him. congressman from ohio. bites a sandwich, he i guess his tooth falls out and two toes dropped off his feet and he is suing. you are making fun of him? i love the champion of the little man who braces the calf cafeteria lady for 150 k. to me kucinich is emblematic of modern liberalism. two ways to approach a problem. eating a sandwich and see an olive. roll it around in your mouth take a tentative bite. peel it back a little. can you look for a pit. if there is no pit you bite into it. if there is a pit you take the pit out and bite into it. that would be the conservative way. then there is the kucinich way. there is an olive, i m going to bite through it caution be damned and if there is a pit in there, i m suing somebody over it. so there is there is the liberal way right there. bill: i don t think it was a
it s good money. oh yeah. bill: it s a good time to work for the government. look, it s an astonishing increase in high income earners who work for the federal government, a doubling in the number making 150k, just since president obama took office. that really is astonishing. add in basically a job for life, pretty good benefits, and this pay raise that is coming, you ve got yourself a clash between the federal workers and their pay scale and the obama administration and the incoming republicans. the republicans want a pay freeze. in other words, no pay increase. and they want to cut the number of federal workers. you ve got a big clash coming, and this report is in usa today, this comes just at the moment where the clash is about to arrive. bill: the obvious headline is the federal government is growing. oh yes. bill: growing in leaps and bounds for the past five years alone. if you work for the federal government you should be happy. by the way, the three wealthiest counties
and that cost the economy 45,000 jobs. so you add that in, private sector job creation was probably closer to 50k. that s very disconcerting. we need to create somewhere between 10 and 150k per month just to maintain a stable rate of unemployment. something closer to 200k plus per month to bring down unemployment. we are a long way from anything anyone would be comfortable with. mark, i know it mibl hard to find in these numbers, is there a silver lining? we ve had 30 minutes to look through them so this is a first cut. is there something if you re the obama administration, that you ve got a talking point this friday or not? well, the key thing here is businesses aren t laying off workers they re laying off workers but not at an accelerated race. they re not doing that yet. they just simply stopped in their tracks. if policymakers including the administration, congress, the federal reserve can act