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Not forget, house democrats gave president obama every dollar, every tax hike, every stimulus program and every government take over that he asked for. one thing that the american people asked the democrats to do was to say no and yet they never did. >> do you care to respond to mr. boehner? >> well, i dont know if the american people ever asked them to say no. how do you say no to a family with a child with diabetes and cant get health care? thats the republican agenda to say no to that family....

Critique for this reason. the white house and the president have done events for the dccc as many as they have done for the senate committee. and that, of course, helps all of us collectively. the vice president of the united states, chris biden, chris crossing this country in support of democratic candidates and out there helping publicize the important benefits of the economic stimulus program, in particular congressional districts. our sense is that the white house is fully engaged. they know...

Over the pouring of the cement here, vice president joe biden and the chair of the council of economic advisers, christina romer held an event today to announce that the stimulus program has created more than -- saved and created more than 3 million jobs so far and is on track to add another half million by the end of the year which they say delivers on its promise. republicans say with 8 million people still out of work this is hardly the summer of recovery that the white house had hoped for. r...

Hours! >> amphetamine. i can get you some. iled find a housewife in the midwest. >> better for him. >> no, its not. >> but the problem is we shoved a trillion dollars through the federal bureaucracy that wasnt efficient. >> stimulus program was a cover-up for what would happen to our economy. >> wouldnt it be a lot more efficient to get the money directly to the businesses in forms of tax incentives? >> yes. >> to hire new people. >> leo hendry has done incredible job. forget me. >> i dont think...

The economy. only 30% say it has helped. so why isnt the administration listening to the people of america? joining us right now for a fair and balanced debate, michael tanner, economist and senior fellow and christian weller, senior fellow for the center for american progress. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you very much for having me. >> the president just said were on right track. you say the president is wrong on that. >> well, look, weve had three separate stimulus packages so fa...

Providing a much-needed lifeline for hundreds of thousands of americans looking for work and now these temporary jobs are ending. unemployment remains stubbornly high despite the presidents stimulus program. so theres a lot going on. steve centanni is live for us in washington. steve, tell us a little bit about whats different this year, about the census employment picture? >> reporter: well, jennifer, one thing are no hurry to leave their jobs with the census. in the past the census employees o...

United states. our banks were much better regulated. we didnt let them do whatever they want. there were far fewer foreclosures, a far smaller hole for people to dig their way out of. .commodities such as forestry and mining as well as a manufacturing economy. so one of the things that canada was able to do was to start the work their way out of it. because canada has a parliamentary system where theres right now a minority government, the two progressive governments have been able to push the c...

Collectively and more layoffs to come at the state level. this is the big debate on the democratic side which allows more room for republicans to just, you know, put their hands up and say, you know, we got to stand in the way of these guys. >> mort? >> how do the democrats get around the fact that they put forth $800 billion stimulus program and promise that the unemployment rate would in the get beyond 8% only to find here we are a year later the unemployment rate is way beyond 8%. the $800 bi...

Really in the worst shape we have had since the great depression and they have gotten significantly worse since the president has come into office and his stimulus program has had much less of an effect considering the fact that we spent over $800 billion its why the country is opposed to spending more money even though we might need it on another stimulus plan, which eincidentally would have been needed if we had done the first stimulus plan correctly. there is a real disappointment in what the...

Failed to deliver on? >> i can start off with the stimulus program. and this is something i wrote at the time and im not just making it up at this point and you should know that i supported the president. i thought the stimulus program was not only inadequate, but even worse it was misdirectsmis and therefore created very few jobs. here we are standing about a year and a half later and we have an unemployment rate thats really around 10% and the real unemployment rate is closer to 17%. we have c...