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Nonanswer because the real answer will be damaging to the health care reform operation. >> when you also factor in that everyone is going to have to get insurance or be fined, you can look at that as a tax. >> yes, you can. >> $960 if you don't have it. >> it will be i.r. s. which levies that. it's going to be called a tax and not a fine for legalistic reasons but the i.r. s. will levy that tax. tha there's a long list of taxes, i just gave you a partial list. >> you could go on for 17 minutes. it's only a three hour show. yesterday, the president's men and women went out on the chat shows and...

Report numbers come out because both sides lay claim to them and try to spin them one way or the other. the right is saying, hey, a lot of the jobs are temporary census workers, 48,000 of them. fewer than the amount they wanted to hire for the census and they didn't end up hiring a full amount. so, is this just pie in the sky or should we really be proud of the numbers? >> look. all i got to say if they were eight and a half million new jobs created mike gallagher would find something to complain about and so would the republicans. let me tell you, the fact of it is if you were one of those 26...

Growth and that could mean dividends for investors, always a plus. also, all this action is without smaller investors betting on a rally. pooling more than 900 million from domestic stock funds a week ago and putting them most of their cash in bonds. but, don't forget, the fed plans to turn off the spigot on its easy money. the removal credit market supports could stop stocks from surging and the run on wall street depends on a recovery on main street. housing remains weak. as for the jobs market, the most important part of the equation, yes, march saw plus signs but it was mainly uncle sam do...

Last month by companies and by governments including 48,000 census workers, and that's the highest level of job growth since march of 2007, three years. companies have also, if we look at the numbers going back six months have now added workers for three out of the last six months, so that's a good sign as well. but there are, you know, still obviously we heard from some of the president's economic advisors about concerns about how quickly we can get back to, you know, a natural normal rate, healthy rate of employment around 5%. right now at the current pace of 160,000 jobs created a month, it...

That's made the economy robust. whether it was public works projects and road building a century and a half ago, where today we're dealing with human capital. and if i can make a point here, the census is about collecting data on the great human capital that are the people of the united states. there's actually gold in them there hills, keith. that data is valuable. so even looked at in republican terms, this is a very valuable thing that the census workers are doing, even if you don't want to look at the human side of the equation. >> but you know this, if obama managed to hire personally 275...