in the economic recovery and Mitt Romney.

Wasserman Schultz says, “Soledad, there’s been a pretty significant increase in health care related jobs which are also high paying. I mean, we need to make sure that we continue the — building the depth and breadth of the recovery. President Obama has been able to, through investments in our economy, through investments in green energy-related jobs, create those kind of jobs that are a meaningful salary that can help the middle class and working families grow their opportunities. But, you know, that’s compared to Mitt Romney and the Republicans whose focus has been to make sure that millionaires and billionaires get more and more of the tax breaks that corporate America, you know, gets showered with largess and that somehow it’s all going to trickle down.”

When O’Brien shows a clip of Romney saying that the recovery is slower than it needed to be, Wasserman Schultz responds, “This from the governor, a former governor of Massachusetts, whose state was 47th out of 50 in job creation during the last recession.  I mean this is not a man with a track record of job creation.  When he was head of Bain Capital, his responsibility was to take apart companies, break them up and sell off the pieces for significant profit.  When he was governor of Massachusetts and the only opportunity he had to be a public policy role, his state was not in very good shape.  They had the second lowest job creation in the country.  And so this is not a person with a track record that you can write home about.  So he certainly is not one to be talking about a recovery that should have been bigger.”

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs weekday mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.