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Reasons the numbers are improving. in march construction sector unemployment was 17.2% according to the bureau of labor statistics. it jumped in april to 14.5%, and then 14.2. in june it was 12.8. the chief economist of the associated general contractors of america says, it is not because they're finding construction jobs. >> they're finding jobs in other industries, not in construction. maybe truck drivering, manufacturing services or else going back to school and retiring. they're just not being hired in construction. that is a potential problem for the industry. >> reporter: the 12.8% figur...

The troops stay and live on the base. they eat on the base. they exercise on the base. only time they leave the base is to go on patrol where they're going looking for bad guys or on patrol where they're doing, you know, good deeds. where they're doing agricultural projects or community projections. what karzai is saying is, you can come out and do the good deeds and agricultural projects and help us build roads but you will not come out with your guns on your belts and come into the villages and go in to patrols. that is basically telling us you're on your way out the door. jenna: should we l...

Government spending creates jobs. according to them when the government helps build roads, that doesn't create jobs or speed up environmental cleanup or hire some people or keep cops and firefighters on, but apparently it's the only way to create jobs, according to them -- weapons and bases. they are now trying to keep military spending at an all-time high. in fact, the republican position is cut medicare, so we can keep having troops in west germany and japan, now very hypocritically announcing if we cut the military, it will boost military. >> so if it's military or defense, it's job creatio...

About funds not flowing to medical providers, who are super connected and super powerful -- >> she's talking birch -- >> when you're talking about roads you're talking about people who build roads. who are the guys who are friends with the mayor or who are able to use those funds and not use those funds very well. i think it's legitimate to say people should pay taxes. here's the thing. it's legitimate to say, wait a second, how is that money being spent? >> wait a second. >> i think you're responding -- >> but the hunk, and where does that hunk come from? >> i think it was chunk. >> i think i...

Discuss radical left wing ideas like building roads and fixing schools and bridges. it must be socialism. it's really amazing, isn't it? >> the president keeps talking about how, you know, this used to be the kind of idea that wasn't that controversial. this used to be the kind of idea the democrats and republicans could come together on. is he right in pointing that out as a means of making the case that it could be that way again? >> as a historical matter, he certainly is right. i mean, who did more to build roads in this country than dwight eisenhower? he put through the interstate highway...