and the president promised stimulus, prevent unemployment from getting above 8%, it s been above 8% for 42 months and it was borrowing, spending and giving out to cronies like solyndra, that did not work to create jobs and meanwhile, we have economic stagnation and that s why the romney-ryan plan for a stronger middle class are the kind of things you need to do to create jobs, higher take home pay, more jobs, faster economic growth and to what are often solutions and the reason that stimulus didn t work at the time it didn t pass, it s bad economics, didn t work and all of these boon doggles is not a way to grow the economy. if borrowing and spending and taxing and regulating are were the secret for economic growth. would have been the golden age. and even the democrats begrudgingly give you props, you talked about when were you a kid you talked about redoing budgets and the deficit in the ryan policy and quickly, syria,
bringing in former chief of staff for the army, jack keane, show us your insights for any part of the world, but this in particular, a night maryish situation of chemical weapons that fall into the wrong hands. what concerns should we have here in america, about syria s ass losing control of these weapons? well, certainly, we have two fundamental concerns about syria as the assad regime continues to lose more and more control of its own country. and that is number one, who will be the post assad regime that we ll have to deal with. and number two, what about those chemical weapons? the size and scale of those weapons as you noted, is very significant and dramatic. and you can be rest assured for a number of weeks now, the central intelligence agency and the masad out of israel,
where are those sites and what does it take to secure them. general, as you know, that s been dialog between the allies and united states, as well as israel to determine what to do here. the u.s. still has no plans, however, to put boots on the ground in syria or even to enforce a no-fly zone. what can the united states actually expect to do, given syria s chemical weapons and the fact that they could fall into the wrong hands like al-qaeda and hezbollah? that s certainly our concern is, that we would lose control of those weapons and these radicals, in hezbollah or in al-qaeda or other groups, regaining control of them and mayhem that they can cause with those is rather traumatic. look, the cia is not going to announce what the plans are and what they actually have plans. and certainly i guess what i m getting at though, and i know, i m basically talking about what s happening with the obama administration, because we ve seen at that diplomacy through the u.s. has failed so far
anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons and there s evidence that they ve received some of the weapons though not in the numbers that they want. how they got there, we don t know whether they re through a third party or ally m the region, i think what we re attempting to do now is establish relationships with those groups who are in syria, so that we have some influnce to to shape events in a post assad regime. and that s the thing that takes place geopolitically and a plan to secure and general, if i could unpack what you said, reading between the lines. what i hear you saying, while the president may not publicly be talking about it, behind the scenes at the cia and other counter intelligence and terrorism efforts, something is being done on the ground to try to help forward the cause of the united states and other allies, very much concerned about what happens to the chemical weapons. we can rest assure that that is actually taking place. and i mean, i don t ask the ceo tho
those numbers would suggest and i think if we needed a sizable force to do something like that, i think we would go to a multinational force in the region to endorse that kind of security. absolutely. general, we thank you as always, a lot of questions there, and you cut right through all of the media reports about what s happening in syria and get down to the suggest glar jugular, what is being done so far. general jack keane, thank you. thank you, kelly. jamie: we thank you, as well. and the latest job numbers show up tick in unemployment in 44 states, that includes, interestingly, most of the key swing states and presidential election, that of posting the highest unemployment rate at 12% and rhode island and california trailing right behind. what does it mean for the economy overall. jonathan hoenig, capitalist pig hedge fund and a regular on cashing in. great to see you, jonathan. great to be with you. and it s capitalist pig.com. isn t it?