not the greatest politician in the world. he fumbled around the last time he ran. but i think this question of empathy is an important question. the thing mark was saying, the stimulus wasn t failed. with the economy substantially better than when the president took office. it shouldn t be celebrate wright is. it has to clearly get better. we were lose be hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. we are four gaining jobs. we have had many months in a row where the economy is producing jobs. this question of empathy is an important question. we have the republican party advocating for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country while trying to cut things like education, healthcare, stuff for every day people. if they want empathy from the american people they have to have a strategy that shows their economic plans will make things better for them. martha: i want to address this headlines in the l.a. times. in a switch gop s michele
businesses resupplying themselves, it wasn t in consumer spending. if you just limit that to consumer spending, the growth was .15%. if jay carney wants to get up there and behalf of the president and tell .15% it s a growing economy, let him carry that burden. but the people watching today, the people whose houses are under water, who can t borrow money and are stared of the future, they are not buying that as economic growth. martha: scared to death of the future is really a paralyzing feeling. you look at people looking as the their own retirements and how much those savings have dwindled in this economy and their house is a quarter of the houses in the whole country are under water in terms of their mortgage. it s a very, very tough situation. it s one we ll keep working on. it s depressing.
they re looking for another issue to talk about, to have another to have another conversation. that conversation has already been had. frankly when you look at with what s going on with enthusiasm, with some of the polls, it s clear they have lost that argument for now. you know, even robert gibbs yesterday in the briefing one of the questions i asked him, there were five different senate debates on monday night and what was interesting about them was the ease which republicans were health care needs to be repealed, the stimulus was a failure. and the democrats were defend, health care was a good compromise, the stimulus wasn t designed to create permanent jobs is what russ feingold said. i said hey, boy, are you disappointed in your fellow democrats? i said this to gibbs. he said, look, we re being judged on a political timeline.
dave is here joining us from the hit radio show. amazing, dave. guest: it is amazing. i m still waiting to feel stimulated. i have not been. have not seen anything . neil: you did not find anything stimulating? guest: looking around i am walking around in it every day and i live in middle america, in nashville, tennessee, i run a small business, i interact with business people all over america, and i have yet to see anyone hiewnly impacted by government freaking problem. neil: you do not buy the notion that things could be worse if the government and the stimulus wasn t what it was? guest: well, it is a fiddle i have played before. so the question is, do you believe that the government gets involved with deficit spending to drive the economy, does that
i am bill o reilly riley. thank you for watching the factor this evening. great moments from the last year. we start tonight with a memorable barack and a hard place segment. as you have said on the broadcast you want more federal spending. according to moody s an letic it brought in 2.10 for every dollar spent on the stimulus. moody said it work, bush s office said it worked. to say obama doesn t want to cut spending he had a $4 trillion bargain he is ready to enact. john boehner said no. it isn t fair that say he wants to cut spending. if the huge stimulus worked why did unemployment go up? the stimulus wasn t just about employment fwfz xeeping the state solvent.