don t go back to work. what we need to have them do is take the jobs that are entry level jobs, build up seniority but have a safety net rather than just saying you either get unemployment or you don t. and then they have to make the choice because the unemployment actually pays more than the job they can get. stuart: we ve got to make very tough choices and make them very quickly. now, senator reid, he s led, if i may say so, led the spending charge. he s been out front, spend, spend, spend. are you exactly on the other side of the fence saying cut, cut, cut, get control of spending? get is under control. are you die met rick leo posed? that s a pretty good characterization and the reason is we know government doesn t make jobs. all that harry reid has done is extend unemployment which
markets don t care about deficits but i do. i don t want to see my country go the way of greece and if you keep spending that s where we re headed. there s two things, our short term deficit we have as a result of our recession, that s the reason we have a deficit is because we have a great big ole recession. markets aren t concerned about that. even dennis hawks realize we have to spend in recession to generate recovery. what they re concerned about are long term structural deficits. you spent a trillion dollar, virtually a trillion dollars. it was a stimulus plan that did not work as advertised. now, it it has worked as advertised. did not. it did not keep the unemployment at 8%, it went to 10% and is rising. it did not work as advertised. now you want to spend some more money, and add to the deficit, a report from the cbo showed we re galloping towards a greeklike situation. with all due respect this is irresponsible. with all due respect your wrong on it not w