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Sand and pretend but when we've spent ourselves into this fix and now we're saying there's no immediate need to fix it with spending, maybe to the senator's point we can fix it with taxing, that's screwed up. >> is there waste, yes. i've spent 16 years if congress and saw plenty of areas where money is wasted. but i think tomorrow harken -- tom harkin alluded to investigating in education. >> we don't have the money to invest. where does that investment strategy come from? >> hold on a minute. >> we're investing on a credit line. >> are we -- that's true but i said we have to rethink this when...

Getting a lot of stimulus money. on the other hand, they're being demonized as millionaires and billionaires when they are the job creators. they will get hit with those higher income tax rates that are being talked about on the 250,000 or up. >> it was interesting, because the president didn't talk about any of his policies as far as being the cause of these low job numbers. elizabeth macdonald, have a great weekend. >> you too. thank you. >> just a month after president obama said this about the economy: >> even though the economy's growing, even though it's created more than two million job...

People unemployed as there are now if we did not move forward. these actions are all controversial because we were digging our way out of a deep ditch. >> reporter: the speaker says she is not nervous about the chances in this election because democratic coffers are full and democratic campaigns are strong. >> president will be in office two years in just a few months. how are republicans responding? >> reporter: president did acknowledge that things are back to normal. we have a long ways to go. gop talking points are clear. they were on television during the sunday talk shows. they say lower...

To be, i'm not going to be satisfied. >> the main question remains how satisfied will voters be three months from now. steve centanni is live in washington with more, hi, julie. both parties are going to be pointing the economy on into the election in november. hoping to win voters with very different messages and democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi point out the economic meltdown did not come out on president obama's watch and claimed things would be a lot worse, worse than now. if democrats and the white house had not taken bold action. >> the economists said we'd have twice as many pe...