on and creating. everyone believed that at one point, including darrell issa who pushed for green jobs money in his own district back in his day and mitt romney put money into his own so ld india, kanarka the first stimulus was suppose to go for infrastructure and guess how much of the nearly trillion dollars went to it? it was 15 percent. jamie: are you talking about the shovel ready jobs? is that what you re saying, chris? we need another shovel ready job stimulus? there s not such thing as shovel ready jobs. the inaudible. we we should be putting money into projects money into bridges like that all over the country, we have crumbling infrastructure. jamie: there s no that is the it s a fair question, monica, chris, how are we going to pay for it. money has never been cheaper, interest rates have never been lower. we need to stimulate the economy, get people back to work and deal with the
hybrid. and there s nothing wrong with the administration saying that they re creating green jobs. right. jamie: but if the guy who pumps the gas into a school bus has a green job, don t you think the definition is a bit broad? well, it s a hybrid school bus, jamie, and you are wearing green shirt, so you kind of have a green job today so i m pretty excited about that! i have always said there are statistics and you can make them say whatever you want them to say. if the right says there are fewer green jobs they will include less people in that number, if the left wants to say there are a lot of green jobs we re going to include as many as we can in that number. jamie: why now, why is the left bragging about this statistic now? are they planning another stimulus? because taxpayers want to know. we d better be planning another stimulus and i think this should be more about infrastructure jobs, creating mass transit and bridges and tunnels and airports in this country, but that sa
this new number, 389, that s the real number to watch here, that signifies a weak economy. bill often times that revised number gets buried in the headlines because we lose sight of it as the weeks go by. what is ben bernanke going to do about this. the question is will pw pb bail barack obama. we ll find out. in 58 minutes, 10:00 eastern time this morning, we will find out what ben bernanke is going to do, if anything, to stimulate the economy. president obama is going to have a hard time getting any stimulus plan through congress, but ben bernanke can print money to stimulate the economy. will he? we don t know. but we ll find out at 10:00 eastern. bill: let s put a fine point on that with regard to another stimulus because everybody is writing about it in the past week. it will not pass the house, right, so the only way to get a federal stimulus is to go through the fed. yes. bill: what are the options there? lower interest rates? printing more money? or both? well, the bottom