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Nonanswer because the real answer will be damaging to the health care reform operation. >> when you also factor in that everyone is going to have to get insurance or be fined, you can look at that as a tax. >> yes, you can. >> $960 if you dont have it. >> it will be i.r. s. which levies that. its going to be called a tax and not a fine for legalistic reasons but the i.r. s. will levy that tax. tha theres a long list of taxes, i just gave you a partial list. >> you could go on for 17 minutes. its...

Report numbers come out because both sides lay claim to them and try to spin them one way or the other. the right is saying, hey, a lot of the jobs are temporary census workers, 48,000 of them. fewer than the amount they wanted to hire for the census and they didnt end up hiring a full amount. so, is this just pie in the sky or should we really be proud of the numbers? >> look. all i got to say if they were eight and a half million new jobs created mike gallagher would find something to complain...

Growth and that could mean dividends for investors, always a plus. also, all this action is without smaller investors betting on a rally. pooling more than 900 million from domestic stock funds a week ago and putting them most of their cash in bonds. but, dont forget, the fed plans to turn off the spigot on its easy money. the removal credit market supports could stop stocks from surging and the run on wall street depends on a recovery on main street. housing remains weak. as for the jobs market...

Last month by companies and by governments including 48,000 census workers, and thats the highest level of job growth since march of 2007, three years. companies have also, if we look at the numbers going back six months have now added workers for three out of the last six months, so thats a good sign as well. but there are, you know, still obviously we heard from some of the presidents economic advisors about concerns about how quickly we can get back to, you know, a natural normal rate, health...

Thats made the economy robust. whether it was public works projects and road building a century and a half ago, where today were dealing with human capital. and if i can make a point here, the census is about collecting data on the great human capital that are the people of the united states. theres actually gold in them there hills, keith. that data is valuable. so even looked at in republican terms, this is a very valuable thing that the census workers are doing, even if you dont want to look ...

Recorded those. >> sean: we are going to get job numbers tomorrow. we are told the numbers are going to seem like they are moving in the right direction. the government is hiring all these census workers. they are going to out to this as a victory. >> construction downs down, because you have temporary government workers with census doesnt skew the numbers up in a realistic fashion. there are so many americans who are unemployed, unemployable. >> sean: ive been very blessed that ive always had a...

Although he deliberately recorded those. >> sean: we are going to get job numbers tomorrow. we are told the numbers are going to seem like they are moving in the right direction. the government is hiring all these census workers. they are going to out to this as a victory. >> construction downs down, because you have temporary government workers with census doesnt skew the numbers up in a realistic fashion. there are so many americans who are unemployed, unemployable. >> sean: ive been very bles...

Added. the unemployment rate remains su stuck at 9.7%. lets talk about todays numbers. first of all the bright side. what do you see thats positive in todays numbers? >> reporter: well the positive part is the positive part. you know, we finally generating, you know, some fairly substantial job growth, 162,000. thats upward that theres 48,000 census workers in there. as an overall trend its clear it looks like, you know, were turning the corner and an encouraging sign. thats positive. the second...

Attempt to count or population. here are the facts. the census bureau has sent out 130 million forms to households across the nation. were told that so far fewer than half of those have come back. the effort costs more than $14 billion take a look at the states with the highest return rate so far. south dakota, north date. the lowest, texas, louisiana, mississippi, new mexico and alaska. even become a competition for some communities. the mayors in st. louis and kansas city challenging each othe...

Month of march and that will be a seed change in direction of employment in this country. now, some of those job gains could be because were hiring over a million people to do the census in the first six months of this year, some of these people could be census workers, but nonetheless that does appear now to be some degree of job creation. so look at the trend. thats the positive thing in this monday morning outlook. martha: i mean, it does raise one question, which is whether or not these are ...