correctness run amok, while opponents say getting criminals back on their feet is the best way to stop recidivism. claudia cowan has a fair and balanced look. special report at 6:00 eastern. now back to the five. kimberly: all right, everybody. welcome back to the five. thank you for being with us today. the show is just getting started because we have a big cheater, cheater, oh, no, you didn t scandal that involves the entire state of georgia. and the governor is none too happy. sonny perdue said he was fed up and going to have investigation. they re not anonymous anymore. we call them out. 1788 principals and teach 178 principals and teachers and 82 confessions. as a former prosecutor i love a good confession.
billion dollars, only 53 miles of fence were ever belt and it s going to be the fence, you ll recall that protected our southern border and it didn t work. in fact, it was really an exercise in bureaucracy, run amok. and they had meetings and all sorts of money on it, only 53 miles at the end of the day. coming up we will talk to representative steve king, not peter king, he doesn t want the virtual border, an actual border along the border and tell you how you accomplish it and how cheap it is compared to a billion dollars for 53 miles. it appears that the homeland security department already has a bit of a plan if you listen to janet napolitano, they ll have aerial vehicles, thermal cameras and a variety of surveillance tools and whether or not it speaks to the difficult terrain down there and this is the problem that joseph lieberman is talking about, there s all sorts of
president they have some context. this is bigger than t.a.r.p. in terms of the amount of money involved. it is bigger than the stimulus bill. in fact, it s bigger than the stimulus bill which no republican went near with a ten-foot pole. why are republicans in favor of something that will add to the deficit as much as this will? because there are a lot of tax cuts in there. and that s the honest truth. republicans won t necessarily won t want to admit. they ll say, look, we were all about trying to stop the any tax increases from taking effect on january 1st, but you re right. i seem to remember in january, february of 2009 a lot of republicans saying, look, this whole idea of an emergency for the stimulus is ridiculous, sure we have economic problem, but this is socialism, this is government, spending run amok, and that this is a bloated stimulus bill which turned out to be, by the way, about $814 billion. and they rejected the president s argument about an economic emergency.
it s a gift to unions. this is just more government spending, government run amok, but, again, this is you notice that s become a very strong anthem on the republican side. they made a big case now. all the democrats do is pay for the is kiss up basically on the employee unions. does that work with people? i think it may, and in certain parts of the country. what the democrats have to do, what the president is trying to do is make a larger argument is look what s happening in the states. housing crisis, services being cut. what government can do is target stick husband as an example of that until a private sector gets up off the mat and feels confident enough to start investing, which we re seeing from the jobs numbers. the government not hiring many any great numbers. you and i are probably equally stunned by it. we thought the american auto industry was on its way down over the last ten, 20 years. it was a trend problem. now the president is out there saying, you know, th
unions, this is just more government spending, government run amok. but again. you noticed that s become a strong anthem on the republican side. they ve made a big side. all the democrats do is kiss up basically to the employee unions. does that work with people? i mean, i think it may in certain parts of the country. what the president is trying to do is make a larger argument. look what s happening in the states. housing crisis, what government can do is targeted stimulus. this is an example that have till the private sector feels confident enough to start investing which we re seeing from the job numbers today. the private sector not hiring in any great numbers. what s stunning, we thought the american auto industry was on its way down over the last 10, 20 years. now the president s out there saying, the american car may be the number one car in the world in the future. the problem is how is it doing in the u.s. market. it s doing well in the rest of the world. apparently