of uninsured citizens than other districts where people so the word they re going to start feeling this. they re going to start hearing this. they re going to start realizing that they re out of step with their base that way. joan s exactly right. we have to wrap it up. but i just want to point out we re approaching the 50 year anniversary of the war on poverty. and the greatest anti-poverty program, and older people know this better than anybody is social security. we should always remember that was the platform from which the whole safety net began. anybody out there over 65 knows how important the rather social security benefits are to your retirement plan, and without it, think where you would be, without them as a big building block, and sometimes the only building block. thank you very much senator sherrod brown of ohio and joan walsh. coming up, the republicans aren t just playing defense on unemployment and minimum wage. they still have the fever called for obama dera
stocks were up again today, big. the dow gains over 100 points which under president obama s term is hardly a surprise. take a look at how far we ve come since president obama inherited a weak economy and unstable economy from his predecessor george w. bush back in january of 2009? look at that. it s a 45-degree angle ever since. since then the dow gained more than 7,000 points and has more than doubled since its recession low up roughly 110 points since w. was president. and when president obama came in, the private sector was losing over 800,000 jobs a month. by april of 2010, the economy was adding over 200,000 jobs a month. shouldn t the private sector, big guys be thanking this president? big question for me, there. jim cramer is host of msnbc s mad money. actually cnbc s mad money and author of the great new book get rich carefully. it s a great old quote, if you want to live like a republican, vote like a democrat. if w. or one of the lesser minds of the republican party l
this is going to backfire on them. and joan is right about that, chris. so many people, so many of these very conservative southern districts and southern states have significantly higher rates of uninsured citizens than other districts where people so the word they re going to start feeling this. they re going to start hearing this. they re going to start realizing that they re out of step with their base that way. joan s exactly right. we have to wrap it up. but i just want to point out we re approaching the 50 year anniversary of the war on poverty. and the greatest anti-poverty program, and older people know this better than anybody is social security. we should always remember that was the platform from which the whole safety net began. anybody out there over 65 knows how important the rather social security benefits are to your retirement plan, and without it, think where you would be, without them as a big building block, and sometimes the only building block. thank yo
and get a quote now. we re back. stocks were up again today, big. the dow gains over 100 points which under president obama s term is hardly a surprise. take a look at how far we ve come since president obama inherited a weak economy and unstable economy from his predecessor george w. bush back in january of 2009? look at that. it s a 45-degree angle ever since. since then the dow gained more than 7 ,000 points and has more than doubled since its recession low up roughly 110 points since w. was president. and when president obama came in, the private sector was losing over 800,000 jobs a month. by april of 2010, the economy was adding over 2 00,000 jobs a month. shouldn t the private sector, big guys be thanking this president? big question for me, there. jim cramer is host of msnbc s mad money. actually cnbc s mad money and author of the great new book get rich carefully.