you know, we would all kill for that right now. so even so the economy is t not it s 7.5% right now. the economy is still not going to be booming. and my guess is the white house will also say what krystal said, the economy is getting better but not great by any means. if you look at the underlying factors, the economy is not great. both parties have to be careful. nerve root for the parties to be bad, but if you re republicans, you don t want to think it s boone town, where the employment is 5.8%. i do get the sense that sometimes the republicans have rooted for it to be pad. perry, have republicans lied? you know, perry perry, here s another question. yeah, and another question is, looking at not only the republican behavior but the mode of the republicans. i want talking to kevin madden who worked for romney and he was saying, yes, things are a little better. if you sell the up, you have to sell the down, you have to be
do i want to be a doctor, which i unquestionably need a degree for? or do i want to be a computer scientist or rather a web developer where i might not need a four-year degree that will charge me $40,000 a year. all good points. thanks matt. we appreciate it. my pleasure. speaking of crises, i m not sure anybody at this table is aware, bus krystal and i are the only sports fans. but this week the new york metropolitan for the first time in history. what? why are we doing this. swept the new york yankees, 4-0. zero games. last night, the empire state building was lit up in my mets colors in honor of the sweet. and new york mets tweeted out, king of queens, more like kings of york. oh, stop it! it really does look beautiful. show me the record. want to join the conversation? want to tell toure how the mets
poor the hardest, because the stimulus from the fed is driving the economy, the benefits are accruing to the richest parts of the population. so we re seeing this very uneven recovery. in terms of political implications, are we really going to see political benefits accruing to either side as long as most americans have stagnant wages and are not really fully participating in the fledgling recovery we re seeing? you re right, krystal. we can show a lot of data showing the economy is not doing well for a lot of people. in 2013, you can have a lot of statistics showing the economy is not doing well for a lot of people. there s a lot of polls showing, you would think obama s ratings would have gone down in the scandals, the past week, two weeks, but the ratings have stayed pretty high in terms of approval. if you look at the polls, it s because people see the economy doing well. his numbers on the economy are going up, and near 50% approval