are meeting over some jurisdictional issues. for the residents in the washington, d.c. and the beltway area, three weeks of living on edge in constant fear is over. everyone was so glad it was over, and this mayhem has stopped, but there was also a lot of confusion of who these two guys were. they weren t what people were expectin expecting. the confusion is compounded by disbelief as other disturbing revelations emerge about john mohammad and lee malveaux, the two snipers eventually connected to dozens of shootings and robberies in at least five different states. they killed people in washington and they worked through texas and down to louisiana and alabama and i think they were in georgia, so itt no just the homicides here. john mohammad is clearly the mastermind, but people are stunned to find out his accomplice, lee boyd malvo is
local and state prosecutors are meeting over some jurisdictional issues. for the residents in the washington, d.c. and the beltway area, three weeks of living on edge in constant fear is over. everyone was so glad it was over, and this mayhem has stopped, but there was also a lot of confusion of who these two guys were. they weren t what people were expecting. the confusion is compounded by disbelief as other disturbing revelations emerge about john muhammad and lee malvo, the two snipers eventually connected to dozens of shootings and robberies in at least five different states. they killed people in washington and they worked through texas and down to louisiana and alabama and i think they were in georgia, so
for the residents in the washington, d.c. and the beltway area, three weeks of living on edge in constant fear is over. everyone was so glad it was over, and this mayhem has stopped, but there was also a lot of confusion of who these two guys were. they weren t what people were expecting. the confusion is compounded by disbelief as other disturbing revelations emerge about john muhammad and lee malvo, the two snipers eventually connected to dozens of shootings and robberies in at least five different states. they killed people in washington and they worked through texas and down to louisiana and alabama and i think they were in georgia, so itt no just the homicides here. john muhammad is clearly the mastermind, but people are stunned to find out his accomplice, lee boyd malvo is
washington d.c. being up there bordering that part of the state, the employment situation with the growth in the federal government has been pretty good, right? yeah, virginia has fared better during the recession than many other states. it s unemployment rate has been lower and number of other states. as you point out a lot of that is attributable to the fact that there is federal government jobs and spending in the kind of beltway area in northern virginia and on the other side in maryland. down in hampton roads along the eastern seaboard there is significant military installations, a lot of defense spending down there. one of the concerns for virginia, and one of of the things that has played out in both the presidential race here and the hotly contested u.s. senate race here is what the looming fiscal cliff and sequestration would mean for virginia going forward. jon: president obama won independents and in fact in part won the election if 2008 by winning the independents in virg
added 200,000 federal jobs from 09 and happens to be a fact. the real issue, it s not just this job, this person with the job in the capitol. there are three other jobs dependent on them in the outside. i live in the beltway area, the contractors, subcontractors, and sub-subcontractors, that s not reasonable and it s a private job. do you deny that the unemployment rate would be below 9% if government workers weren t cut every month as fast we re talking about the economy and at some point in time the economy gets stopped because they can t support all of the spending and that s the issue. tobin, there s going to be more government firing, state, local, federal. as there should be. in this administration than prior in the past hundred years. we can t afford them. the problem is the private sector is flat, you can t criticize, this is the first in the 2000 s, government workers jumped, private sector workers declined and whole decades and that s luckily,