we have it. even though we are 50 years removed from the civil rights act, we re facing some of the same problems in the year 2014 that african-americans were facing in native americans and latinos were facing in the 1930s, 40s and 50s and 60s. i m glad to see progress. we ve got a black president own black attorney general and blacks in business leading institutions of high ed ed indicatied indication. all sorts of problems in the 21st century that we thought were involved with the voting rights act more than 50 years ago. mark, when it comes to voting rights act and the way the supreme court dismantled parts of it, it feels there is not the coalition that there was 50 years ago to pass reforms.
that s not new jobs. right. he said 2 million americans are working today who would not be working if there had not been an economic stimulus package. right. here s the question, ali. is the president telling us the truth? it is disputable to what that number is. the estimates range from 800,000 on the low end to 2.4 million on the high ed. these are economists making this estimates. so hard to know. i wouldn t say that the president is not telling the truth. the issue is how you decide what was saved and what was created. if you want to try to dwit the number of dollars spend by the number of jobs created, that s a tough thing to do. a lot of money was spend on extending unemployment benefits, food stamps, things like that that were necessary for the time we were going through. they don t necessarily result in brand-new jobs created. a third went for tax cuts, for 95% of working families. a third went for health care