bill report. usually the white house says let s not pay too much attention to, you know, one month statistics there s lots of noise. look at this. david plouffe was on msnbc saying today is not a day for politics. exactly. amman, bring you back in here. amman, i m sure you re dusting off your the latest copy of your saul alinsky theology you re hiding behind your back. i do want to if i can take a moment to be a good morningy gust, this is the job of any president, but the long-term, structural unemployment numbers have not moved, 40% of the unemployed, i can t remember, 4.1 million people, i don t have the number with me, 4.8 million people, that is a staggering number and look, that is something that has dire repercussions for the american economy in the long term. longer you re out of work the harder it is to get a job. so this was a good jobs report.
if you look at the stimulus bill it didn t make sense on its own terms. 60 per of it was tax rebates or entitlement payment to individual. that s giving individual cash much of which would be saved. then you look at the $300 billion to be spent out over a course of years. in the first year and a half only 150 billion was spent. that s out of a 14 trillion dollar economy. that is not going to make the difference between 9% and 15%. bill report other thing she said is we have put the house back in play. i doubt that. the country is eager for a return of the speakership of nancy pelosi? it s just ridiculous. they had two years where they