that we haven t made any progress on that front. we wound down two wars, we changed the tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthiest americans at the expense of the middle class. you add it up, we have cut our deficits by more than half, and they continue to go down faster than any time since world war ii. so all totalled, our businesses have created 7.8 billion jobs, america has gone farther, recovered faster than most other industrialized nations. but as melody said, we ve got more work to do. stock markets are doing great. corporate profits soaring. but too many americans aren t sharing in that success. and everybody here good afternoon, i m joy reid in for martin bashir. we ve been watching president obama wrapping up his three-day west coast tour, speaking on the economy at dreamworks, the force behind animated hits like
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says people are sleeping on the job, the education level is very low. he says when janet napolitano says we have a great defense at tsa she is kid nothing his opinion. it makes it looks like the $7.8 billion of taxpayer money that goes into the tsa is a big waste of money. should we rethink the whole say that we are going about this, peter? stpheu think the whistle-blower is pointing out just one aspect of tsa and it really is not a surprise. we ve always known that working at these checkpoints is mind numbing, but there are two places where i think the tsa needs to do better. they promised us years ago a check-point of the future, the idea was we were going to have technology that would make sure that human failings would not allow bombs and other dangerous devices to get through. we don t have that yet.
on two points one particular, one is this touchy issue of profiling. we cannot continue to pretend that we can t or shouldn t proceed vial potential terrorists. we need to use that in our procedures. secondly, you know, this is such a frustrating argument that there are so many people standing around, as you say 7.8 billion, are we really getsin getting the best and most efficient security? remember, prior to 9/11 the checkpoints were all privatized. i don t know if going back is the right race but ep certainly raising the standards at the checkpoints is something we ought to look at seriously. martha: we have to keep some focus on this issue. thank you for helping us do that gay. peter goelz, thanks for talking with us. bill: jon scott standing by eleven minutes away how are you doing. jon: i am doing well. the president wants more revenue, republicans want more
in andrew we took $45 billion. ike in 2008, $27.8 billion. here we are how many days, weeks after sandy and we re sitting around talking about we ll do it only if you can tell me where we re going to take it from in spending? i mean, at what point do we put the american lives over american politics? a couple things. the delay s inexcusable. even though i voted against the provisions this evening, i made it clear to my friends in new york and new jersey going back to before christmas that i thought we should have moved on this quicker. i can t defend that. i won t defend that. but what you re talking about here is again, we re going back to the funding issue. not the use of this. well, congressman, we re going to have to leave it there. thank you for coming on. you always come on. we certainly disagree more than we agree, certainly tonight i disagree with you, but i respect