unemployment at 8%. we could bring that down to 5% that you should expect that to occur at some point. we re four years into running well below the full utilization of the economy. so if somebody can get the business confidence up, get the investments made, we should expect to see higher growth as we move back to the long-term trend line. brian: we keep hearing big money is on the side lines and this disenchantment with the president and his economic team. it almost sounds like a catch phrase. but you know these people of the what could happen? could the economy hit turbo speed if there is a change in the white house? oh, yeah. i think if businesses had confidence, they can put money to work quickly. i think you could see a rebound in the stock market, people would be more willing to consume, more willing to invest and take the business risks that create jobs. i would expect that just from his election. brian: ed, people saying, that s his friend. of course he s going to say th
close to the president saying, don t do it. and she doesn t tell the president or he said, we don t care. they set the back alternative energy decades. this is everything for president obama. this is stimulus, clean energy, it was supposed to be jobs, so for this to fall as flat as it did it was particularly difficult. that s why the republicans are trying to make this famous. greta: but some business deals go belly up. this wasn t one of those. this is a decision where it was so obvious from the get go and they had a warning and they did it anyway. that s why the republicans are so keen to publicize solyndra. greta: everybody in favor of getting off foreign oil should be upset. the president has said, don t hindsight 20/20. he thinks had went through the appropriate process. s this is a spectacularly bad example. greta: but this was a don t
energy. is he a rich guy? i understand why steve wesley has the money, but how does a guy go from a government job to afford a $35,000-a-plate fund-raiser? he went to consulting. it is an example of the revolving door greta: was it in solar energy? no. but i has a lot of contacts in this world. for him, this is an example of the revolving door and the very tight web, the interconnectedness of all of these energy official, people inside the government, outside the government, at omb, people saying, wait a second, let s put the brakes on this and people putting intense pressure on it. and there is a web of folks that are highly interconnected. greta: i want to find alternative energy. i want to get us off foreign oil. i would love to make solar energy really be efficient. but when you have such stupid decisions and we spend $500 million in a company where we can get the product cheaper somewhere else and have you steve wesley warning somebody so
is he a rich guy? i understand why steve wesley has the money, but how does a guy go from a government job to afford a $35,000-a-plate fund-raiser? he went to consulting. it is an example of the revolving door greta: was it in solar energy? no. but i has a lot of contacts in this world. for him, this is an example of the revolving door and the very tight web, the interconnectedness of all of these energy official, people inside the government, outside the government, at omb, people saying, wait a second, let s put the brakes on this and people putting intense pressure on it. and there is a web of folks that are highly interconnected. greta: i want to find alternative energy. i want to get us off foreign oil. i would love to make solar energy really be efficient. but when you have such stupid decisions and we spend $500 million in a company where we can get the product cheaper somewhere else and have you steve wesley warning somebody so
close to the president saying, don t do it. and she doesn t tell the president or he said, we don t care. they set the back alternative energy decades. this is everything for president obama. this is stimulus, clean energy, it was supposed to be jobs, so for this to fall as flat as it did it was particularly difficult. that s why the republicans are trying to make this famous. greta: but some business deals go belly up. this wasn t one of those. this is a decision where it was so obvious from the get go and they had a warning and they did it anyway. that s why the republicans are so keen to publicize solyndra. greta: everybody in favor of getting off foreign oil should be upset. the president has said, don t hindsight 20/20. he thinks had went through the appropriate process. s this is a spectacularly bad example. greta: but this was a don t