dramatic set of job numbers in august, september and october. three more jobs reports before the election. unless there s significant difference in the job, unemployment number and the number of jobs being created i think their goose is cooked. greta: how can you say we are moving in the right direct? unemployment number is the same. people have dropped out so that number is the same. if you look at shopping centers, there aren t cars in parking lots any more. drive down main street you see the for lease signs. maybe the stock exchange is bouncing back up. the real jobs . people work in a real place in businesses and enterprises across america. even if those businesses are doing well there s a high degree of certainty about the future, owners, managers and workers are concerned about the future. until that confidence returns, things are not going to be good politically for the
dramatic set of job numbers in august, september and october. three more jobs reports before the election. unless there s significant difference in the job, unemployment number and the number of jobs being created i think their goose is cooked. greta: how can you say we are moving in the right direct? unemployment number is the same. people have dropped out so that number is the same. if you look at shopping centers, there aren t cars in parking lots any more. drive down main street you see the for lease signs. maybe the stock exchange is bouncing back up. the real jobs . people work in a real place in businesses and enterprises across america. even if those businesses are doing well there s a high degree of certainty about the future, owners, managers and workers are concerned about the future. until that confidence returns, things are not going to be good politically for the
indicators the ones that you mentioned, they are starting to slide down again. that has a lot of people nervous. i hate to bring up the term double dip the idea that we might slip back into a recession that would be extremely painful given we still have a 9.7% unemployment rate. we have to be climbing out of this right out in indicators are trickling down. greta: i travel a lot. to drive through these cities and you find so many for lease signs and so many places going out of business not encouraging. i was in florida last month, every other shopping center is empty in cities like tampa naples. las vegas is really hurting, arizona, a lot of states that boomed in the 90s and the last five years are really hurting right now. greta: stimulus bill february 09, a lot of people opposed, even the people opposed, good americans hoped it worked. it had to get time, runway to
indicators the ones that you mentioned, they are starting to slide down again. that has a lot of people nervous. i hate to bring up the term double dip the idea that we might slip back into a recession that would be extremely painful given we still have a 9.7% unemployment rate. we have to be climbing out of this right out in indicators are trickling down. greta: i travel a lot. to drive through these cities and you find so many for lease signs and so many places going out of business not encouraging. i was in florida last month, every other shopping center is empty in cities like tampa naples. las vegas is really hurting, arizona, a lot of states that boomed in the 90s and the last five years are really hurting right now. greta: stimulus bill february 09, a lot of people opposed, even the people opposed, good americans hoped it worked. it had to get time, runway to
politicians to put off real decisions for an extra year because it gave them the money to avoid making tough decisions. we are going to run out of that this year. we are now faced with the fact that government is too expensive. it is too big. and we are going to have to fundamentally replace a lot of failing systems if we are going to get back to being a successful country. greta: here on the streets in washington you don t teal unemployment because of the government and government is not cutting people. 20 miles outside of d.c. shop after shop of for lease signs, businesses closed down. atlanta where one of my daughters lives miami where for daughter lives or crisscross the country as i do making speeches and talking to people this is a country in which the average american understands we are in deeper trouble economically than anybody who today, who is under 80 years of age has ever seen. greta: it is grim. mr. speaker, thank you sir.