i think there s generally a bad feeling around, there has been for quite sometime. the drop wasn t huge, it follows a huge drop of eight points in january so we re now in a sort of negative place with below minus 30 where the index has been twice in the last 37 years it s been carried out. i think it s just a general reaction to the fact that pay rise is not keeping pace with inflation. the general economic news in the papers is not good. people are just concerned generally. generally, so it s uncertainty about employment, low on cash problems so the government isn t managing to get its message across to consumers and boost confidence in spending. no, certainly they need to do this pretty quickly. all the evidence shows that confidence can be a good predictor of where the economy is going to go. if people are feeling confident, they feel they can go and spend money. that in turn the gdp increases.
Is to rout out al qaeda, to at that time save haven away from them. i agree. we did that. we did. we succeeded. so, anyway. speaking of defining goals down. little willie, what is up next? well, joe, we have an exclusive first look at the politico playbook next, including cash problems for the tea party. mike allen has that story. plus, michelle obama returns to the united states and gets a little criticism for her trip to spain. we ll break down the comments and the cost to the taxpayer. plus, tiger woods puts together the worst performance of his professional career. the meltdown of tiger woods continues. that s ahead in sports. but, first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. for the record, he is faking it for sympathy. he is faking it. no way he can be 18 over par. he hasn t done that since he was an amateur. let s talk about something i know about and that is weather. forecast nice and calm up and down the eastern send.
Hard to wrap your head around that. how about this number? $180 billion. that s how huge the budget shortfalls are from the 46 states facing major cash problems. now, governors from across the country are going to their annual meeting today, and of course budgets are job one. governor brian schweitzer, democrat from montana, joins me live from boston, attending that national governors association annual meeting. good morning, governor. great to be with you. you know, your fellow governors very well and you all talk. how bad is the financial situation out there state to state to state? well, last week time magazine pointed out that 47 states were in deficit, one was about even, that s arkansas, and just two of us, montana one, is in surplus. all across this country, there are declining revenues, and the expenses continue at the same rate. so states can t deficit spend like they do in washington, d.c. these ceos, governors, they ve
Here s what happened. yesterday the jet stream was doing this. right. and some of these ash particles got into this low-pressure center here. right. this low is going to travel all across europe, so i believe there will be ash problems even into italy where there aren t problems. right now it s this part of europe that s occupied. there are still flights here. this is where the article is basically right now. i just checked a flight. there is a flight land flg lyon, from constan tsonople, but no flights out of there. today the jet stream is doing something different, taking the ash over to eastern europe and over the ural mountains and eventually to russia, and it will affect russian airspace, but it may clear out european airspace. here s the airspace right here. right, so this is what you can see. southern europe, there are planes happening. in northern europe, nothing going on at all. nada. and the president will try to make it to poland to the funeral and there s no
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