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Off some of our national debt. the stimulus bill was approved for $787 billion price tag, but the non-partisan congressional budget office calculations show it could cost $862 billion. numbers like that fueling the fire of critics who say government spending is out of control. nearly eigarea in ten american voters agree. a whopping 78% say spending needs to be reined in. thaone fs up 16 points since the last time we asked in the spring. just 14% now say spending is managed carefully. voters are overall not impressed with how the president personally is handling the economy. a 56% majority of t...

When i walk into schools, that's the first thing kids expect. >> steve: this is how we're going to start. the white house says that the stimulus cost $787 billion. and the congressional budget office said $862 billion. those are the numbers you're going to start at. now you're going to tell us about jobs created. >> the estimate, the white house said they were going to get 3.3 million to 4 million jobs. and the cbo said it's only going to do 1.3 to 1.6. ended up around 2 million. >> steve: it did create 2 million jobs? >> in 09 we lost 4 million. so maybe we would have lost 6 million jobs. >> ...

The politicians who benefit from them to sell us something at one price and then jack that price up later in hopes that we won't notice. >> reporter: according to the government accountability office, the military's v- 2 osprey aircraft's development cost increased over 200% increasing from $4.2 billion to $12.7 billion between 1986 and 2007. the stimulus project originally passed congress with a $787 billion price tag. but later the congressional budget office revised that number upward to $862 billion due to higher costs for unemployment compensation. the yucca mountain site to bury nuclear ...

That the first stimulus plan all $862 billion worth of it did not work as advertised. proof positive from the fed chairman yesterday with that very grim outlook. >> stuart, the other issue that came up, the president seems on the defense of the last 10 days possibly saying he's not a socialist. free market guy. you know me. here is the president talking about the accusation that's been coming his way. >> contrary of the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, i am an ardent believer in the free market. we've arrived to a juncture in politics where reasonable efforts to up...

When the price tag for a project approved by congress balloons out of control. >> it is always the natural tendency of bureaucracies and the politicians who benefit from them to sell us something at one price and then jack that price up later, and in hopes that we won't notice. >> reporter: according to the government account blability office, the osprey development cost increased from $4.2 billion to $12.7 billion between 1986 and 2007. the stimulus project originally passed congress with $87 billion price tag, but later the congressional budget office revised that number upwards to $862 bill...