cutting spending fit into the equation? cutting spending will mean more public sector job loss, no question. which means you ll have another drag here. for the gop you have the kind of double-edged sword for them in these economic numbers, if you re talking about the politics of the jobs report. most people aren t talking about politics. they re talking about the personal economy and whether there are more opportunities. if this is going to swing into politics real fast. possibly within the next few minutes. diane is the chief economist at messero financial. what is wrong? why after seeing and feeling an kbhi that looked like it was chugging along quite nicely have we seen this? we saw the revision to the last couple of months. what has weakened? a couple of things are important. first we juice the economy with unseasonably warm winter weather. we had payback to that. these numbers go far behind payback to unseasonably warm winter weather. they re weak in a lot of areas
of data. you like to see the trend for markets and economics. after three months of 200,000 jobs created or more, people are saying, look, it s healing. things are going to get better. the rearview mirror is a slow jobs recovery. then you have a stall here. when your biggest customer has countries in it that are in recession, that doesn t mean if you re a big company in this country you wan to be adding a lot of workers. that could be a big bart of it. i want to look at the private sector of public sector jobs. 82,000 private sector jobs created. 13,000 public job sectors lost. there s the tug of war for the economy. the private sector trying to create jobs. the public sector losing jobs. you ll hear people in the gop say, look, this shows the president s policies aren t working. the problem is what is the answer to that? if the president s policies aren t working, how do those cutting spending fit into the equation? cutting spending will mean more public sector job loss,
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ethnic kurds were holding a peace rally, when dozens of young men en masse apparently hijacked that rally. this set off a confrontation with police and kurds are the minority and they ve been out on the streets protesting because many are angry the turkish military have been attacking their villages. president obama is moving his big speech on jobs from next wednesday to next thursday night. john boehner turned down the president s request to address congress wednesday. why? it would be hard. winds whipping 25 miles per hour are spreading west of dallas ft. worth. some 39 homes have been destroyed. 125 families are being forced out of their homes and we have just learned some evacuation orders have been lifted with at least half the fire now contained. it s ugly. it s real ugly. it keeps flaring up, the wind is crazy. the smoke was so see. you had to crawl through it as low as you could in your truck. check this out a fire in oklahoma city is threatening to jump inter
and apple set to unveil the ipad 2. but the battle of tablets are heating up because other companies are out with their versions, as well. what everyone wants to know, will steve jobs make an appearance today on this american morning? it s 6:00, thanks so much for joining us on this wednesday, march 2nd. i m kiran chetry. and i m ali velshi. i was just going to say, congratulations this morning, mine is now obsolete. we ll be having an interview later on this morning. we do have important developments out of libya we were telling you about. moammar gadhafi is not going down without a fight. right now violence is erupting in eastern libya 500 miles from tripoli. witnesses say the town of ajdabiya was under control of rebel forces until a few hours ago when pro-gadhafi troops seized it back. now, later today a formal request for military help is expected to come from opposition forces in the rebel-controlled city of benghazi. they don t want our help on the ground, bu