that s what the experts say is driving the election. jobs and jobless numbers. all candidates on the stump today in new hampshire and south carolina say they can do better on the job front than president obama. some are making claims about their own job creating records that don t stand up to scrutiny. their case against the administration got a little harder to make. that s because new job numbers came out. unemployment fell down two-tenths of a percent. these are decent, not spectacular numbers for recovery by mi means. president obama was cautious. there are a lot of people that are still hurting out there. after losing more than 8 million jobs in the recession, obviously, you know, we have a lot more work to do. state and local government workers have been hardest hit. nearly a quarter million public sector jobs eliminated last year including more than 100,000 teachers. jon huntsman called the report good news but said we could be doing better. ron paul said the same
some are making claims about their own job-creating records that don t stand up to scrutiny. their case against the administration today got harder to make because new job numbers came out, unemployment fell again last month, down .2 to 8.5%. the economy gaping 200,000 jobs, 50,000 more than expected. these are decent, not spectacular by any means and president obama was cautious. there are a lot of people still hurting out there after losing more thain 8 million jobs in the recession, obviously, we have a lot more work to do. state and local government workers hardest hit, nearly a quarter million public sector jobs eliminated last year, including more than 100,000 teachers. jon huntsman called today s job report good news but said we can be doing better. ron paul said the same but warped the financial crisis is not over. rick santorum, the other gop candidates, were less generous. is great that the economy is moving forward. but it has got a boot on the throat of the
his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he s going to take his time. stay with us, we ll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment
for president obama because he made it very clear that he would veto exactly this. the problem is that, you know, senator carl levin, who runs the defense committee in the senate, you know, he has to negotiate with republicans and going forward democrats will have to negotiate even more and so they re going to strike these kinds of deals. if president obama does not make good on a veto threat that will take a real important threatening tool that, really the only one the president has off the table for future negotiations on things on this. bill: charlie, does this mean gitmo stays open indefinitely? i think absolutely it does. i think quite frankly i would argue it would anyway because the politics of that have been so bad for president obama. he already sort of, you know, kicked this thing down the road for two years now and so i think that this absolutely would . bill: on day one, january of 09, that was the first executive order he signed to
he worked on the health care reform for the obama administration from january of 09 to january this year. zeke, thank you very much for joining we have a couple simple questions here. one of them is, if the supreme court wipes out the individual mandate that makes young people, healthy people, pay some sort of health insurance premium, will that kill the financing structure of the obama bill? well, it does what it puts it into a debt spiral. plenty of places have tried to have exchanges where people go and buy insurance without a mandate. voluntary. what you end up happening is healthy people don t go in until they get sick and that leads to a death spiral because costs just rise, becomes only the sick get insurance and makes them very unstable. all ten have failed. yeah, so it s just like social security. you know, the idea of making it mandatory is so people who don t feel like saving or can t save are forced to save by taxing them. thereby, they are forced to take