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Subsidies for oil companies and private jets but end, say, federal help for grad students college loans. you know, those grad students, i hate how they caused the recession. as if theres enough skin we can take out of grad students hides to get us out of this recession. this very hard time we are living through is sometimes called the great recession, a name meant to distinguish it from but relate it to a harder time in our history, the great depression of the 19 30z, franklin delano roosevelt w...

President obama has run up the debt twice as much as george w. bush. >> a large part of that was tax cuts in the stimulus program. 40%. >> bill: the way you run the federal government and where you spend. >> every time in recent american history, we have run this experiment of big government, big spending, big entitlements, big taxes. it has led to economic catastrophe. its led to huge amounts of burden on the american people. >> bill: what economic catastrophe. >> ever since the beginning of th...

Obamas stimulus program as hugely inefficient. white house correspondent looks at the numbers and what they me mean>> on spending and job growth they were spending $278,000 a job. the report says 666 billion in stimulus spending quote has saved or created between 2.4 and 36.6 million jobs. using the lower figure the spending says giving the leach could have saved more than 400 billion. dividing between 3.6 million still comes out to $185,000 a job. the math doesnt work that way. >> the report is...

State retailers and amazons response was to sever its relations. >> at least they didnt raise other taxes this time like income taxes, okay, dan. >> interestingly in connecticut daniel malloy, a republican-- >> hes a democrat. >> a democrat, im sorry, 864 million dollars stimulus program at the university of connecticut, typical democratic policy and trying to reform the public unions there and the unions thought going gotten a democratic governor the first time in a long time thought theyd get ...

A sudden. jobs, not much hiring, an awful lot of layoffs, and you put it all together, and this economy is growing at less than 2% per year. thats almost at stalling speed for an economy which is supposed to be roaring out of a recovery. martha, that is why youve got people like robert rush, former labor secretary under president clinton, saying that we are, indeed, heading towards a double-dip recession. big negatives on the economy. martha: yeah. its a very bad sign, especially when you have s...

Spending or more none any or some combination of that and as i understand it that the stimulus program that the democrats and president obama pushed and got passed in february of 09 is one where because they went farther into debt essentially that they could create more jobs and there would be more tax revenue to overcome the imbalance of what we spend in terms of what we take in. is that a fair assessment of their ideology. >> that is exactly what they were thinking and really any kind of stimu...

One day you say we are exceptional country. next day sarkozy and france take the lead. who are you? are you a milk toast guy or tough guy? >> other problem. he has laid claim to awful these issues, health care, stimulating the economy, replacing oil with other sources, liberating the middle east. humanitarian response in libya. and as they go wrong. >> bill: none of them really work. >> then is he on the hook for all of them. coal lip pauls line is the most important here. you break it, you own ...

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Give him a grade on economic and foreign policy. >> on the economic side i would have to grid him as a failure. id say he failed the exam, largely because of the results. unemployment still way through the roof. he took what i think was a recession that could have been over a year earlier and extended it an extra year with a disastrous stimulus program that just added to the debt and the deficit, with no discernible affects on the economy. dont tell me he saved jobs. i never got counted by the j...

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