promote jobs. greta: like what? well, whether it s cutting some taxes and trying to spend more. government has to spend more to stimulate the programs. greta: was it that we didn t spend in the right direction? i travel the country and see all these businesses going out of business. it s terrible. people unemployed. it s not working for them. you know, back in the 1930s, we read the history books, franklin delano roosevelt created these public sector jobs. i would have preferred that a lot of the money would have gone into the creation of public sector jobs, infrastructure jobs, things like that. we didn t do it. greta: it s a very different economy in the 30s than now. we got to go. will you come back and talk to me about this? i d love to. thank you. greta: thank you, sir. coming up, she s amazing and she s back. representative gabrielle giffords making home run her arizona constituents have a arizona constituents have a voice inhost: could switching to really save you
here s representative maxine waters slamming the tea party earlier today on the house floor. mr. speaker, i rise to congratulate the tea party for starting a deal made in their image and their image alone. the cuts will be deep. they will be lasting. and they will weaken an already depressed economy. what s clear is that the tea party is so illogickically driven to kill government, they re willing to kill the private sector, jobs, and growth in the process. greta: these attacks are nothing new to the tea party. on saturday, republican senator marco rubio fired back at those calling the tea party extremists^. now president obama may want to cover his ears for this one. today, and for much of this time, i ve heard all these attacks and name-calling. if we had a billion dollars for every time that i hear the word tea party extremists, we could solve this debt problem. so all this name-calling, so i said, let me read quotes about
picked for that, because i can t vote for tax increases under any circumstances. i don t think they re justified. what s justified to me is to get people working. we get more people working, at higher salaries, and better benefits, and by, gosh, after a while, we ll work ourselves out of the revenue people, because more people will be paying taxes, more people participating in the system. we won t get that as long as president obama is president, because he doesn t understand the private sector, and there s no one down at the white house that does understand the private sector. not one person down there, to my knowledge, has ever created a private sector job. if they have, it s been darn few at that. greta: this discussion is so heated about the balanced budget amendment, about the debt ceiling, i think in part because the economy has been so sluggish. still have 9.2% unemployment. right. greta: while all our attention is on the debt ceiling, what s happening with the what s be
promote jobs. greta: like what? well, whether it s cutting some taxes and trying to spend more. government has to spend more to stimulate the programs. greta: was it that we didn t spend in the right direction? i travel the country and see all these businesses going out of business. it s terrible. people unemployed. it s not working for them. you know, back in the 1930s, we read the history books, franklin delano roosevelt created these public sector jobs. i would have preferred that a lot of the money would have gone into the creation of public sector jobs, infrastructure jobs, things like that. we didn t do it. greta: it s a very different economy in the 30s than now. we got to go. will you come back and talk to me about this? i d love to. thank you. greta: thank you, sir. coming up, she s amazing and she s back. representative gabrielle giffords making home run her arizona constituents have a voice in
here s representative maxine waters slamming the tea party earlier today on the house floor. mr. speaker, i rise to congratulate the tea party for starting a deal made in their image and their image alone. the cuts will be deep. they will be lasting. and they will weaken an already depressed economy. what s clear is that the tea party is so illogickically driven to kill government, they re willing to kill the private sector, jobs, and growth in the process. greta: these attacks are nothing new to the tea party. on saturday, republican senator marco rubio fired back at those calling the tea party extremists^. now president obama may want to cover his ears for this one. today, and for much of this time, i ve heard all these attacks and name-calling. if we had a billion dollars for every time that i hear the word tea party extremists, we could solve this debt problem. so all this name-calling, so i