650 billion dollar budget shortfall. mike: that s one of those things, if you build it they will come and buy bikes. alisyn: you know, new york tried this and some people think it s great and some people are angry. mike: and philly is doing the same thing, putting more bike lanes in. cabbies hate it. it drives them nuts. dave: yeah, kind of like bikers don t pay a lot of attention to cars. i like in new york when you re a bike and you acted like a car, seemed like the safest way i m going to drive like i m in a car. alisyn: in your lane. rick: now in the bike lanes i m afraid of cars cutting into the bike lanes. alisyn: i m afraid to cross the street because a bike can take you out. rick: that s true. mike: i afraid of everything. rick: hey, guys, across the central part of the country where the drought is going on. not a whole lot of rain to be had here, heavy rain across texas and towards the central gulf area where the majority of the rain is going to stay and
front runner says he ll get a boost when voters learn more about herman cain. i think we ve seen sudden surges of candidates and then they fall off again. i think when people get to know what herman stands for, i think that helps he me, because, they re fot going to say, well, he s not really for any cuts and he s for adding this national sales tax. president obama went golfing today and he s keeping his eye on the main campaign issue for the election year, jobs and the economy. he and supporters continue hammering republicans in congress for failing to pass a $450 billion dollar jobs bill. i think what s becoming clear over time, as the president puts forward proposals accepted in the past by democrats and republicans alike, is that we have a very, he very obstructionist wing of the party successful at keeping the president from accelerating had jobs recovery as quickly as he would like. in the meantime, the date and locations of the
andrea tran ter rose is back. he s going do raise the gas tax, infrastructure spending code word for stimulus. we heard this last year. labor day of 2010, the president came out, proposed a jobs plan. it was a 50 billion dollar plan. unemployment 9.6% at the time now 9.1%. are you getting what you paid for then? sean: not really as shovel-ready as we thought. the president cannot resist. he s got to spend more, raise more taxes. i think people paying a high price at the pump, they are not going to like seeing gas prices stay high. he s got to reward his key constituencies the unions. he s going to funnel more to them. he talks about railing against these corporate welfare programs. this plan is likely going to be another corporate welfare
andrea tran ter rose is back. he s going do raise the gas tax, infrastructure spending code word for stimulus. we heard this last year. labor day of 2010, the president came out, proposed a jobs plan. it was a 50 billion dollar plan. unemployment 9.6% at the time now 9.1%. are you getting what you paid for then? sean: not really as shovel-ready as we thought. the president cannot resist. he s got to spend more, raise more taxes. i think people paying a high price at the pump, they are not going to like seeing gas prices stay high. he s got to reward his key constituencies the unions. he s going to funnel more to them. he talks about railing against these corporate welfare programs. this plan is likely going to be another corporate welfare
we are all part of this country. greta: this big pie. right. i would argue to moody s and standard & poor s and the others that states with lower bond ratings are more threatened than ours. greta: even if they are more threatened, the fact is, if you go from aaa down that is going to raise your interest costs and you ve got a five billion dollar bond 50 billion dollar bond over the next five years scheduled so it is going to cost you 50 million if you lose a bond rating one step. which is horrible. 10 days before this vote to avoid the default we went out into the bond market. because of our aa been rating because we brought democrats and republicans together to make the tough decisions we got a good rate, 3.07%. greta: you are shrewd and smart. we have to go back out in february. look, there s two ways that we can kill this fragile jobs