contributor. welcome to our panel and welcome to your brady bunch boxes for the day, nice to have you with us. peter, we have seen private sector job growth. isn t that a good thing? but how much? we had 71,000 jobs. the private sector has to generate 300,000 jobs a month, ever month, until the end of 2013 for unemployment to get down to 6 percent if the government can manage not to shed any more jobs. at the pace we re making progress, president obama s great grandchild will be in the white house before we re out of this mess. jenna: elaine, how does the government step in and try to increase the pace of recovery? i think that s the whole problem with this administration, they think the government controls everything, and the government does not. the government s role is to create the environment in which the private sector can create jobs,ba that is the main problem with this economy. we re not creating enough jobs, as peter mentioned but why aren t we and that s the key question
created 12,000 jobs last month, that s lower than a snake s belly. over the last even worse, over the last seven months that the president mentioned, only 100,000 jobs are created. we need about 175, to 300,000 net new jobs created every month to keep up with the growth in population. so i think the recovery is very, very iffy and there s a lot of troubled waters ahead. jenna: finally, mike, where are we? it s too early to say we re in a downturn. it looks like the, quote, soft patch from the 2004- 2005 until prove otherwise. to me that s where we are, a frajit, fitful recovery but i think enough offsets to the negatives are out there that we can still say it s some kind of a recovery. an optoe mis! jenna: we ll end with that because that s what we have today. thank you very much. take care. jon: happening now jenna, we re going to get to
jump on the treatment plan and really try to get this corrected. jon: i know you ve been working hard with some exterior tenons, and very quickly, how s the prognosis? bottom line is, it s too early to tell. this animal has such a great spirit, she s improving literally every day, that we re extremely hopeful. we feel really good about it. we know that we re confident in that we re giving her every opportunity to survive. jon: all right. brendon, we thank you very much and we wish hope well as she tries to make that recovery. we have some brendon, thank you very much. thank you, jon. jenna: a gruesome discovery, four people found dead inside a home. a live update on the police investigation is moments away. oprah s new network will be smelling like a rosie, that story as well.
there. that is the good news. but for america s workers, families and small businesses, progress needs to come faster. our job is to make sure that happens. not only to lay the foundation for private sector job creation, but also to accelerate hiring, to fuel the small businesses that are the engines of economic growth, to speed our recovery so it reaches the people in places that need relief, not a year from now, not six months from now, but now, right now. that s why i welcomed the news earlier this week that after a lot of partisan bickering and delay the senate passed a bill that will not only keep at least 160,000 teachers in the classroom this fall who would otherwise be out of a job, but will help states avoid making other painful layoffs of essential personnel like police and firefighters. one of the areas where we ve been losing jobs even as we are
which was a problem in the bush administration and has gotten worse with clinton and the 8000 regional banks have toxic assets on their banks so small businesses, suppliers to people like ford and general motors can t get the credit they need to expand. in fact the big guys are loaning them money because the new york banks won t. so it s a trade decifit and the banks. but the president has to back off all this government regulation. i was at the national association of manufacturers yesterday, and i ve never heard such screamings, they certainly didn t complain about clinton the way they complained about this guy. it s not just health care and financial regulations, the regulators in washington are on steroids, they re into everybody s factory, everybody s workplace, to a level they ve gotten american business terrified and the only instinct they have is to move to china. jenna: quick thoughts from all of you on this, peter, start off with you, where are we in this recovery, really?