jobs. thank you, bill halter. with almost 65,000 arkansans out of work, we need jobs too. thank you, thank you bill halter. you get the picture. who works at the center for american progress, the think tank in town she wrote this is outsoursd racism. the chairman of the democratic national committee said pull this ad, please. it s got to go. the tone is horrible. what if what if jobs had been outsourced to ireland and somebody an ad showing a bunch of drunks. my irish mother by the way, happy mother s day, my irish mother would be outraged and she should be. any stereotypes are out of bounds. it s a conservative group. they re called american jobs for kurt. they did have an operation in bangalore, but the ap looked that you cannot make a connection that american jobs went there. they did have an operation there. is that the tone you want in our politics right now? what is interesting, you see this happening in the primaries, is that good spots against a
know you don t like that term because of the politics of it. but what do they need? they have a policy gap, it s probably $300 billion that they re going to have to be having to fill in some way, the teacher piece that i think everyone agrees is really important is much smaller than that. you can get a kind of sense there are bills in the house that have been talking about maybe another $25 billion for state and local governments has being part of something that could be very helpful. the president s very aware we re in a very tough budget situation, he wants anything he does to be targeted, particularly high bank for the buck, we think this is one that might pass that test. let s talk about the broader economy and the global concerns, we re seeing what s happened in greece and across europe in recent days, and there are some including stay that the joint economic hearing when the report was being delivered to the congress, some republicans saying if you look at our debt to gdp rat
facebook postings, our tweets and the comments sent for our blog. this week s question, has the oil spill in the gulf of mexico changed your mind about offshore drilling? here s the sampling of what you think and a couple of other people added you might recognize. we need to stop drilling, we need to start using renewable energy that isn t hurting our ozone layer. we need to get more oil from our own country rather than importing all the oil that we get. we have drilled 1,000 deep water wells in the gulf successfully, 1,000. except for this one. so the fact that you do it 99 so the fact that you do it 999 right and one wrong doesn t mean that you throw up your hands and run in hysteria. there s got to be a better way than drilling for oil. this has got to stop, this destruction of our planet is
polling standpoint is that to turn around that recession mentality of the voter to a growth mentality, to be able to get the consumer confidence up, you basically have to have six solid months of nothing but good economic news before they reach that point. that window has closed. one of the things that was right in terms of what the obama administration tried to do coming out of the state of the union message was saying that we re only going to talk about jobs and the economy, and then they talked about health care for 2 1/2 months, now they have the storm, they have the stock market, they have all these other things that are occurring, that is all going to muddy this up that much more, including what happens with the supreme court today. even if it goes well, it could get in the way of this economic message. it gets in the way of the economic message because it s not that focused on nothing but the economy. when you look at the economic numbers there was some more bad news in the