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Every night. class warfare and the president's attempt to redistribute wealth. we always ask -- does the strategy actually work? if you look at the statistics, you would be hard pressed to think that obama's economic agenda is helping in any way. the total number of food stamp recipients has increased by nearly 15 million people. and when it comes to americans living below the poverty line, that has increased by more than 6 million people in 2008. so with all of these numbers indicating that big government is not the answer, they want more government involvement and they are saying that povert...

more than a decade. the economy has added jobs. that's the most important thing, for 17 straight months. more than two million jobs in the last year alone. so there are real signs the economy is improving, but gas prices have been soaring. the cost of living rising. the most in more than ten months. some americans may be feeling left out of this economy. diane swonk, diane, as gas prices have increased, the president's approval rating has decreased. i'm not one to make direct correlations, but there's been really nothing else that might have caused this. there's a clear breakdown bas...

An e-mail and i'll try to respond to as many as possible because after all i work for you. but i guess that wouldn't make for a very interesting drinking game. >> not only that it would make for unanimous credible disruption. if you look at the jobs problem in this country, which is really at the core issue, without jobs you have the poverty problem w-the poverty problem you also have the education problem, mental illness problem, violence problem, lack of tax revenue problem. i can go down the list. you have jobs. you have a lot of those problems start to go away. you can't have jobs if the w...

As opposed to demonizing each other and saying, well, it's china's fault that america has unemployment or it's none of america's business how china deals with poverty. is there any bridge to be built between these two men collectively to sort of begin a collaboration to solve the poverty problem in both countries? >> well, look, there is a -- one of the problems that american officials have shared with us that they say in dealing with the chinese and in dealing with the chinese government is that first of all, president hu isn't -- the way a president of the united states is clearly the comman...