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a wake-up call from the ragin cajun. bill clinton s top adviser, james carville, along with two respected democratic pollsters out with a blistering 16-page indictment of the president s campaign strategy. carville says the president s efforts to convince voters that the economy is going in the right direction hit the wrong strategy and in his words will fail. he s right about one thing. the president is selling a message of hope, hard. we ve gone through the worst financial crisis and economic crisis since the great depression. we ve made significant progress. the good news is that we re starting to see progress. so we re making progress. we re moving in the right direction. progress? doesn t add up. we looked at some important economic indicators with bespoke investment research. look at the unemployment rate. this chart starts in the summer of 2007, when america was booming. at the very top, unemployment was 4.6%. a level it had hovered at for years. today it s ....
outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus ....
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how mu ....
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more at up? we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus since ....