upstairs asleep. many of you are thinking, please, cleaning fairy, please, come to me. but she was arrested. jon: yeah. strange stuff. hey, jobs and the economy remain top concerns for voters five months before the presidential election. today s down beat numbers adding a sense of gloom to an already bad situation. both president obama and governor romney are putting a spotlight on their very different plans to try to get the economy back on track. byron york is chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor. you re quite a good writer, byron. if you were writing the speech for the president on how to respond to these jobs numbers, what do you say? boy, it s tough. these new numbers, 8.2% unemployment, 14.8% of the people who are unemployed or unemployed and just have stopped looking for work but would like to have a job, they re terrible numbers for the president. he s going to continue doing what he s been doing which is to say look at where we
then there is what some are calling the real unemployment rate. counting every one who is out of work plus those forced to work part time who would prefer to be working full time. that number is working up to 14.8% and said to include about 23 million americans. joining me to discuss the political implications of this. kirsten powers and ben ferguson. thank you very much for being here. these numbers regardless of your political stripes, isn t this depressing? when you hear the numbers. 23 million americans out of work. and what the white house said, they put it out on their blog. you heard president obama say, the economy added private sector jobs for a total of 4.3 million payroll jobs. we don t like this number. we need to do better, but we are
warn that tension with the white house could hobble petraeus. percentage of uninsured adults has increased under president obama despite his signature healthcare law that mandates every american carry health insurance by 201414. a 2014. it was up half a point from 2010 when the affordable care act was signed into law. in 2008, 14.8% did not have health insurance. and finally, italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been caught insulting his own country. police were investigating claims he was being blackmailed about his sex life when he was heard to say, quote, they can put listening devices where they like. in a few months i m getting out to my own business from
some top intelligence generals warn that tension with the white house could hobble petraeus. percentage of uninsured adults has increased under president obama despite his signature healthcare law that mandates every american carry health insurance by 201414. a 2014. it was up half a point from 2010 when the affordable care act was signed into law. in 2008, 14.8% did not have health insurance. and finally, italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been caught insulting his own country. police were investigating claims he was being blackmailed about his sex life when he was heard to say, quote, they can put listening devices where they like. in a few months i m getting out to my own business from
the only two that are still cresting is artificial. it s because we ve opened the spillways and floodways. we re maintaining this via other measures. there s still a lot of pressure on this big system. in fact, the river is still in flood which means you re above flood stage, all the way up towards cape girardeau, missouri. so this is a long way where we all this water, all this pressure. we ve also had record volume of water moving through here. all that causes stress on this main system. certainly we re not out of the woods yet. take a look at vicksburg. we have crested here. but the river remains 13.8 feet above flood stage. 14.8 feet above flood stage at red river landing i cannot say that one, can t i natchez, 13.7 feet above flood stage. baton rouge cresting at 9.7 above and holding at 17 feet now