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Tag associated with the other 2% for people who as the president said throughout his campaign dont need them and werent asking for them and as you know and as we all know we didnt just walk into an economic crisis and financial crisis but also a fiscal crisis over the ten years between 2000 and -- over the eight years between 2000 and 2008 or 2001 to 2009. you saw the $237 billion clinton surplus turn into a deficit by the policies of the last administration. so we have a problem. we know we hav...

President bush and the g.o.p. for the currently problems that were in, take a listen. >> keep in mind, when al gore left the white house, he was kind enough to leave george bush a check for $237 billion surplus for that year, with a projected surplus of 5 trillion dollars over the next ten yearsment they waged two wars, one necessary and one not. without paying for one single penny of those wars. >> look, folks, in addition, we inherited a foreign policy that was in disarray. with doubts about o...

Watching over our financial institutions and companies are scared because they dont know either how it is going to affect them and therefore how it affects you. if it hurts the banks, they pass it on to the consumer. joe biden said we dont know. it will take time and lot more government regulation. >> there seems to be agreement that the government could take control of the next leman brothers issue. the government could come in and try to stave off that massive infection for the could you want ...

We put people to work. we had the economy booming. we left a surplus for george bush when he came to office, a surplus of $237 billion. >> senator, in all of your years, decades i might add in the congress in, the senate, to your knowledge, has the democratic party ever filibustered a jobs bill the way the republicans are now? >> never. i can unequivocally tell you weve never done that. im telling you, these republicans, theyre saying look, we cant have unemployment benefits because it increases...

Remember, what was the budget surplus, remember that record, when 2001 when liu left the job at omb. $237 billion big puns and thats a surplus under clinton as in money saved, not spent. jack lius $237 billion budget cred, seems like only yesterday, big number. up next, when white house press secretary robert gibbs said the democrats could lose the hard he may have been touting his own theory. what gibbs said may be to real support. youre watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪ [ male announc...

President obama announced his new budget director. lou did the job under president clinton. what was the budget surplus in 2001? remember that word? surplus in 2001 when he left the office. $237 billion. as in money saved, not spent. it seems like only yesterday, big number. >> when robert gibbs said the democrats could lose the house this year, he may have been sounding the alarm to his own party. but it has republicans feeling giddy. how both sides will use what gibbs said to rally support. th...

President obama announced jack liu, what a great job, would be his new budget director. remember, what was the budget surplus, remember that record, when 2001 when liu left the job at omb. $237 billion big puns and thats a surplus under clinton as in money saved, not spent. jack lius $237 billion budget cred, seems like only yesterday, big number. up next, when white house press secretary robert gibbs said the democrats could lose the hard he may have been touting his own theory. what gibbs said...

Rick: new questions about president obama continuing to focus on how he inherited the recession and other things from the bush. the president pounding home that theme during a visit to wisconsin. >> even when the economy was growing, it wasnt growing for you. and for all the parties moralizing about fiscal discipline, because it is true that part of what we inherited is a real significant problem in terms of spending at the federal level, the economic policies they put in place turned a $237 bil...

Oil and gas companies were basically allowed to fill out their own safety inspection forms. tax breaks led to little more than sluggish growth. a shrinking middle class, your paychecks, flat lined. wages and incomes did not go up, even when the economy was growing. it wasnt growing for you. and for all the parties moralizing about fiscal discipline, because it is true that part of what we inherited was spending at the federal level. the economic policies they put in place turned a $237 billion s...

Other people? >> andrea: who doesnt want to be rich? that has always been the american dream. if you keep giving people things, like i know you rail on greece, people take it. that is how he is hoping to get re-elected. >> bob: there is not a single program he is talking about that had to do with obama. not one. social security, medicare -- >> andrea: what did obama do? entitle. crunch that no one wants to talk about, including barack obama, except maybe paul ryan an congressional republicans, h...