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That was the spring of this year. what's it going to be like in the summer when we get the numbers for july, august or september? clearly, we are slowing down. that's where you could be entering a contracting period for the economy. this is a very big day for business as of today. very big. >> what's going on when the vice president says things are looking up? i mean, that spin at some point will be a credibility crisis that they don't want. >> it's already a credibility crisis. he's being attacked from the left. paul krugman in "the new york times" today says there's no

That may have very little effect on c02 which everyone says what we should be addressing. >> robert, look. we want to get off oil and gas in the big picture and be able to sustain ourselves like brazil is doing but is your sense that the wind is not yet there now but is -- is there enough potential there to lasso the wind to be more effective or do you feel as though this is not ever going to be effective? >> well, i'm -- i understand your point about brazil but brazil is really -- their success story is actually in deep water off-shore drilling. that's the success story in brazil, not ethanol...

I think that the responsible thing to do is follow the law, let it expire. deal with the fact that we have these wars going on, deal with the fact that, you know, every time we talk about tax cuts, i find it very interesting, nobody talks about the jobs that are lost when your tax base is low. that's what just happened in new york state where we were so worried about whether or not we were going to lose all these teachers. so therefore, that's the repercussion of a tax cut. >> i know you see it differently. sure, we should extend the tax cuts because it's critical to job creation. new york i...

Alaska, arizona, california and hawaii, idaho, montana, nevada and washington. they say the driveway doesn't constitute your home or personal space so your driveway is free reign. if they want to sneak in under the cover of darkness and put this g.p.s. system in and track your every single move, a la big brother, they're perfectly entitled to do so. they say this law discriminates against less wealthy people. because wealthy people have gated communities. that's certainly your private property but not your driveway. >> no. >> good point. >> look, people -- i like to know where a would be crimi...

New metric at, apparently, the department of energy and the department of energy spokesperson explained how it works. lives touched represents the cumulative number of full-time, part-time and temporary workers that have been employed with the recovery act funds, the stimulus, at some point since the start of the program in april of 2009. what this means, if you count lives touched, if somebody comes in for a day and works on a project and goes their merry way to the g.a.o., the government accounting office says because of this calculus, the department of energy has saved or created somewhere ...