are we too sensitive? wow. i would have to disagree partially with what she said. i don t think we are too sensitive, but we just have a more open forum to bring it out. during the time clarence thomas is talking about, it wasn t so acceptable to come out and say what you felt because you feared there would be retaliation and whether you would be attacked. it wasn t such an environment where we were able to express our views. i don t think that people like al sharpton take the liberty to call the race card. there wouldn t be a race card if something racial wasn t going on. all of the instances thaw see al sharp and other leaders speaking on issues, cases that involve race or racial profiling or murders involving a racial issue is because it was race that was invoked in the crime to begin with. it s not always pulling the race card as easily as she did.
gary k., the health care law the new grinch for holiday sales? big yes. if walmart says so you better listen. but the bottom line is, there s a certain rule. it s uncertainty. there s so much out there about fines, fees and how much it s going to cost and when you re going to have to pay. whenever that s in the air, people are going to take a step back and there will be head winds. whatever numbers come out, it would be more if this wasn t going on. sasha, you can blame a lot on obama care, but can you blame this? you can blame everything on obama care. it s the scapegoat of the week. but as a standalone it isn t going to hurt. but as a continuation of the debt crisis and government shutdown and this lack of consumer confidence and pessimism and the ability of the government to function and help with the sustained economic recovery, in that way, yes, it does add to it. really, gary b., it is all about expectations here.
900,000 jobs lost and we think about the unemployment rate of 7.3%. it would be 6.7% if this wasn t going on. and that s not a small thing, that s three months of job growth. quite spectacular job growth compared to what we have seen. 6.7 unemployment is not good, but it s better than where we have been in a really long time. we are impacting growth and one of the things that we have seen in this recovery is growth that is not what we would want it to be, particularly in a period of recovery, generally the rule has been the deeper the trough, the sharper the spike up out of it. kind of the rocket out of it when you hit recovery and we have not seen that. we have not seen that, economists coming back and forth between a v-shaped recovery,
working on that all morning. president obama promise aed this wasn t going on and to the tune of 56,000 occurrences, per year. i think it s an outrage because i m big on civil liberties. i think we should be protected in terms of our privacy, but i must say, this is not so much directed at us, it s about keeping us safe. jonathan says that you can do it without it. but i m not sure and i tell you, if there was a terrorist incident, boy, would we all be up in arms. remember, a lot of this takes place under the patriot act. there s been dozens . you re playing both sides of that fence. either you re for this stuff or not. don t mistake me. if i was, you know, sorry, eric, i m for it. you know, ultimately, i don t want to get blown up. okay, so, as long as you say terror in the sentence, it doesn t matter what you say. wayne, help us out here. no, there is no helping out, eric. a violation of the fourth
there is no spying on americans. we don t have a domestic spying program. has been anything but. go to jonathan first. a lot of money and taxpayer money spent on snooping on the taxpayer. yeah. the idea of spying against national security. this is a false choice. despite monitoring going on, we miss benghazi, we missed the boston bombing. jihad around the world continues to grow. spying does not keep americans space. it s trying to win world war ii monitoring who will go to sushi restaurants or binging on german saucals. how we win a war is naming the enemy and taking military steps to defeat them. eric: jonathan, you got the german saucal comment in. i know you were working on that all morning. juan, president obama promised us that this wasn t going on. now, we find out it was going