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>> what you hear from the white house and congress, tax millionaires in some fashion or another, but dont hear a coherent plan for how to deal with the fact that corporations are sitting on profits and that nothing or very little is getting into the mainstream economy and certainly not into employment. the jobs bill wont move quickly enough to solve the anger of the people in the streets. >> not only that, andrea, but it only deals with next years problem or the year after that, which is necessa...

workers. his take on the gop field. >> if they were both on the particular, it would be spectacular. they could focus on the economy. >> and the former scouts love for his hog. this is "piers morgan tonight." when arianna huffington talks, people tend to listen. shes number 31 of forbess list. she is the author of third world america, how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream. and arianna joins me now. knowing you, i would imagine youre a bit ...

walker, his showdown with union workers. his take on the gop field. >> if they were both on the particular, it would be spectacular. they could focus on the economy. >> and the former scouts love for his hog. this is "piers morgan tonight." when arianna huffington talks, people tend to listen. shes number 31 of forbess list. she is the author of third world america, how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream. and arianna joins me now. knowing y...

Gas prices. this isnt helping our recovery. >> well, if i understood the president, senator, i think what he said was that the oil reserve was for when supplies are disrupted. this is not a supply problem. this is a demand problem. you want him to use that reserve to bring down gas prices, oil pries? >> im worried if we dont use the reserve, our economic recovery will stall and fall backwards. we dont need to see unemployment figures going up. secondly, lets not overlook the obvious. were still ...

Feel about the unemployed, why dont they sell some stocks. maybe they can take their art collection and sell it off to the auctioneer. maybe they can sell one of their yachts. he is marking the republicans as -- mock being the republicans as rich. they are making this some sort of a class war fair is that a strategy? >> i think what youre hearing from the obama white house they have a political problem in trying to eveninger skwraoeus -- energize their base. some of it is going to be to try to a...

I think he truly understands the need for jobs. were trying to get everybody to look at the scale right now. remember what happened in japan. in the 90s, they would spend a little bit. when things got -- they got a few green shoots around the edge, they would stop spending. that went on for a whole decade. >> you saw the size of the deficit in his proposed budget. that kind of deficit environment, how do you get them to buy off on as large a program as youre talking? >> first of all, we dont hav...

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And there are problems with refineries in the united states. problems seem to have gone away. they could come back. and now the gas prices going below $3 a gallon, that is back to december 2010. for each penny it goes down consumers get $1 billion that could really help the economy. >>shepard: and money we are not sending to people overseas. the price of oil was over $100 a barrel at one point. >>gerri: not anymore. we are way off. so, we had a dollar price increase today because of what is goin...