sector jobs, and they are always the problem, you know, and those cuts, my friends have consequences. now according to the labor department survey, federal, state and local governments have lost this many jobs. 750,000 jobs since the start of the recovery. now, according to their household survey, that number is really closer to 950,000 jobs. now, without these cuts to the private sector, the numbers would have been different. the unemployment rate would really be sitting at 7.1% for the labor department instead of 7.7%. republicans also love to talk he entitlement reform, they can t get enough of it and what this budget thing is about. looking for ways to cut benefits like raising the eligibility age of medicare. the university of washington study shows how dangerous that could be for america s low income workers. take a look at st. john s county
republicans, well, they just love smaller government, don t they? republicans love cutting public sector jobs and they are always the problem. those cuts have consequences. according to a report, federal, state and local governments have lost this many jobs. 750,000 jobs since the start of the recovery. now, according to their household survey, that number is really closer to 950,000 jobs. without these cuts to the private sector, the numbers would be different. unemployment rate would be sitting at 7.1% for the labor department instead of 7.7%. republicans also love to talk he entitlement reform and can t get enough of it and what this budget thing is about. looking for ways to cut benefits like raising the eligibility age of medicare. the university of washington study shows how dangerous that could be for america s low income workers.
might be justified. andrea: this is on the heels of white house telling paul ryan it won t meet a budget deadline. 1300 days we still don t a budget. he is saying i ve been busy. sorry, i wouldn t get to the budget thing. as i mentioned in the a block, president obama said newtown, connecticut, was the hardest day of his presidency. we sat around for a week and not only us but others saying we need to do something. the approach i would have suggested, is to try to figure out a way to make some of this bipartisan at the outset and do the executive orders on the back end of that effort. instead he put the cart in front of the horse, now the
might be justified. andrea: this is on the heels of white house telling paul ryan it won t meet a budget deadline. 1300 days we still don t a budget. he is saying i ve been busy. sorry, i wouldn t get to the budget thing. as i mentioned in the a block, president obama said newtown, connecticut, was the hardest day of his presidency. we sat around for a week and not only us but others saying we need to do something. the approach i would have suggested, is to try to figure out a way to make some of this bipartisan at the outset and do the executive orders on the back end of that effort. instead he put the cart in front of the horse, now the
lot of the bill fufilibuster. i heard from both sides about that. and i feel i came up with a view that was more balanced than it might have otherwise been. i hope i can play that role. and that s certainly the role i hope to play. i m going to be on the rules committee, for example, to talk about things like campaign finance reform. this budget thing, the reason it s not being resolved is the hard part is left to do. there s got to be more revenues. there s got to be more significant cuts. and there s no way i spend a good deal of the campaign sort of digging into this. we re not going to grow our way out of it. there are going to be painful cuts. and i think that s why it s so hard. nobody wants to do it. here s where i agree with senator mcconnell. i think the president needs to take an affirmative step and say, look, we ve got to do something here. he keeps saying it will involve revenue and cuts. call some people together. i don t know who they are. and start working on. we ve