i want to buy gold, i want to buy foreign currency and foreign stocks that are going to hold up better in the event this impasse can t be resolved. kelly: jonathan, if the congressional acrimony continues, if we don t get a bottom line agreement or compromise on this, what does it mean for your 401(k) and what president obama calls the working stiff, the average american who continues to work every day and even for those unemployed? unfortunately, i think in my opinion, kelly it does them a great disservice, as the president talks about the corporate jet owners somehow harming wall street. keep in mind, excuse me, somehow hurting the average joe, those are very much the individuals who do the hiring, who do the expanding, who grow the economy. in my estimation by putting them in target, if you will, of washington, causes more uncertainty to create jobs and productivity in my estimation, the rich, poor, the washington, joe six-pack everyone wants the same thing. unfortunately many o
the rich, poor, the washington, joe six-pack everyone wants the same thing. unfortunately many of those who have that power, that control, aren t willing to take the risk in the environment that we have now, coming out of washington. kelly: bottom line, time to get something done. jonathan hoenig, thank you for bringing your fair assessment what s going on in washington, and how it s affecting the world. jamie: as police make arrest in the brutal beating of a man, his family has details of his condition. and death toll rising in norway, could this have been the work of one individual? we ll talk to a fbi advisor and terrorism expert next. in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release. continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal.
where is the disconnect? guest: it will resonate on election day. there is a huge disconnect between the media and joe six man. it is hard you are gassing up the car and going to the grocery store, back-to-schoolshipping will be a travesty and companies have no pricing power and they are trying to pass on the pricing to you and you will in the buy it. it is like a lose-lose situation. neil: i think it goes back to jobs, jobs return all of the problems pale by comparison but if the president sees steady job growth and unemployment rate is markedly higher than when he took office will he point to the trend, and could the trend help him? guest: in wall street we say the trend is your friend but the average time between someone getting fired and then gaining a job is the longest ever since world war ii. so for the first tie, we have
at the end of the day. cheryl: jonathan, our economy is not guaranteed anything in the last two years since 2008. no. i guess it s been a growth economy if you work for the government. the way it s sold is don t you care about the working person, don t you care about the public servant? meanwhile, who cares about the joe six-pack paying the taxes to fund all the pork, to fund the guaranteed pension benefits. charlie hit the nail on the head. i love a 7-8% guaranteed rate of return in the type of environment. it doesn t exist unless you work for the government. much of the staple lus money went to the state to keep the workforce fat and happy. did not go to the shovel-ready project. went to keep the bureaucrats in albany and sacramento. and trenton employed. cheryl: hold on, wayne. you started this off and i want to end it with you. all the governor is saying is give back a little bit, give in to the healthcare and pay a
order pizza tonight. i m you. reporter: all joking aside, the i am you political strategy is ubiquitous, seems to be in every politicians play book. if you wonder why? because it s been done. reporter: so politicians bowl, drink, hunt or ride a horse, but president reagan on a horse was a lot more subtle than, say, big clinton s i m like you grab. all those hamburgers and jogging shorts and marriage problems. he was a baby boomers i am you dream. he connected, and he won. thank you very much. reporter: actually, analysts say the i am like you strategy really exploded in 2008. everyday american people, joe six-pack, hockey moms across the nation, i think we need to band together and say never again. never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again. reporter: and although some