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jobless claims number is staying stubbornly above that number. you combine that jobless claims report with another report which shows manufacturing in the northeast contracting a business more, and you've got a picture of an economy which is at dead stop, and the trend is indeed towards a contraction, that is recession. bill: we talked about that, and many people think we're already back in that recession, but that debate continues. now, on green jobs, there's a new survey out. what does it tell us about how the government tried to boost this industry, right? >> green jobs, very much...

president tries to go out across the country and tout this latest jobs plan. bill: and the big concern today, we've talked about this, the possibility we're head fod a new recession. stuart varney, fox business network, good morning. >> good morning, bill. bill: first on the jobs, break down the number from last hour. >> look, 428,000 new claims for unemployment benefits last week. that's a very big number. it is partly kp-p dollars away by irene, hurricane irene, which subdued economic activity, and it was in part responsible for this big number. it's also a very bad number, and tha...

maybe 80 to 90 million people will find themselves without employer-sponsored health care. the other big part of this news is that there will be changes in what employees get, either reduction in benefits or increased copayments, increased premiums. and all of this i think is designed to do exactly what the bill planned to do, and that is to make private health insurance so expensive and so intolerable from employers and employees that people would go to the public option and go with the government plan. that was the plan all along, and i think that that plan is head...

maybe 80 to 90 million people will find themselves without employer-sponsored health care. the other big part of this news is that there will be changes in what employees get, either reduction in benefits or increased copayments, increased premiums. and all of this i think is designed to do exactly what the bill planned to do, and that is to make private health insurance so expensive and so intolerable from employers and employees that people would go to the public option and go with the government plan. that was the plan all along, and i think that that plan is heade...

perry the newest addition on the trail and michele bachmann fresh off her win in the iowa straw poll saturday, sharing the stage in waterloo, iowa, both bringing a message that the oval office needs a change. >> and making sure that we have a candidate that can beat barack obama in november is the most important thing that we do, and it's got to be somebody that understands and knows how and has had job creation experience in their background. >> they sense that the oomph is gone out of barack obama, and in every place i've gone, i've had democrats, independents, apolitical people co...