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To take a very critical look yet again at what they propose because just because they tell us it's true does not make it so and we have empirical evidence on that. >> we're looking forward to it. professor dyson, can you imagine, sir, how well the economy might be doing if we hadn't had the self-inflicted debt ceiling crisis, if we hadn't had the self-inflicted fiscal cliff crisis, and if we hadn't had the self-inflicted sequester crisis? can you imagine that? >> it would be extraordinary. because what that would mean is that the american public would benefit from our politicians in a very sub...

The point? hey, we're going to make these cuts a year and a half from now, blind. we're going to make them indiscriminate, and surely that will get everyone to act. if these cuts are so sensele, surely everyone will come to an agreement. and sure enough -- that was back when maybe that was a slight more -- things were slightly more optimistic. >> and there certainly are some who are saying this is kind of a presidential campaign to destroy the republican party. here's what doug showen and patrick goodell wrote in "politico." the president is obviously going all out, but not to avoid the $85 bi...

Let us call it earl. it starts with e. the half the fact that nobody cares is nobody can remember the word sequester. and half the people who cannot remember sequester cannot spell it and the other half cannot define it. the sequester crisis? no wonder nobody cares. hence it is political storm earl, the fifth storm of the season. earl is expected to be a damaging storm. economically, earl is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, jobs in every state in the nation. so far the republican position on earl is that it is going to be devastating. and also, woo! let's do it, bring on earl. l...

Whereas 52% think that the worst is yet to come. your thoughts, mary katherine? >> well, this is an interesting point. she's right, but yes, the collapse, the big collapse had not at that point. you could argue we're stronger than we were right after that point. if you look at these numbers, the 52-40 for the worst is yet to come, this is worse than 2011 although it is slightly better than 2009. so people are on the down slope here, not -- they're not feeling the recovery obama is telling us we're having. alisyn: julie, are we just now a nation of pessimists? >> are you surprised? we're lurchi...

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