Page 198 - Stimulus Program News Today

Out of the work and people who decided not to look nor work because the presidents stimulus program was not effective. now having spent that money, and now having spent all that money and still being in a tough spot, there are those who ti fear when the stimulus runs out and bump you get from rebuilding inventory, when it ends well go in another period of difficulty. im concerned over the short term. im very long concerned over about our prospects given what weve been doing. >> in your book you ...

That for this purpose. im sympathetic with those that say stop borrowing more money, were making a deeper hole. >> would you have made an exception which most senators did for jobless benefits. >> i was sympathetic with the bunning perspective. this was an opportunity to show were willing to pull back somewhere else, either in the stimulus program or tarp and use that to help pay for the -- to entirely pay for a relatively modest program. $15 billion, relative to tarp which was almost a trillion...

Primary for this governors race in texas. >> absolutely rick perry as governor, he has hung around long enough to have some problems. he is very much an incumbent. running for a fourth term as governor of texas. and he managed to paint kay bailey hutchenson as kay bailout hutchinson. he wrapped her for supporting the first tarp. he hung obamas stimulus program around her neck though she did not support it she voted against it and he has made her incumbent washington, the creature of gridlock and...

Deaths might have been caused after the quake from waves and tsunami that swept through the city. we are hearing about a lot of damage on the coast of chile. well follow it and bring you more if we get news from the country. new poll suggests a large nutiaer of americans not happy with the obama administration and how its handling our financial recovery. foxs ali of vn camerota has the numbers. >> its been one full year since the federal stimulus program was put to work. president obama says its...

Home on the block, either. be in line with your neighbors. if your neighbors have, you know, a kitchen -- most neighbors have a kitchen with granite marble top counters, you probably want that. if they have 2 1/2 bathrooms and you only have 1, you probably want to add. if you add extra things, youre never going to see the return on that kind of investment. >> thats what it is, all about. donna, thank you so much. >> thanks, gerri. well, remember cash for clunkers? well, now, there is cash for ...

Martha, we lost 850,000 jobs in one month. 12 months later we lost 20,000 jobs in a month, still intense, remember the last six months of the bush administration we had a minus 6% growth in gdp, last quarter it was positive, almost 6%, that is a 12% swing. no. this economic stimulus bill, which should have been called slow the hemorrhaging of jobs bill, did exactly what it had to do, if anything, it needed to be more bold and even more aggressive. and we have been torpedoed and the ship was sink...

>> no. its one of the most unionized states in the country, a popular issue out there. its interesting to me that the president after a year, in my view, not quite articulating what his main objective was, identified it. its to insure the uninsured. the problem is that other people interested in health care reform have other objectives, like reducing the long-term costs to the federal government, that are not necessarily consistent with that. >> in fact, are in conflict with that. >> thats why h...

Are there potentially some democrats that the tea party movement might get behind? >> thats another great question too. were open to have a discussion with the dnc, theres no problem with that. its interesting right now in the past year the dnc and democrat have the house and congress and with that, they have have had free reign of pushing legislation through. its interesting because the whole pat year the whole grass roots moment has been in response to the legislation thats been passed by the ...

Bill yesterday. now, of course, estimated to cost taxpayers $862 billion over the next ten years, and jim acosta has got what they are saying about it. he joins us live. >> reporter: just because the stimulus is one-year-old, doesnt mean democrats and republicans have stopped fighting over the program. the white house is trying to play offense. one year out and the president and his campaign were -- his cabinet were in campaign mode, and they brought in republican muscle. >> i was one of the fir...

>> right now we do it on a randomized basis, somebody who is a potential terrorist cannot predict if theyll be swabbed or not swabbed. >> reporter: like increases in okay nine teams, the expanded use of trace detection machines is a direct result of the christmas day attempt to blow up an airliner. unlike body scanners, they do not raise civil liberties concerns. >> it we would not want to see it used in a discriminate way against muslims and arabs. fertilizer can trigger the machines but tsa ...