another one, most people on unemployment, do not consider it s a free ride. i spend hours a day trying to find a job and get taxes taken from my unemployment tax. karen, chandler, arizona. my husband and i both have jobs, but worse off financially than ever. bill, adding mcgurk to the factor is the best since miller time. bill, don t subject your viewers to gottlieb. the factor is becoming jersey shore. aren t you better than that, bill? not really. billy connor, carmine, texas. o reilly, we have tickets for the show in austin, texas. are we still on? the show is sold out, billy. miller and i will be there november 23rd.
everything till the very last minute and or they ve been kicked out theoretically and technically, they ve been kicked out of their positions which is to say we have a very big to do list. the supercommittee triggers go into effect in january, the payroll tax cut is expiring, unemployment tax benefits expiring, and nobody, the general wisdom is nobody is going to do anything about it until the lame duck session of congress which is supposed to be a lame duck session where nothing actually happens. yeah, we re doomed. we re done then he that s it, we re done. the segment is over. former governor charlie crist, thank you, sir, for joining us. we look forward to more independent and moderate voices in this politicalç football season. we hope you join us again sometime very soon. my pleasure, alex. thank you. thanks to david javerbaum for telling us what god thinks it among other things. coming up, it was the week romney and obama began their head to head battle for the
you re right. the trend line for at least the first month of this quarter says that the economy is making a move in a direction that s positive for the president. the second point, however, and i think it s something that the governor touched on, that s true for both parties. these numbers are going to move all over the map with respect to unemployment. the cbo came out last week and said that their early projections are showing that unemployment going into next year is going to be a lot higher than it is today. when does that trend line if it happens, begin? does it happen in the summer? after the election? so i think we ve got to put a little baste bullet next to all of these numbers right now, particularly in the first quarter of the year as things begin to settle out based on what the congress, house and senate does and with the president s budget when it gets up to the hill next week. how we deal with, for example, the unemployment tax, whether that s going to be extended or if it
the first week of january asking for the speaker of the house to return. we had appointed our conferees to move quickly toward the payroll tax conference. we had a deal for a two-month extension. it was a complete breakdown in terms of reniging on the commitment. finally, the better senses prevailed in a two-month extension was accepted. the only extension that could have been achieved, republicans blocked it for a long period of time. democrats came back the first week in january to move the conference along to begin to talk about extended the unemployment tax and the relief for middle class americans and working americans and poor americans for one year.
saying he ll fight for tax increases as the deficit spending debate enters its next chapter. a powerful new special congressional committee charged with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade. the low-key signing ceremony at the white house came two hours after a 74-26 senate vote that sent the compromise plan from capitol hill to 1600 pennsylvania back after weeks of partisan sniping and jockeying in washington that we know leftmost of you disgusted. a new poll tonight said 77% of americans say congress acted like spoiled children during the debt debate. hard to argue against that? how unusual was the down to the wire debate? you don t see this every day or any day for that matter, this is an announcement from the social security system saying the benefit checks will go on tomorrow and beyond, as we break down the compromise and look ahead, this is more than a little sobering. the dow plummeted 266 points today, its eighth straight day of decline