saying we need more. the economy s overheating but let s spend and put more fire on the economy. we have almost 9 million jobs with fewer than 8 million people looking for work. their formula for success is miserable. it s interesting, because the president in a town hall this week and he cited this quote from mark zande, the economist from moody s as their argument for why they believe that inflation will be transitory. he said worries that the plan will ignite inflation and overheated economy are overdone. the fiscal support it provides is only sufficient to push the economy back to full employment from the recession caused by the covid-19 pandemic. and then if i may just go to this, this is also from that same town hall. president biden arguing and really conceding for one of the first times that the additional benefits that americans got may have kept some of them home.
saying we need more. the economy s overheating but let s spend and put more fire on the economy. we have almost 9 million jobs with fewer than 8 million people looking for work. their formula for success is miserable. it s interesting, because the president in a town hall this week and he cited this quote from mark zande, the economist from moody s as their argument for why they believe that inflation will be transitory. he said worries that the plan will ignite inflation and overheated economy are overdone. the fiscal support it provides is only sufficient to push the economy back to full employment from the recession caused by the covid-19 pandemic. and then if i may just go to this, this is also from that same town hall. president biden arguing and really conceding for one of the first times that the additional benefits that americans got may have kept some of them home.
today wisconsin is a fall preview. they look at wisconsin, and they see america s battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and penal who want to divide and conquer. democratic challenger and milwaukee mayor tom barrett on his bid to oust the republican governor in a recall race. then battleground politics with virginia republican governor bob mcdonald, u.s. jobs and the bloodshed in syria. plus, unemployment is up, the dow is down, and the presidential election is 157 days away. analysis from mark zande of moody s analytics, stechen moore of the wall street journal, and dan balz of the washington post. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. 19 months after electing republican scott walker as governor, wisconsin voters decide tuesday whether to recall him. walker s critics were galvanized by his first budget designed to fix a $3.6 billion shortfall. it included stripping collective bargaining rights for most public workers
sites. dangerous, dangerous pollutants on these sites. a lot of them near our kids schools. we don t wants to stop that. we are monitoring the air. you know, the epa is with a whole series of monitors, to make sure we know what kind of radiation is coming over from japan. will those people be pulled off that? we really don t know. and it goes on and on. so, you know, whether you re trying to buy a house and getting a mortgage through a federal agency, that s a problem. that s going to hurt our economy. sba loans, small business loans. forget it. if you want to get your social security, you are just signing up for a new to become a new recipient of social security or medicare, we think that s real problematic, this isn t good. mark zande who as many of you know, advised senator mccain in his presidential race said, this shutdown, if it s prolonged
committee, to probe that and that s his constitutional right to do so. but the focus is the budget. the most important thing they can be doing is cleaning up the budget mess left by the democrats. but these are important thing wi things, you like they re going after birth control and gays and trying to stop any kind of same-sex marriage and you like the fact that they re investigating the muslim community. what i think the republican leaders you re not answering me. they re all in the michele bachmann training school about not answering questions. i agree with that because when you have a fact like goldman sachs or mark zande, they re focused on jobs, they re focused on destroying jobs. they have no response to that.