party has been vocal enough has the president been vocal enough around things like revenue sharing and some sort of fiscal stimulus and the american jobs act. the president did go br congress and say pass this bill. we end up not covering it because it s not going to go anywhere. but that doesn t mean that there s not been effort. well, and i would, you know, that s part of a grass roots organization. i wouldn t look just for the elected democrats to be the ones pushing this. and i think this has to be the grass roots movement. i think it s a little built of a problem that you saw in 2008. it s a much more conservative, radical policies and not enough on the ground for the type of inv investments that are needed. i think the american jobs act was a stech in step in the right direction. but i think the idea is if we just leave it alone, no. we need to get out there. if you really want to advance the economy, and that s why i
about more on the show, because it is really important. michael tesler? well, there was a fabulous 100-plus page report released this week of an interview of the longstanding value study which is to interview people over the last 25 years. what they found is that partisan polarization in the mass level is growing substantially across several different values. so it looks like a elite polarization is filtering down to the elite level. we had norm on the show last week, and asymmetrical polarization is important to point out in the way it is working in congress, and i used to not be like into the people decrying gridlock and paralysis and dysfunction, but given the economic emergency that the country finds itself in, it is increasingly maddening. than you, karl smith.
there s an pornt caveat which is it doesn t necessarily make the policy more popular because everybody hates congress. it will drive down the rationalization. but it doesn t necessarily make it more popular. let me make sure that i m tracking this. you have groups of people. we talk about racial attitudes, there s a small battery of tests that are given in the national election survey and given quite often. here s an example of the kind of questions that we re sort of trying to get at people s raishl attitudes. this is a racial resentment question posed by ugov. it s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough. if blacks would only try harder, they could be just as well off as whiets, agree or disagree. so when you re looking at people, you kind of give them a
between now and the election, i don t know what you all would do to him in iowa. we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. yeah, well, bernanke faces angry questions from bright wingers before congress, democrats exhibited no pressure. it s prolonged unemployment and poverty for millions. not to mention the premature end. so until he answers the question of whether he s trying to get mitt rom nerks y elected, i think it s time bernanke started to feel some heat from the left. i want to find out whether my panel thinks they re trying to put ben bernanke in the white house right after this. wake up!
beginning with professor carl smith. we have more confirmation that the reason that 14 million people are unemployed is because ben bernanke believes that the world is that way, and he wants them unemployed and said as chairman before congress that he has ways of reducing unemployment but he will not use them until we go off of the fiscal cliff. and is this something that we talked about in the beginning of the show, is it because he wants them to because he thinks it is fine that way or he is pressured by other members of the federal reserve board who have voted against him in recent action and political pressure coming from the ron paul, and the republican party? well, there is pressure, but i mean, i do believe that he has not used the forces in the way he could and that is a choice he is making, and he could push the board in the opposite direction and he is not. i should note that you are not a some sort of namby pam bb liberal and so folks know that, because you are a p