group and more money for the taxpayers. negotiating for more money, more pension, more healthre. my bill simply says that we don t take away their right to collective bargaining and they can negotiate all day long, but do it on the union s dime ott on my dime the tax budget dime. the president of the american federation of government employee john gates says this official time rule brings gains in quality, productivity and efficiency year after year. it gives agencies of their employees the means to expeditiously and effectively utilize government input into mission related challenges of the agency. is this whow they talk in government as well as bring closure to conflicts that arise. as you say it is government speak and they are trying to
the southeast of the dallas area. enough rotation in the atmosphere we ll be seeing tornadoes throughout the evening. live pictures if we get to them. another tropical storm strengthening in the atlantic. very interesting. as it comes off the african coast, gets named igor and i ll tell you what, so dry there, the air across africa, pulling it across the water and immediately developing. this is going to be the one that we ll watch over the next week or so. five days from now, they re having it as a cat 2 storm maybe back towards the leeward islands and following a very familiar path like we ve seen from some of these storms over the last couple of weeks. thanks a lot. b.p. today is out with a new report on what it says caused the explosion that started the gulf oil disaster and in short, we re not the only ones to blame. in fact, eight separate failures were responsible for 13 deaths and more than 200 million gallons of oil gushing into the gulf. it s an internal investigation.
years, there are others who say far more than two or three years. i mean 100, 150 jobs created every year just to keep up with people graduating from high school and immigrating to this country who are going to get a job. so that shows you that it s a very you re going to have to have a strong, strong recovery, benjamin, to get us back to par, right? you are, indeed. and you want to look at both in politically and humanly about people to whom you say don t worry. in two or three years, maybe five, but probably two or three, you ll have a job again. that s two or three years of continued joblessness. that s desperate. the other missinging piece of the puzzle that we haven t talked about is the role of government. i disagree with steve. the stimulus bill is the best thing that s happened to the economy. an awful lot of that went to the states, went to jobs. and that was great. it broke the fall of the economy. it didn t bring us back, but it really helped break the fall and what we n
in two or three, maybe five, you ll have a job again. two or three years ever continued joblessness, that s desperate. the other missing piece we haven t talked about is the role of government. i disagree with steve. stimulus bill is the best thing that s happened to the economy and a lot of that went to states, to jobs, that was great. it broke the fall of the economy. it didn t bring us back, but it really helped break the fail and what we need is more partnership between the marketplace and government, not less, and right now getting real resistance to further government input. government is the place where we as a people do together which it can t do alone and helps make capitalism work. we ll talk about it more. talk about jobs when we come back. the government s role in all this and how we ll pay for a and a lot of record red ink in february. talk about all that in a moment. coming up, the blistering stock market rally helped grow the new crop of millionaires. for the rest of u