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Take a vote. stop this farce. and end this shutdown right now. >> the american people agree. stop this farce. and here's a tip. don't blame park rangers for your dirty work. joining me now, a former governor, ed rendell, democrat of pennsylvania, and goldie taylor. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> governor, blaming a park ranger for a closed memorial. i mean-v you ever seen anything like this? >> no. it's the most hypocritical thing i've seen in politics, and politics is a hypocritical business, as you know, rev. but i've never seen anything -- i've never seen anything that reac...

Up with in terms of government waste. there was a lot in the stimulus. the stimulus was nearly a trillion dollars. the president later joked we didn't have as many shovel ready jobs as we thought we had. >> greta: yeah, he joked. >> go to google stimulus and waste and you can read for hours about wasteful stimulus projects. i wrote about one a couple of years ago. a couple hundred thousand dollars that went to state university of new york in buffalo to a professor studying the effects of smoking pot and drinking malt liquor at the same time as opposed to just smoking pot or just drinking malt ...

To see someone go through the budget and see where our money is going. >> exactly, that's why it's so important to have a budget and so bad we've gone now four years without passing a budget. the last time in the united states senate, there was no such thing as the ipad. no one heard of it, it wasn't on the market. >> greta: i don't know if the viewers know what profound waste is. i remember during the president's stimulus bill we spent 20 million dollars on signs that these were stimulus projects. 20 million dollars on signs, do we really need signs and sort of figure it out, there was constr...

Although you said you oppose the stimulus package, you signed a couple of letters asking for stimulus projects and therefore, you were against it while you were against it and for it while you were against it. can you leer that up? >> sure. my office sends various letters to several agencies. it was treated as a case work request. i take full responsibility for it. it wasn't my intention to send letters supporting stimulus. but this doesn't change the fact that the stimulus was a bomb. it didn't work. it was a boondoggle. borrowing and spending, spending money on things like solyndra, that doe...

Actually you receive part of your coverage but not all of it and that's the best way to actually look at this and in one respect like the 401(k) defined contributions save you a lot of money but you have a weaker benefit. >> let me switch quickly to what i think we talked about a lot this vetting of paul ryan by the media now from his assertion over the stimulus. it turns out he did seek funds for two companies to what we call the tough talk on china's currency manipulation which you point out in your first read as well. >> right. one of paul ryan's greatest strengths is he isn't seen as your ...