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Interior now. which means they can build more of those sweet apartments over factories in the middle of the country. some scientists when they built the dam, they said it's holding out so much water that they believe it's actually tilting the earth on its axis. it will tilt to slow the rotation down to knock us off a fraction of a second. kind of big. we know that china's is largest producer of coal. these years ago they were building two power plants, coal power plants, two every week. that is not enough. two coal plants a week, not enough. in the last three years, china has spent $262 billio...

Interior now. which means they can build more of those sweet apartments over factories in the middle of the country. some scientists when they built the dam, they said it's holding out so much water that they believe it's actually tilting the earth on its axis. it will tilt to slow the rotation down to knock us off a fraction of a second. kind of big. we know that china's is largest producer of coal. these years ago they were building two power plants, coal power plants, two every week. that is not enough. two coal plants a week, not enough. in the last three years, china has spent $262 billio...

Into $862 billion. forget the other programs. it's literally trillions of dollars of the economic stimulus that's not working. but a trillion to keep us safer, that's not a good idea. >> brian: i was stunned by this, started off with iraq, i wasn't surprised afghanistan. but when you segueway to spending republicans and the deficit, you really had a portion of this speech be about the debt and the deficit and blaming the war and the last ten years. >> gretchen: look in the difference in the spending between iraq, $709 billion versus the stimulus of $862 billion. you're not going to see this gr...

Dave? >> thanks, brian. the $862 billion stimulus plan was supposed to save the economy and create new jobs. but with unemployment still at 9.5%, many are questioning whether this spending spree is working and why certain groups are more affected than others. joining us this morning is author and journalist tony brown. check him out on tonybrown.com as well. good morning to you, sir. during the summer of recovery, 14 million americans are out of work. you say, perhaps, this is even worse among blacks and minorities. how so? >> well, statistically, the black community has an unemployment rate o...

I don't care how mr. obama wants to say it, the bottom line, we track this, the bureau of labor statistics tells us, 3 1/2 million jobs, goodbye, 21 percent of homes are under water, that means you owe more on your home than the home is worth. that's not too good. the only good news is, if you don't like it, you have november to change it. i can go on and on, unemployment, 27 million people underemployed, home prices, falling off the table. foreclosures, record high. so whatever we were sold, we were sold a bill of goods. remember this, 8.5% unemployment was going to be the absolute max, if yo...