have opposition? let him know what he stands for and then let them vote again him? what do you think? i think he s being realistic. look at the economy proposals on the table now that are sitting, languishing in congress while they do nothing, they are respectfully to get the economy back moving again through the extension of the payroll tax relief, the extension of jobless benefits for those who are unemployed. he s talked about a massive we have a the 9.1% unemployment rate, effectively almost 20% underemployment. you re talking a pretty small boar, for a does that. he s challenged the private sector to hiring returning veterans coming back from afghanistan and iraq. proposed putting unemployed construction workers out of work since the housing bust back to work. the country is in desperate need of infrastructure improvements. you ve got 1 million unemployed construction workers. we could put those people back to work tomorrow if congress would act on these things.
plus, as he put it, for the middle class, jessica. he didn t share the stage, he gave the stage remember when he left the presidency and he was giving a press conference at the very end at the airplane hangar for what seemed to be an hour. and in this particular case, he seemed quite at home, should i say? he even said i enjoy my days of governing. ing us how much he has been studally the economy and how important the payroll tax relief is and then the funniest thing was that he called it a stimulus package. then he said, oops, i m not supposed to use that word. he captured the moment. many people said will obama pull a clinton? will he pivot to the center and triangulate? that will be the debate for the next six months or two years. but the former president did make a very important point, not
so far ahead of us. we were going to go through all the spending that we ve had since the president took office, whether paid for or not. for example, the payroll tax relief, do you think that s paid for or not? do you think it is? its paid for, that s good. hmm. neil: jobless benefits extension. no. neil: financial stability act. that was a big one, 27 billion-dollar, that s paid for. some people question the assumption here. stimulus itself, the biggest of them all, not paid for. not paid for. neil: the thing we did for the states, the teachers, the job bill, paid for they say but on the back of food stamps a few years from now. add it up. what do you get? it s a shell game. they re taking money out there in the future and acting like