right decisions, we ve recovered 80% of what we lost in the bush recession. you talk about the hyperinflation and medicare medicaid, that s what the affordable care act was about. that s why the president did that. but first of all, we re not going to be able to grow out of our problems that we re facing with medicare and medicaid. we re just not. the numbers show that you agree with that right? wait a minute. that cbo also says though that even the affordable care act is not going to stop the ticking demographic time bomb. but the common platform that we now have with the affordable care act, if the states step up allows us to bend down that cost curve so we can invest in education, can invest in making college more affordable, can invest i have to ask you this question because people have said you re talking about possibly thinking about running four years from now. you do understand that people are going to the answer must be yes. that wealthier people are going
bob: bills in the united states congress and greg: the employment would be worse. everybody talked about how the people are leaving the labor force, going to social security or back to school. if it had the same participation in 2009, the numbers would be at 11.4 yes, so in fact, his numbers are like dana wearing lifts. if you took the lifts out, it would be far smaller. eric: what is with the every month there is a revision? the 20,000 jobs came out of the economy from june. meanwhile, that was two months ago. here is what happened. the labor department puts up the number. it looks okay. here, but the real number is down here. they don t tell you about it. dana: in the bush years it was the other way. they d be revised upward. eric: better. dana: yeah. so june would have been better than originally reported. why is it this way? why can t we get better stats on this. bob, cansky you one thing?
bob: bills in the united states congress and greg: the employment would be worse. everybody talked about how the people are leaving the labor force, going to social security or back to school. if it had the same participation in 2009, the numbers would be at 11.4 yes, so in fact, his numbers are like dana wearing lifts. if you took the lifts out, it would be far smaller. eric: what is with the every month there is a revision? the 20,000 jobs came out of the economy from june. meanwhile, that was two months ago. here is what happened. the labor department puts up the number. it looks okay. here, but the real number is down here. they don t tell you about it. dana: in the bush years it was the other way. they d be revised upward. eric: better. dana: yeah. so june would have been better than originally reported. why is it this way? why can t we get better stats on this. bob, cansky you one thing?
creating jobs rather than losing them. but you said we have not recovered all that we lost in the bush recession. that s why we need to continue to move forward. megyn: don t you love politicians? brad blakeman is here, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush, and dick harpootlian is here in charlotte, chairman of south carolina s democratic party. it s not north carolina, but it s south carolina. and welcome back to the program, both of you. so let me start with you on that, dick. don t you love politicians? it s like they don t care that there s videotape and that we have the tape from 24 hours earlier. are you better off than four years ago? no. twenty-four hours later, of course we are. i think we know happened in the interim, do we not? i think it s the silly season. megyn, it s important to understand, i think what all of them said is accurate, and that is that the country is better off now than it was four years ago. we re moving in the right direction.
sign on the dotted line. well, we did have that back, from 2001 to 2009 with dick cheney. and though they are very different figures on the surface, the comparison between paul ryan and dick cheney is not an inappropriate one. just as dick cheney came up initially as an aide and a washington hanger-on, went into congress, and then moved himself ultimately into the vice presidency, paul ryan is a washington hanger-on. he s been in washington for the better part of 25 years, as a congressional aide, as a senate aide, as a think tank member, and then as a member of congress. he is not of the midwest in most senses. he really somebody who spent his entire adult life in and around congress. that, as with cheney, in the bush administration, would make him a very powerful figure. because mitt romney would arrive in washington as someone who s never really worked much with congress, and here he d have a vice president who could go up