clouds over the real story here and that is safety issue for many of the residents not just in norfolk but something in a similar fashion happens across communities across the area and the other issue is with the virginian pilot. laura: we will get to the pilot issue in a second. say it were a group of 30 white kids or more, we don t know the exact number. and there were two african american individuals, maybe reporters, maybe a couple inner that car, and they descended upon that car and news organizations were not either reporting on it or it was difficult to get that information let s say from police. i have a feeling the outrage would be expressed quite vehemently in certain circles. this it case, two weeks go by. no one reports anything. no one even asks, i don t know if you ask for the foia request but we asked for information from the police and if it is not forthcoming. maybe there is food reason for it, fine. maybe there is good reason
certainly not out of ideas. we are just out of political will. the recovery hasn t happened and the time is way past due to directly create jobs so that we can actually get to the business of restoring our fiscal footing. and steven, do we need something like a wpa now, where the government is actually an engine of growth by spending money and so forth because i don t know. i don t see the will to spend money when we already spent the $800 billion plus on the stimulus that had short term benefits. to borrow a phrase from the president, laura, we tried it your way and it didn t work. we have tried everything in terms of government spending creates jobs. the $800 billion stimulus bill. $00 billion of mortgage modifications programs. cash for clunkers. auto bailouts. i could go down the list.
clouds over the real story here and that is safety issue for many of the residents not just in norfolk but something in a similar fashion happens across communities across the area and the other issue is with the virginian pilot. laura: we will get to the pilot issue in a second. say it were a group of 30 white kids or more, we don t know the exact number. and there were two african american individuals, maybe reporters, maybe a couple inner that car, and they descended upon that car and news organizations were not either reporting on it or it was difficult to get that information let s say from police. i have a feeling the outrage would be expressed quite vehemently in certain circles. this it case, two weeks go by. no one reports anything. no one even asks, i don t know if you ask for the foia request but we asked for information from the police and if it is not forthcoming. maybe there is food reason for it, fine. maybe there is good reason
certainly not out of ideas. we are just out of political will. the recovery hasn t happened and the time is way past due to directly create jobs so that we can actually get to the business of restoring our fiscal footing. and steven, do we need something like a wpa now, where the government is actually an engine of growth by spending money and so forth because i don t know. i don t see the will to spend money when we already spent the $800 billion plus on the stimulus that had short term benefits. to borrow a phrase from the president, laura, we tried it your way and it didn t work. we have tried everything in terms of government spending creates jobs. the $800 billion stimulus bill. $00 billion of mortgage modifications programs. cash for clunkers. auto bailouts. i could go down the list. you will of the deluge of
certainly not out of ideas. we are just out of political will. the recovery hasn t happened and the time is way past due to directly create jobs so that we can actually get to the business of restoring our fiscal footing. and steven, do we need something like a wpa now, where the government is actually an engine of growth by spending money and so forth because i don t know. i don t see the will to spend money when we already spent the $800 billion plus on the stimulus that had short term benefits. to borrow a phrase from the president, laura, we tried it your way and it didn t work. we have tried everything in terms of government spending creates jobs. the $800 billion stimulus bill. $00 billion of mortgage modifications programs. cash for clunkers. auto bailouts. i could go down the list.