We're trying to help induce treating employees to things in their compensation package that they really need, things like health care, child care and education and training, which I think are double-header winners. The story I tell on that score is Gordon Binder at Amgen, the big biotech firm out in California. He said his wife kept badgering him to have child care on-site. She finally convinced him to do it. If you could see the faces of the workers as they come back from lunch with their kids, you would understand how much more productive, how much more enthusiastic they are about throwing themselves into their job.
Tax breaks are part of it.
We have proposals for trying to change accounting rules so that companies get more financial credit for investing in people and performance, paying for productivity. A lot of things you've been saying this year have put some distance between you and the White House. I want to play as constructive a role as I can in helping the country do that. Unfortunately, you always get into a situation where some in the media say the only reason this position is being taken is because of some future possible race. I just reject that thinking.