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In december, the economy has not gotten appreciably better. why not? temporary measures dont have a permanent impact. so rather than investing or purchasing a new car or whatever, they are using it to pay down their credit card deb, squirrel it away. look, this is not going to work. i have to tell you, there is a vote today, or excuse me, yesterday in congress, on this, in the senate, on the presidents measure. hes now taking the stimulus 2 measure and breaking it up and sending it to the congre...

Economy weakened so that this president and democrats lose, and only care about the next election. >> both sides are going like this. how do we get past the blame game. >> that illustrates the point, that kind of demagoguic spin, my colleague sounds like partisan democrats. let back up a second. stimulus 1 did not work. a trillion dollars down the drain that did not put anybody back to work, we have 27 million americans unemployed. so, now were coming with stimulus 2, cant get the senate democra...

Pelosi and president obama? >> a little family feud, david. it is interesting. really coming to light now that the speaker is upset with the white house because she is forced a lot of vulnerable members to make tough votes. had to be on the record of climate change and had to go on the health care bill and the one that is really upset her is the jobs bill. before the house left in 2009 she passed $154 billion jobs bill. the republicans called it son of stimulus, stimulus 2, all right? pelosi wor...

Care what color the jobs are. >> lets get back to weeds, please. first of all, you have to have a few pot studies if the government legalizes it and makes money and i hope that is the path and theyll get rid of deficits and government spending is wasteful, by nature and the way they spend money is random and they are throwing it around, not like the company is spending money, looking for profits and regardless of what they do with it it is wasteful and causes, expensive jobs and he think it crea...

Many of the same types of programs as the first stimulus, and, they say the first stimulus is a failure, the white houses latest estimate says the stimulus saved or created between 1.5 and 2 million jobs, and though those numbers have been disputed. bill: rich edson live in d.c. nicely done, see you soon. martha: visitors gathering off the coast of malibu, hoping to catch a glimpse of a baby gray whale. not very small, though, bill, babies come in around 20 to 30 feet. he or she -- not sure whic...

Commodities, to be bought and sold, the fed say these companies used pit bulls and armed guards to prevent their, quote, passengers from trying to escape. companies allegedly paid up to $650, per illegal, and would drive them from houston to other major cities including new york and miami, 81 illegal immigrant, also were taken into custody. bill: and we saw the jobs number, 408,000 americans filing for first time unemployment claims a week ago. about 20,000 higher and the job numbers continue to...

Do you know theyll raise taxes next year, what do you do this year? you accelerate all of the income you possibly canoe this ye, intr and when 2011 comes, it will fall off the cliff, the exact opposite of the mistake reagan made in 19 81 and delaying tax cuts and it caused recession in 1982, 1982 and the biggest boom ever in 1983-84 and the president will have tax increases, and it will have the economy looking better than it should and then well get the train wreck -- >> the argument you make, ...

Not going anywhere in the united states congress. >> luke, thank you so much for your -- for the reporting. can i just make one clarification with you, luke, before i let you go. >> yes, sir. >> around here on "the dylan ratigan show" we like to call it rigged trade. you mentioned it as free trade. they havent taken my phrase up in d.c. yet? >> reporter: not as of yet, but come on here and crack some skulls on capitol hill, dylan, you would fit in quite well. hire a pr firm. >> im set up. work t...

Click on the link that reads check out your pipeline. president obama today admitted the economic recovery has been weak and he understands many people may blame him as we approach the midterm election. president obama holding his first real news conference since the spring. and remaining on the defensive for much of it appeared to observers. he claims last years 800 billion-dollar stimulus effort is working but not as well as we had all hoped. >> even though the economy is growing again and we ...

Really it has been for a while. >> bad word, frankly, since the 800 billion-dollar american recovery act failed to keep unemployment below 8% as officials here had promised. now, the president says thats because the recession was deeper than anyone thought. he said the stimulus bill actually worked because, without it, things would have been worse. >> i have no problem with people saying the president is trying to stimulate growth in hiring. isnt that what i should be doing. >> still, no one her...