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About it. when you listen to the things stevie said in his interview and the things ramel said, there are many similarities. >> john zarrella, thank you so, so much. on the one-year anniversary of the stimulus act being signed into law, president obama about to give us his thoughts live and well take you there. plus we crunch the numbers, thee let kael versus the reality when it comes to the american recovery and reinvestment act.

Without the recovery act. theyll be doing the work that america needs done to stay competitive in the global economy. no area is this more important than in energy. because of the recovery act, we have finally jump started the clean energy industry in america and made possible 200,000 jobs in the clean energy and construction sectors. just take one example. consider the investment that we have made in the kind of batteries used in hybrid and electric cars. youve heard about these. before the rec...

And the first time home buyer credit our family was able to by our first home. even though the economy has been tough on many, it has actually helped us. we are very lucky. to my twitter page, this is more what were seeing. were seeing a lot more complaints. even bushs checks helped me more than this. lets show how you can weigh in. youve got the blogs, cnn.com/josh or kyra, also facebook and twitter, josh levs cnn. i will tell you on balance, a lot more people are saying they dont feel in their...

Infrastructure. that kind of economy requires us to consume less and produce more. import less and export more. instead of sending jobs over seas, we need to send more products overseas that are made by american workers and american business. we need to train our workers for those jobs with new skills and a world class education. other countries already realize this. theyre putting more emphasis on math and science, theyre building high-speed railroads and expanding broadband. theyre making seri...

A plant that will have thousands of construction jobs and 800 permanent jobs in days to come. theres the manufacture in philadelphia who makes energy-efficient windows. he used to be skeptical about the recovery act until he had to add two more shifts just to keep up with the new business its created. and blake, his business is based in boulder, colorado. one year ago blake gave us a tour of one of his companys solar installations on top of a museum in denver right before i signed the recovery a...

Economy and for the american people. one year later, it is largely thanks to the recovery act that a second depression is no longer a possibility. its one of the main reasons the economy has gone from shrinking by 6% to growing at about 6%. this morning we learned that manufacturing production posted a strong gain. so far the recovery act is responsible for the jobs of about two million americans who would otherwise be unemployed. these arent just our numbers, these are the estimates of independ...

Businesses are the engines of job creation in this country, they always will be. but during a recession when businesses pull back and people stop spending, what government can do is provide a temporary boost that puts money in peoples pockets and keeps workers on the job, cuts taxes for small businesses, generates more demand, gives confidence to entrepreneurs that maybe they dont have to cut back right now, maybe they can hold steady in their plans and in their dreams. thats exactly what weve b...

Lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter. its one thing to call a pay raise a job created or saved. its quite another to call the devastation that a homicide bomber can inflict a man-made disaster. and i just say come on, washington, if nowhere else, national security, thats one place where you got to call it like it is. how is that hopy changey stuff working out for you? >> sarah palin covered the political landscape last night from taxes to terrorism, from national security to t...

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