I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.
Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.