necessary to have a wpa-type program and hire people. we cannot possibly go on with 15 to 20 million americans sitting on their hands and not doing anything and they are not being job for them. you have a problem with any of that, john? well, first of all, we need some humility after the first stimulus package didn t deliver as advertised. we were told it would keep unemployment under 8% and clearly did not do that. so moving forward talk to small business who employees 80% of the american people. and they surveyed the members and said what are the major concerns, and first of all, declining sales, duh, but the second is uncertainty for economic policy. they can t plan for the future and don t know the climate change bill, and the full implication of the taxes dumped on them and the taxes expiring on december 31st.
trial in gitmo has been put on hold for at least 30 days due to the illness of an attorney. jenna: we asked voters whose policies are to blame for the current economic problems. more people say president bush at 47%. but when asked if president obama should continue to blame president bush and focus on that 76% of those polled said, no, it s time for the current administration to take responsibility for the economy. two different messages. wendell goler is live at the white house working this story. wendell what does the white house say about it? is the president ready to take responsibility for this economy? reporter: jenna officials here say the buck stops in the oval office but the president talks about the economic disaster he inherited for a woupl of reasons, one is to get people to look on the bright side of a dim economy, which is not producing nearly as many jobs as the president wanted, or expected. the other is to explain why the stimulus package, the unpopular and expensiv