harlem. greg, you re trying to get in there. is it stereotype to go point out the suicide rates of white males, which is basically twice that of blackmails? it s a fact? is that a stereotype? no. what s racist is basically assuming a community cannot handle the same standards as the rest of us and that the biggest threat, in my minds, to blacks are not gangs, but white liberals who duke everybody into excusing deadly behavior. those are statics. the same stat it tick did sit ticks about suicide among white male it s just a number. it s a number can t be racist. a fact cannot be racist. i actually thought geraldo did a disservice to the african-american community because some i talked to agreed with what bill o reilly had to say. they thought he made a great point. dana, i want to ask you about the tone and the messaging of this. your area of expertise.
to use that for feed. for cattle. for pigs. for hogs. if for pork, too. et cetera. we are talking about inflation. there is so much concern we have a weak consumer and lie high unemployment. is this the new reality the volatile price swings? guest: it is the new reality. and the folks on main street when you are filling up the car with gasoline and you are watching it tick, tick, tick, you are swiping your debit card it is a reality you cannot escape, really, and unfortunately with personal disposal income dropping and unemployment staying where it is, we will not see relief for a long time until we get a new administration. did you crimp on the barbecue because of the food prices? guest: a lot of people will load up on other items and maybe
13.5 million people, brooke, are still out of work. that s the reality we re in right now, and we have to see the big job gains of, you know, 150,000, to 200,000 every month to keep up with population growth. the thing about the unemployment rate. seen it tick down to 8.8%, but i m telling you, it s going to go back up and that s not bad because what it really means is people are actually getting back into the labor force, looking for work, and then they are going to be counted in that unemployment number. this happens when people hear that jobs are being added every month so they get less discouraged and more hopeful. right now, you know, a lot of time is signature on the sidelines, don t think there s jobs out there so hopefully as the months go along, when we see month after month hopefully that we re adding lots of jobs, they will get back out there and try and find a new job, brooke. alison kosik, thank you so. next here in arizona today the dedication of freedom s angel, a st
my guess is we ll probably have short-term extensions while we negotiate these things. with spending cuts. we don t want to accept the extremely high, elevated levels and we ll have to start negotiating on these things not just with the senate but also with the president as well. martha: all right, that is wisconsin republican paul ryan one of the most out spoken advocates of spending cuts and not all republicans were in favor of that bill that passed in the wee hours of the morning, despite the soaring national debt. there it is, look at it once in a while, watch it tick by and g.o.p. lawmakers voted against the house budget proposal that basically slashed a lot of pet projects in the $62 billion range, and one of those people who voted against it, was california republican john campbell, a member of the house budget committee, and headed up by paul ryan, was he unhappy with you on that vote, sir? well, it wasn t necessarily the most popular vote. amongst some republicans, and
shape, those kinds of things, to not use as much fuel. but this is an issue we are going to be seeing, i think, throughout 2011, maybe even into 2012, and something is clearly going to have to be done. a year ago, you know no, three years ago, in 2008, gas prices peaked at $4.11 a gallon. you see that, americans are going to be up in arms about that, and something will be done then. absolutely, you know, because that s indelibly imprinted in my mind. are you kidding me? seeing it tick, tick, it s terrible. higher and higher. lynette khalfanie cox, we ll have you back in a bit. the evolving role of first lady michelle obama. we ll look at some new initiatives she s working on, ahead. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power,