democrats have been warned by pollsters like stan greenberg among those voters who are still out of work, a triumphant message of we solved the problem is not the lead but seen as offensive and not getting it right. they are walking a very clear political tight rope between saying our approach is beginning to produce benefits. that has to be the core message but i still feel your pain. david gregory put it really well on morning joe talking about the recovery act. he said the game of jobs is not being felt. it s not that there weren t jobs created or saved it s whether they were felt. with added jobs through the recovery act but we lost 8 million jobs in this recession. kind of the deck chair off the queen mary. some people loss value in their homes. so many people are afraid of losing their jobs. as the new york times said the government predicts the jobless rate will average 9.8% next
if he s fully cooperative, the amount of information he has is no doubt substantial. i suspect the main influence on the taliban on those who member willing to negotiate with the americans and the government of president karzai would be if they believe the americans are there not long haul, if the americans continue to be quite aggressive, i think that is much more likely to have an impact than anything mr. baradar might send out vie at pakistanis. sometimes senior members of militant organizations when they re capture the give us everything. the head of the pkk when he was captured by the turks followed like a cheap deck chair, cried like a baby, gave them everything. they dismembered that organization. did significant damage to it.
ultimately you re going to do more to help the deficit. so that s the judgment call that this budget reflects. it s a gamble, savannah. obviously, if it doesn t work, america s even deeper in debt, more indebted to china and others around the world. but is that a gamble the white house felt like they had to take? reporter: well, yeah. i think they felt they had to spend some money on job growth. of course, let s keep it in perspective here. it s $100 billion he s proposing, which is the proverbial deck chair off the queen mary in terms of deficits. we all know it s the built-in entitlement spending that really drives up our deficits. it s the 2001, 2003 tax cuts that weren t paid for, the prescription drug benefit. that adds a lot to the deficit. but look, the president has played his own roam here, too, need i mention the $787 billion stimulus plan. so look, republicans and democrats, the president, this one, the last one, congress, they all have a role here in why we have these h
you will cut 100 billion? that is one deck chair on the titanic. john: it is good across the board. if their actual cuts. i would do 20% across-the-board but that scares people because they think let s save the things that are important and cut the things that are not. it is all important. the tax increases sound scarier of 400 billion but we have a $1 trillion deficit. each year we spend $1 trillion more than we take 10. so to raise taxes by 400 billion we have already raised them 1 trillion in the future. it is probably a good idea to say the spending is not a free lunch.
that s the deck chair on the titanic. it s not really a dramatic change. might be good if it s across the board. if they are actual cuts i think that s good. i tut 10 percent across the board if i had my drtuthers. let s save the things that are really important and cut the things that are not important. test all or not. it s all crucial. connection increases but we have a trillion dollar deficit. we are already spending each year a trillion more than we take in. saying we are going to raise taxes by 400 billion in one year, we are already raising them a trillion in the future. so to me the idea of raising taxes is probably a good idea. it says this spending that we have been doing is not a free