going to lose. wednesday comes the government to improve itself in the private continues trags between the bank and the borrower. these banks have been doing things that mess up this country. the robo signer that is you mentioned the ninja loans to people with no assets no jobs this is is craziness. my only problem is they didn t do it sooner. does the government have a right to shake them down? because they bailed the banks out, chris? complain, yes. to institute suggestions code of conduct for how you handle the paperwork as a regulatory agency yes but not forts them to suffer losses for doing nothing wrong. who will absorb those losses? the bank loses 150,000. multiply that out by thousands of mortgages. the bank is willing to take less risk on the retail side. it would curtail lending or hurt the housing recovery the government actions over here.
out are getting crushed. and he said abandon ideology. mr. bush says that s an abandonment, but that s the toxic vote on the trail. and he s the only one talking about it. jest knows t.a.r.p. is being repaid. who is talking about it. it s unpopular because people still don t understand why we bailed the banks out. they don t grasp the concept. it s in america s best interest if bush doesn t talk about it. if you talk to voters, they plame obama for t.a.r.p. it started under bush, but maybe it s the ideology. maybe he could afford a better backdrop for that. smoke in the background. thanks. when we come back, a lot more to discuss. npr fires juan williams.
so people are looking for a job. they re desperate for a job. reporter: average weekly unemployment benefits range from hawaii s $419 a week to mississippi, at $190 a week. in new york, leslie pink s weekly check is just over $400. i paid my taxes, i ve done everything a responsible citizen is supposed to do, and they re going to cut me off, and they bailed the banks out. it s infuriating to me. reporter: the next step comes with the senate where many republicans say they would have voted for the $30 billion vote if democrats came up with ways to offset the costs. lawmakers are taking a week-long break. by the time they reconvene, it s estimated that 2 million americans will have lost their jobless benefits. mary snow, cnn, new york. so i have a lot of questions about this economy and how it s impacting you, your life, your family. i want to hear from you. what are your questions, what are your frustrations with the current state of the economy? if you would, share your stories
in new york, leslie pink s weekly check is just over $400. i have paid my taxes and done everything a responsible citizen is supposed to do, and they are going to cut me off and they have bailed the banks out? it is infuriating to me. suzanne, the next step comes with the senate where many republicans said they would have voted for $30 billion bill if democrats came up with a way to offset the costs. now, the lawmakers are taking a week-long break and by the time they reconvene, it is estimated that roughly 2 million people will have lost their jobless benefits. suzanne. a lot of people suffering in the meantime, while they work it out. thank you, mary. lisa sylvester is monitoring some of the other top stories in the situation room. hey, lisa. hi, suzanne. 38 people are dead in at a tack on a shrine in pakistan. they say they found the remains of two bombers, one of whom set off an explosion in the shrine s courtyard and one was stuck on the lower level.
the teeth necessary to prevent any sort of future crisis that led to this one bailing out the big banks? i don t think it does have the teeth to do that to be honest with you. i mean, larsonous behavior exists and i don t see how you can really effectively control it. i like a lot of what he said by the way. i love the accountability, the transparency. and i also like the idea of washington reform. but i really think he misses the boat when he says we had to bail these banks out, we had to use taxpayer money. there was no reason in my mind why we should have used taxpayers money in the first place and there s no idea in my mind that anyone is too big to fail. the only reason they re too big to fail, alex, is because the government believed they were and then used taxpayers money. that s where i stand on it. so you think some of the banks should have gone under? oh, i believe they should have gone under right away and i