january 10th of 2009, if you know exactly, if you want to know exactly what will happen if we pass the stimulus take a look at this report from jared bernstein, christine romer, two of my staffers on incoming white house staff. it projected unemployment today would be 5.7%. you know, he said if we spend the trillion dollars it will give a big jump-start to the economy. we have the most anemic recovery of any 10 recessions since world war ii. we are about $4500 per capita gdp below where we would be if we had average recovery. we ve got about 13 million fewer people working. and then, you know, just the reality where we are. one out of every six americans is unemployed, working part-time but desfratly trying to get full-time work or so disgorged they dropped out the workforce. we know some of these people. they re friends, family, neighbors, former business colleagues. we know people find themselves in that situation. so is hard for the president to run against reality to say i ve done
goals. with your wife, with business colleagues. when you have a shared goal, you can sit down and work together and compromise. but we don t have shared goals with the democrats. senator, a lot of frustration over capitol hill for the fact republicans and democrats do not work together at all. is this positive for how you will look in the election in 2012? i think there is a difference between compromise and seeking common ground. which we did with the free trade agreements, i did with my colleague from colorado on legislation. those things seem to not get the attention because the president said he wants to run against a so-called do-nothing wrong. when there are accomplishments and common ground found, it seems the president wants to ignore that and only look for areas that divide us. we have a country with incredible debt. horrible spending issues. there is a lot we need to do to move this country ahead.
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just a few months. the ceo credits tow growth to an innovative city wide effort to jump-start the job market. it has been instrumental to our business. i m just taking the first step to hire one. and it led to us hiring in fact two and three. we re looking at the fourth employee. reporter: called hire one atlanta. and the idea, create a homegrown shift in confidence from inside the business community. the atlanta business chronicle created the campaign, to encourage every business to hire at least one new employee. they see that as peer pressure to grow. more companies following suit, as they see their business colleagues expand. it is very simple, the best ideas are simple. reporter: in just three months more than 1,000 companies have joined the campaign. almost 9,000 people are now back to work. thanks to a positive economic outlook created by hire one atlanta. the incentive is to change a half empty mindset to a half full mindset, realizing a lot of
create a home-grown shift in confidence from inside the business community. the atlanta business chronicle created the campaign, to encourage every business to hire at least 1 new employee, and they see that as peer pressure to grow. more companies following suit, as they see their business colleagues expand. it is very simple. some of the best ideas are simple. in three months, 1,000 companies joined the campaign and almost 9,000 people are now back to work thanks to a positive economic outlook created by hire one atlanta. the incentive is to change what is a half-empty mind set to a half-full one, realizing, a lot of companies that are indeed still hiring people. even in a down economy. i think the whole economy, the country and the world have been focused on this notion of stabilization. for the last two to three years, and i think everybody has to kick it back into high gear and think forward. she went on to say when you