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Are spending. if you look at the jobs numbers they haven't changed that much in the last few years. wages are not up. if you think about our consumer economy, 70% is based on consumer spending you can't have a sustained robust recovery unless people have more money to spend and that requires the unemployment rate going down so it's a chicken and egg cycle. >> greg, republicans jumped on this report, house speaker john boehner saying "the president's policies continue to make it harder for americans to find work. hundreds of thousands fled the workforce last month and unemployment remains far a...

Proposal, it was higher taxes than ever, and another stimulus, more wasteful spending. >> right. >> rather than really looking at this other side of the equation. and that's going to be so important. >> and i agree with you and i'm going to assume that your answer means if they came with significant -- i do think, mike, it is -- it is so washington. it's such a washington idea to say, you know what we're going to do? we're going to raise taxes on people, and it's going to slow down the economy, so we need another stimulus spending plan. that's your idea -- >> mike -- >> away from a fiscal clif...

Last couple of days since obama started rolling out the plans nothing is going to happen before the election. there is no way that congress is going come back and manage to get any of this stuff through. even have some democrats including michael bennett, the senator from ohio who said that he would vote against an infrastructure plan if obama proposed it. i don't think dems want anything like this to pass before the election. i think republicans are satisfied with the status quo for now as well. >> i think you're right about that. a standoff going here. always a pleasure. thanks so much. >> t...