say it s about the same. governor mitt romney hammered president obama on the economy during a recent campaign stop in jacksonville. listen. he said this, he said right here on election eve in jacksonville, he said i m going to go through the federal budget line by line [inaudible conversations] ending programs that we don t these and making the ones we do need work better and cost less. has he honored that promise? no! no, he sure has not. jon: so is media coverage reflecting americans concerns? let s bring in judith miller, a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and fox news contributor, also with us, kirsten powers, a columnist for the daily beast, and a fox news contributor. kirsten, when you look at the poll numbers we had up earlier, it was ronald reagan who won the election by asking the question, are you better off than you were
paid back. obama s top economic adviser, we joke during this time. you know, it is fine to haircut, big bond holders. i they fire their executives. when we talk about banks, i.q. falls 50 points. we suddenly can t do all these things that are perfectly normal when we talk about auto companies. you know, i think that was probably true. amazing thing, republican primary, you often hear the big problem they have with the auto bailout it was would too nice to the unions and gave everybody a bailout. meanwhile, wall street regulation, repeal dodd/frank and sarbanes/oxley. the degree to which folks feel wall street got treat today harshly in this period, strikes me as maze. given the amount of information we didn t even have at the time. congress didn t know about these secret front lending programs. you look at the data, take bank of america. 2007 to 2010 bank of america had an average daily balance of $20
from every other bill it was included in this year. we don t know if shirley sherrod caused the rnc to sign up the culprit as its headliner, and it doesn t appear that last week s fake scandal was what caused the senate to strip restitution for victims of actual real life documented discrimination from the appropriations bill. it s just that as the dust clears from last week s collective frenzy, take a look at the score. conservative con artist one, victims of real world racial discrimination, zero. joining us now is john boyd jr., founder and president of the national black farmers association, himself a farmer in virginia. mr. boyd, thank you for your time. thank you, chris, for having me tonight. let s just start with the basics. i think it s pretty safe to say most people really don t know that much about the class action discrimination lawsuit against the usda or the history of racial discrimination in the agency. what was at issue in the lawsuit and the settlement? well, th
included in this year. we don t know if shirley sherrod caused the rnc to sign up the culprit as its headliner, and it doesn t appear that last week s fake scandal was what caused the senate to strip it from the real-life documented discrimination from the appropriations bill. it s just that as the dust clears from last week s collective frenzy, take a look at the score. conservative conartist one, victims of real world racial discrimination, zero. joining us now is john boyd jr., founder and president of the national black farmers association, himself a farm ner virginia. mr. boyd, thank you for your time. thank you, chris, for having me tonight. let s just start with the basics. i think it s pretty safe to say most people really don t know that much about the class action discrimination lawsuit against the usda or the history of racial discrimination in the agency. what was at issue in the lawsuit and the settlement? well, the issue was about black farmers being descriminated,
so, all these steps have helped. they re going to help. but i believe we ve got to do even more to give our small businesses a boost. and maybe the single most important thing we can do right now is to help ensure that credit-worthy small business owners can get the capital that they need. so, in my state of the union address, i called for a $30 billion small business lending fund. that would help increase the flow of credit to small companies that were hit hard by the decline in lending that followed the financial crisis. and last week, i sent congress this legislation, which now includes a new state small business credit initiative, an initiative that will help expand lending for small businesses and manufacturers at a time whenfal states to cut back on vitally important lending programs, and i ve asked to work with us to extend and enhance sba programs that have helped small business owners get loans so they can create more jobs. that s our small business