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Trillion of household wealth in the last 17 or 18 months. 7 million homes in foreclosure. 8 1/2 million jobs have been lost. retirement incomes have declined by 20%. housing values declined by 30%. this morning's news obviously about goldman-sachs. here we are 17 months after someone broke into our house, in effect, and robbed us and we still haven't even changed the locks on the doors and we need to get it done. >> interesting thing is you have senator shelby sitting next to senator dodd, many people are saying that would not have happened, the republican and democrat would not have come toge...

Talk about it. we're not there yet. i would hope we could get the votes tomorrow when we have this motion to proceed, to start the debate. again, i think richard and i have a pretty good understanding of where we are in these matters. we can't take care of everything in the bill. obviously our colleagues want to be heard. we've lost almost $11 trillion of household wealth in the last 17 or 18 months, 17 million homes in foreclosure, retirement incomes have declined by 20%. housing values decline by 30%. this morning's news ability goldman sachs -- here we are 17 months after someone broke into...

Truth and trying to say, what do we need to do to get america back on track? an america that creates jobs that competes successfully with that and -- with china and india and allows to afford to pay for things because we are earning the money. this is going to require for bigger changes than any politician is going to talk about. >> greta: is florida different than other states, high percentage of people who are retired, they are not making income, they are living off savings. also a lot of the homes are second homes, because are snow birds from my home state or other. florida has a peculiar d...

Period of talking, telling the truth and trying to say, what do we need to do to get america back on track? an america that creates jobs that competes successfully with that and -- with china and india and allows to afford to pay for things because we are earning the money. this is going to require for bigger changes than any politician is going to talk about. >> greta: is florida different than other states, high percentage of people who are retired, they are not making income, they are living off savings. also a lot of the homes are second homes, because are snow birds from my home state or ...

>> yeah. i think they think it's more acute. there is another problem that you layer on top of this. that is that this program could be a victim of its own success. if, in fact, you have that many people who buy in. who participate in the program, it could actually exacerbate the very problems that it's trying to fix just as the first program did. so, you know, it may actually solve the short-term problem and exacerbate the long term problem which really, i think, could have a negative impact on the economy. if there is a further downturn in housing, then you have all of these people in these ...