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And this year, they want to raise taxes by 20 billion dollars through the republican budget, doesn't raise taxes. next year they want to raise the taxes by 40 billion dollars, again, the republican budget doesn't raise taxes and then on the deficit this year, the democrat deficit would be 164 billion dollars bigger than the republican deficit. and next year, 308 billion dollars, just to give you a sense of it, by 2015 the republican deficit would be down to 125 billion and the democrat deficit 433 billion. there's a big indication of the difference between the parties when you look at the budg...

>> nice to see you. >> dave: are we on the road to recovery? the unemployment numbers looks pretty nice. >> it looks, but-- i don't want to sound like for ris bueller's day off, but the unemployment re sid dual. you take the labor force, subtract the number of people working and get the unemployment. but if a whole bunch of people leave the employment force the unemployment number looks better than it and lots of people left the labor force, so we don't have a big recovery going on now. we have some addition to the work force, that's good. some addition to employed, that's good, but the number...

Dollar, the japanese yen that been gaining today. pauline? nina, here in asia, japanese markets failed to maintain the gains from tuesday. in fact, it's quit a different story. a profit-taking sent tokyo's main index lower as investors reacted to new radiation warnings, this time in the tap water in tokyo. after the markets close, japan's golf. said that the economic cost from the earthquake and tsunami could total $308 billion. meanwhile, around the rest of the region, let's look at how they fared. shares of cole companies dragged the market down in hong kong. banking and energy stocks gave...

Vote slated today. that issue likely to dominate in the eu summit tomorrow. markets suffering, adding to yesterday's losses albeit not as much. pauline? >> i'm afraid the asian markets did not give you a good lead-in today. here in asia, japan led the losses. profit taking sent tokyo's main index lower as investors reacted to new radiation warnings, this time in tokyo's tap water. we heard an update from my colleague a colleague about that. after the markets closed j pan's government said the cost of the economy of the earthquake and the tsunami could total $308 billion. meanwhile, around the ...