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Untold. nobody knows what the real number is. >> i'm a little suspicious that it has impact on morale. when the country is feeling low, the economy has a harder time getting revved up. i think the fact that when we see our politicians inflicting this pain on us, and you see the president not showing the leadership to somehow rise above it and get the house and senate to come up with a solution, i think there's a huge dampening effect on our nation's morale. agree or not? >> i totally agree. in terms of the nation's morale, it wouldn't be very high now any way. but now you have millions of peop...

Real idea to do something when people are feeling the need and they're getting calls from constituents. meanwhile, i don't know if we'll be able to see moving forward if there will be this loud outcry like this was the airports. >> have you been able to determine whether the faa with this sequester cuts needed to furlough employees or was this kind of a sequester grandstanding to make a point which clearly they did. >> they did. they announced early on they were going to have to shut down control terminals and furlough all these people. this is something that the obama administration has been ...

Meals on wheels and the others, are you getting any sense that if -- piecemeal if people start opposing those as vociferously as people did the air-traffic controller furloughs, might congress have to then come back and do these sort of band-aid fixes? >> well, you know, one of the reasons that a lot of the house democrats were upset with the legislation on friday was they say this is a band-aid and we should be doing big sweeping bills. i feel like the momentum will run out to keep doing each of these smaller-type band-aid bills even if public outcry grows for each of these areas. >> okay. we...

Solutions? they do. people who in the meantime have only had their dwindling savings fall even further and are relying on you to strengthen the social safety net programs that they rely on for their own survival. since flight delays have you all hot and bothered about the sequester, how about the sequester cuts that slashed unemployment insurance by 10%? rb last year talking about what you would do to restore the economy and create jobs, well, now is the time to do it. the absence of long-term unemployed people from the workforce means a smaller tax base, fewer people contributing to the econo...

But wants it fixed for defense. quote, it is shameful for us to make allowances for the faa while doing nothing to stop the draconian cuts that are decimating our military today and putting our nation's security in danger. at the white house, jay carney called this a temporary solution that doesn't address the rest of the sequester cuts, but said president obama will sign it. >> the president believes it's good news to eliminate this problem, but as i've said and he believes, this is a band-aid covering a massive wound to the economy. >> democrats are clearly worried it looks like they rescued...