>> good morning. >> our politicians say they care deeply about job creation. in light of what's going on, a, are they fibbing, b, living in a bubble or c, are they clueless about what really drives our economy? >> hmm, i might have to say d, all of the above. if you look, if you look at the statistics that are out there, every week that we would be in a government shutdown would save about 0.2% off of growth. doesn't sound like that much but in a month an entire percentage point of an economy growing a little above 2%. it's a serious head wind. >> this says it creates uncertainty in the economy and that means like maybe a major retailer like target won't be so willing to hire new people because the government can't seem to come up with one major plan on how to run our economy. >> absolutely, and i think that you can see the disconnect already. stock prices are still up, but that's because the federal