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Involves health care. what we don't know yet, despite the president's promises, is not only how the health care industry will respond but what big companies and small companies are doing to see that their best interests are served by all of this, and we can't see how that might play out by the end of his first term. terms of employment. yes, there are encouraging signs that unemployment is going down, but the middle class is still widely separated from the 1% at the top. we know we don't have the skill set in our economy. there is just another report this past week about where america stands w...

What we don't know yet, despite the president's promises, is not only how the health care industry will respond but what big companies and small companies are doing to see that their best interests are served by all of this, and we can't see how that might play out by the end of his first term. terms of employment. yes, there are encouraging signs that unemployment is going down, but the middle class is still widely separated from the 1% at the top. we know we don't have the skill set in our economy. there is just another report this past week about where america stands when it comes to the re...

Two years, to eventually become the actual head of the cpb. and that is something that -- the obama administration thought it was critical because this agency was created to help consumers after the 2008 recession and so forth. so that's number one. but as you said, it's part of a much bigger picture issue that has been going on here in the senate, and that is democrats said that they were incredibly frustrated that he was one of more than half a dozen nominees that the republicans were simply holding up. so we do understand from sources in both parties that after harry reid threatened to use ...

Record." >> it's difficult for me to take a view here. i'm a journalist, i've had many sources i protect and i wouldn't want my record subpoenaed. but you have to go back. take the a.p. issue aside and look at what congress did to approved certain -- whether it wire tapping or looking at other record of americans in the fight against the war on terror. this is something that a lot of civil liberties groups have said are unfair for many years. so it's a bigger picture issue beyond just the world of journalism. but it also one the american people don't necessarily connect with as much as, say, t...

Be reduced, as percentage of gdp, it will be increased. so we have done nothing yet to deal with a very serious long-term problem. guys, if you don't see it, it's what's wrong with progressives. >> everybody has got some good points. we need growth right now. we're going to need some debt reduction a little more medium to long-term. alex, i think you made a really important point, is that, because -- >> you sound surprised. >> the goal posts have moved way over here and i think that that's really interesting. and that's a bigger picture issue. because neoconservative economic ideas are so much...