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Take a vote. stop this farce. and end this shutdown right now. >> the american people agree. stop this farce. and heres a tip. dont blame park rangers for your dirty work. joining me now, a former governor, ed rendell, democrat of pennsylvania, and goldie taylor. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> governor, blaming a park ranger for a closed memorial. i mean-v you ever seen anything like this? >> no. its the most hypocritical thing ive seen in politics, and politics is a hypocritica...

Up with in terms of government waste. there was a lot in the stimulus. the stimulus was nearly a trillion dollars. the president later joked we didnt have as many shovel ready jobs as we thought we had. >> greta: yeah, he joked. >> go to google stimulus and waste and you can read for hours about wasteful stimulus projects. i wrote about one a couple of years ago. a couple hundred thousand dollars that went to state university of new york in buffalo to a professor studying the effects of smoking ...

To see someone go through the budget and see where our money is going. >> exactly, thats why its so important to have a budget and so bad weve gone now four years without passing a budget. the last time in the united states senate, there was no such thing as the ipad. no one heard of it, it wasnt on the market. >> greta: i dont know if the viewers know what profound waste is. i remember during the presidents stimulus bill we spent 20 million dollars on signs that these were stimulus projects. 20...

Although you said you oppose the stimulus package, you signed a couple of letters asking for stimulus projects and therefore, you were against it while you were against it and for it while you were against it. can you leer that up? >> sure. my office sends various letters to several agencies. it was treated as a case work request. i take full responsibility for it. it wasnt my intention to send letters supporting stimulus. but this doesnt change the fact that the stimulus was a bomb. it didnt wo...

Actually you receive part of your coverage but not all of it and thats the best way to actually look at this and in one respect like the 401(k) defined contributions save you a lot of money but you have a weaker benefit. >> let me switch quickly to what i think we talked about a lot this vetting of paul ryan by the media now from his assertion over the stimulus. it turns out he did seek funds for two companies to what we call the tough talk on chinas currency manipulation which you point out in ...

governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. "cnn newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. im carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. thats who would most benefit fr...

Owner with 500 employees in illinois said this jobs plan is a disaster. he wants to continue with the payroll tax deduction. gnat shred of evidence it created a single job. continue to prolong unemployment business. he wants more stimulus projects for more solyndra of the world. he wants to take away deduction for popular deductions that people have. mortgage interest, charitable deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes. this is a disaster his plan. thats why its dead on arrival. it...

Owner with 500 employees in illinois said this jobs plan is a disaster. he wants to continue with the payroll tax deduction. gnat shred of evidence it created a single job. continue to prolong unemployment business. he wants more stimulus projects for more solyndra of the world. he wants to take away deduction for popular deductions that people have. mortgage interest, charitable deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes. this is a disaster his plan. thats why its dead on arrival. it...

Romney finishing so well in that particular voting, that little poll up there in new hampshire is that he was the governor in the next door state of massachusetts. meanwhile, lets move on. we know that billions and billions of our tax dollars were spent on stimulus projects and now the gao says that 3700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations got $24 billion from stimulus programs and yet, they owed $757 million in back taxes. so even though they owed the federal government a whole b...

Stevens died in a plane crash last week with four other people in a fishing trip in alaska. the vice-president serve in the senate with stevens for more than 30 years. im ohioans. now back to greta. >> greta: what is the latest on the february 09 stimulus money? is it all spent? nope. how much is left company should it be spent on more stimulus projects or something else? steve moore joins us. steve february 09, how much do we have left of our stimulus money? >> well, i have two words for you gr...