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Topped out at over 10%. 10.2%. and there were people saying that we're not going to get below double figures for a lot of years. in february of 2009 there just wasn't a whole heck of a lot of good news going on in america. >> the deficit number's going to be very high, 1.3 trillion. >> these banks are in trouble and the reason is the real estate market continues to deteriorate. >> when will it end with all the bad economic news? and there's more today. >> the unemployment rate is at 8.1%. president obama is telling americans not to panic. >> the government is out this morning with some stunnin...

Thing, it is a good time to be in the alcohol business, even though as we've been reporting today, some vice-related products like tobacco are getting more pushback on the retailer side. it was a record year for the liquor industry. tell us about that. >> yep. we've got a big global thirst and we saw experts spike beyond the $1 billion mark for the very first time ever for last year, so bourbon and tennessee whisky revenues shot up higher here at home, rising by a projected 10.2% last year. it is really great news for the industry. it was the fourth straight year of record exports for these am...

>> so what else won't you be hearing from the president tonight? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr., speech guy and speech writing in your background. what should we be hearing and what won't we be hearing? >> at optimism is an attitude. not a plan. you won't be hearing certain things that other americans understand about where our economy really is. let's look at the current debt. $17.2 trillion. 38% of that, accumulated during the obama administration. look at national unemployment, 6.7, brian. what's the real rate? the rate of the missing, those who said i'm giving up on trying to fi...

That actually there is a lot that can be changed quite quickly. there really is consensus here. i think you are right about the 1988 campaign that you would never know we ended up here. but i do think very much that like while they may have acted some people in their desire to pardon some president, some governor, i think there is a wide belief that everything that took place is for the longer working. >> i think part of the story is we put this up before, it's still, i can't get overlooking at it. the difference between the political climate of 1984, we have this poll here, asking voters what...

>> get a tax credit for hiring someone that's been unimploempl. >> these folks are really in trouble. >> we should do both, right? we should help the folks that are still in trouble. kevin is right, there is an element of the unemployment rate that is there because of the ui program. but even given that, it's been -- >> people that stay unemployed because they can get enough from unemployment. >> yes. there is a lot of research and debate. but my estimates, 10.2 3% of unemployment is due to the ui program. the net benefit of this is very significant. kevin is right. we have to work on long ter...