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Well, good friday afternoon to you. sunny day in oklahoma and an amazing conversation here at oklahoma state university, last night focusing on jobs and energy. putting a cap on our four-month "steel on wheels" tour and on the last day of this tour, a bad news/good news situation. today, oil spiking to nearly $108 a barrel but finally a little bit of progress on the jobs front. the economy adding 216,000 jobs this month, resulting in an unemployment rate of 8.8%. but we know that 8.8% number is basically a fraud. the real number of jobless in this country, 15.6%. with that said, that number is...

This is a big deal. >> so while the gop proposal is technically one day away, we're four days away from the shutdown itself. let's go ahead and say that happens. who is the biggest loser politically and how much could it hurt the economic recovery right now as we're in the balancing act of trying to get back on our feet as a country. >> thomas, i think it could hurt the economic recovery because, you know, if suddenly hundreds of thousands of people, government workers did not get paychecks that means they cannot turn around and buy things from the rest of the economy. that means a lot of peop...

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