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Did not create the shovel-ready jobs, guess who gets the shovel-ready jobs? average, working class americans who are now forced to go on food stamps. >> it is fair to say, i am a conservative and don't begrudge people getting food stamps, it saves families from having zero nutrition or precious little. the sad thing is not that people get food stamps, the sad thing is that they need them, because of the economy, is so bad. >> my dad was a construction worker and he was out of work a lot during the '70s and, thank god we weren't on food stamps, he found other jobs but what i kind scary about th...

Fact is his stimulus plan did not create the shovel ready jobs. guess who gets the shovel ready jobs? . ing an americans, working class, who are now forced to go on food stamps. >> mike: he think it's fair to stay i'm a conservative, but i don't begrudge people getting food stamps because it absolutely saves families from either having zero nutrition or something precious little. the sad they think is not that people get food stamps, the sad thing that they need them because the economy is so bad. >> my dad was a construction worker, and out of work in the '70s, and thank god we weren't on foo...

Did not create the shovel-ready jobs, guess who gets the shovel-ready jobs? average, working class americans who are now forced to go on food stamps. >> it is fair to say, i am a conservative and don't begrudge people getting food stamps, it saves families from having zero nutrition or precious little. the sad thing is not that people get food stamps, the sad thing is that they need them, because of the economy, is so bad. >> my dad was a construction worker and he was out of work a lot during the '70s and, thank god we weren't on food stamps, he found other jobs but what i kind scary about th...

Part-time job or seasonal job as a creation? >> well, that's part of it, but i think the real problem is, he doesn't want to count, he doesn't want to be measured against the depth of the real problem and the depth of the real problem is 8 million people have been unemployed. there's a huge number of people who are not looking for work because they're just so discouraged about job prospects. we talk a lot about how many people are unemployed. what about the number of people who are employed? the size of the work force has shrunk and shrunk dramatically. and it's now where it was 30 years ago, ...

Are reporting as unemployed. a lot of people go et discouraged and walk away. they drop out of the work force and we lose track of them. you look at the real number, closer to 14.5%. >> mike: the president recently came out with what he calls the bridge to work program and what it does, allows people to continue collecting unemployment benefits, 99 weeks, two years and if they get a job, they can sort of road test the job and still get unemployment. now, i'm confused. the whole point of unemployment insurance is that you're unemployed. he's saying you can go to work, have the job, and still ge...