owner with 500 employees in illinois said this jobs plan is a disaster. he wants to continue with the payroll tax deduction. gnat shred of evidence it created a single job. continue to prolong unemployment business. he wants more stimulus projects for more solyndra of the world. he wants to take away deduction for popular deductions that people have. mortgage interest, charitable deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes. this is a disaster his plan. that s why it s dead on arrival. it s a joke for people who create jobs. bret: but his question is what is your plan? if you not approving his plan, what is your plan if the economy is teetering on the precipice? my plan is what i told dan. it isn t just one silver bullet there is a lot of actions we need to take. one of which again would be very sime, legalize american
behind closed doors. i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother every other minute and my mother put us in a back room and said don t come out until you got it figured out, we stares at each other for a while but came out friends. thanks, senator, murray for confirming congress is just a bunch of feuding children. to me that s proof they don t get it. tonight s number, it will warm your heart. military widow who lost her navy s.e.a.l. in combat weeks ago lost his treasured keepsake but there s help flooding in from new friends. first, tonight s breaking news and other stories you need to know right now. breaking right now in new york, take a look. huge crowd gathering in new york city protesting against the big banks. washington gridlock and the state of the u.s. economy. these occupy wall street protests started several weeks ago. but as of today they re getting big union support, and going national. looking right now at what c
support on the democratic side of the aisle. harry reid is in no hurry to take up the bill. no one has co-sponsored the bill of the president. the one guy out there, the many like eric cantor and the speaker, are the ones saying, look, let s get this done. let s do this part of your bill you want to give incentives to businesses to hire veterans. let s look at the payroll tax deduction. so we re out there wanting to work with the president. a lot of the things he s put on the table but now the president has pulled back and said, well, now it s all or nothing. so you need to do everything that i have on this piece of paper or otherwise we re not going to agree on anything. it s childish. if you look at the polls, it does seem that you guys, the republicans, should be worried. when asked who is to blame for the economy, only 12% blame obama. they blame the bush
almost 32 million kids eat lunch at school each day. it s a captive audience. what are we feeding them and who should pay for healthier option snz. first, the middle classes is falling behind. income for the average american family has fallen now for the past three years and is at 1996 levels now. bankruptcy filings by those holding a college degree are up 20% in the past five years. college graduates, the fastest growing group of feeling filing for bankruptcy. and one in six americans lives in poverty. rick newman is from u.s. news & world report. rick, i want to talk about how we can fix this problem. what does it mean for our economy if the middle class is falling behind? can we have a meaningful recovery without having a recovery for the middle class? it s obviously bad news. incomes have been falling, real incomes after inflation, for the last are ten years. that was going on before the recession and the recession intensified that. and this is a national problem. i
19%. we went right back into a great depression. we never got out of it until the federal government started spending for world war ii. those who can t remember the past are doomed to repeat it. they are trying to get obama to do what they got roosevelt to do. we ought to learn there is a for the federal government. they have to step up today and get jobs created and then the corporation will stop sitting on the $2 trillion they are hoarding. moving specifically to the jobs act, we heard that now some democrats may prefer to pass this act in sections as opposed to as a whole. where do you stand on the issue? i think we should pass this, but i would double up. i don t think it s enough. most of the $447 billion goes to continuing the payroll tax deduction which has some merit, but i think that money should be