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The american jobs act. it means they want to help the american people. it means they want to put friends and neighbors to work. thats what this bill would do, building roads and bridges and runways. >> lets talk about the infrastructure part that will be voted on tomorrow, calls for $50 billion for projects around the country and an additional $10 billion seed money for future projects. the money would come from a surtax on incomes above $1 million. do you think this has any chance of passing co...

The infrastructure program, at this point, they are reminded to reduce the debt and make sure we have the house in order. he is saying the language on soft is out of line. when he says we need to get back to having confidence in ourselves maybe that is a call to action. >> steve? >> you are all trapped by obamas use of government projects as american greatness and emblematic of greatness. he sites the golden get a bridge and hoover dam. you talk about nasa and the government projects. the seenou...

No im asking about what we, the people, can do that will avert another recession, that will act on the economy in a way that cuts the unemployment rate, puts money in the pockets of consumers and gets this country moving again, gets business investing in products that have a market out there of american people who are able, willing and stirred to spend money. what would you do? today a columnist for the "new york times" offers us an answer. its a prescription for meeting the great malady of the ...

in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. its hard to live in the moment and make decisions. lets go back to the beginning of 2009. thats when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning ...

gulf of mexico. residents of mississippi and louisiana got short notice warnings today. get ready for tropical storm lee to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but its moving at a crawl, which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain. up to 15 inches or more are expected plus a storm surge. well get a live update on storm preparations in a few minutes. but first, todays stunner from the labor department, the country saw a net gain...

and at 3:00, well talk to general russell honore. plus fredrickas interview with tiger woods. im alina cho. see you in one hour. "your money" starts right now. im ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in ...

to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but its moving as a crawl which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain, up to 15 inches or more are expected, plus a storm surge. well get a live update. but first todays stunner from the labor department. the country saw a net gain of no jobs in august. plus no change in the unemployment rate, still 9.1%. it is the worst jobs report in a year. wall street cratered, the dow industrials, s&p a...

insurance that government would manda mandate. third you said the era of small government was over. that sounds a lot more like barack obama, if you ask me. >> shes got a record of misstating and making false statements and thats another example of that list, she says that shes fighting for these things, she fought for less government spending. we got a lot more. she led the effort against obama care, we got obama care. she led the effort against t.a.r.p. we got t.a.r.p. she said shes ...

with middle-class economic anxiety front and center, well, the early gop front runner might want to rethink this line -- governor romney is also exhibit "a" if you need any proof this week matters. saturdays iowa republican straw poll could knock a candidate or two from the race and so democratic activists are now turning up at gop events hoping to rattle the republicans who would be president. >> what are you going to do to strengthen social security, medicare and medicaid without cut...

Why are we paying for a foreign government when we in america have 9% unemployment and the general population thinks that 59% of us actually think that the economy is worse now than it was four years ago. and our quality of life has been eroded so why do we have to pay? and how are we going to pay this? were broke! what are we supposed to do? borrow the money from china? pay interest to china and give it to the egyptians? what is this? >> ill tell what you the foreign policy answer on this would...