people dependent on government in american history. we have 15 million more people on food stamps. we have 27 million in underemployed americans. he said he would cut the deficit in half. he s given us the largest deficits. and he called george bush unpatriotic for and irresponsible about, he s given us $5.5 trillion in debt in 3.5 years. george gave us 3 in eight years. sean, i can t believe you are mimicking that statistic that the president himself has stopped talking about. he is the biggest spender in american history. he has increased the size of government at the federal level. he has sent moneys to the states and municipalities and have them increase the size of government. he s increased debt and we have people who are still looking for jobs after four years. john, when you know that in fact what we are seeing in state and local government is a terrific error of retrenchment.
people dependent on government in american history. we have 15 million more people on food stamps. we have 27 million in underemployed americans. he said he would cut the deficit in half. he s given us the largest deficits. and he called george bush unpatriotic for and irresponsible about, he s given us $5.5 trillion in debt in 3.5 years. george gave us 3 in eight years. sean, i can t believe you are mimicking that statistic that the president himself has stopped talking about. he is the biggest spender in american history. he has increased the size of government at the federal level. he has sent moneys to the states and municipalities and have them increase the size of government. he s increased debt and we have people who are still looking for jobs after four years. john, when you know that in fact what we are seeing in state and local government is a terrific error of retrenchment.
today s report, bill was one very little sunshine in it. in fact so little, that 34,000 americans simply gave up and went home 342,000. we need to do a lot better than that. bill: the labor participation rate is dismal. of the percentage of americans eligible for working the number, 63.6% today. you would have to go back to 1981 before the number is that low. that s remarkable. this is a testament to of completely tailed set of failed set of labor market policies. this the lowest fraction of americans even trying to work in 3 1/2 decades. we need to put in place policies which encourage businesses to expand, to add to their factories, to add to their payrolls. we re not seeing that kind of attempt. we ll likely see more calls for temporary stimulus. we re in the fourth year of that failed experiment. time to try to go back to the principles that gave us 3 and 400,000 jobs in the
mountains of colorado. mountain tops will get into snow. the rockies are pretty good for a little snow, but places like tahoe, really baran. really barren. the snow aids around bets in making more. we don t have much. we re not going to see much in the short term. talk about the heat coming up with incredible numbers. snow begets snow. i like that. much more in my pocket. see you a little later. thank you very much. just a week into the new year, gas prices are on the rise again. look at today s average price in the u.s. $3:37 for regular unleaded. a year ago, and by summer gasoline could hit, wait until you hear this, $4.25 a gallon. utah, cheapest prices. the only place still below $3 a gallon. and a list of other items
he says u.k. or u.s. $3, u.k. is $5. canada $8 and europe $10 and the reason the u.s. is the cheapest is because we have the most credit cards, just supply and demand. so you and i right now could conduct a sale with this guy and buy a credit card for $3, and go online, and buy something and have it shipped to let s say an office in brooklyn and if the secret service was on their toes which they usually aren t in this situation, they could march into the studio and they could say, hey, you bought a credit card and you conducted a crime and they re going to look at me and say, you committed a crime and i m saying, no, i didn t, governor huckabee did, and you re going to say, no, i didn t, somebody at the audience did. nobody could prove who was at the keyboard. it was you or me or one of the people in the audience. mike: i think it s one of them in the audience, i ve looked at them. pretty much sure. that s why the federal agents can t go to europe or china and