Rahm Emanuel

He gets AmeriCorps, doesn't get it as big as he wants, compromises, etc.

John McCain...

and Lindsey Graham come to Chicago in the Obama transition.

One of the things that, and we have a meeting there, so President-elect Obama, Senator McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham, and myself, there's a commitment that is we're dealing with the auto industry, we're dealing with the financial,

We will do a rewrite of both AmeriCorps National Service and Peace Corps.

And if you get past Lilly Ledbetter, the Children's Health, the Recovery of the Budget, and obviously Kennedy's ill, so there's an interest, there's a bigger vote, to fulfill the pledge that President-elect Obama, and they shook on it.

And that becomes in the spring of 09, the president signs into law and we pass and a significant expansion of both AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps National Service legislation.

But if you go back to Clinton, it was cut down.

You know, those were the days it was coming out of a series of things.

But he still got AmeriCorps done.

Yeah.

Not as big as he wanted.

Well, here's the thing.

I actually think one of the big problems facing the country is that our entire tax code is now focused on wealth preservation, not wealth creation.

When you really rip, take Mitt Romney, and he writes this op-ed, Tax Me More.

But when you take each of the pieces and components that he talks about,

The whole, I don't mean to get technical, step up.

It's about preserving wealth.

It's not about creating wealth.

It's about passing out to another generation so you never pay taxes.