in the first week of october before the election in the first week of november. so you only have one more of these big government unemployment reports and it s not likely to go to 10% in that october report. but further on down the road, november and december, it could well go back to 10%. unless a million people drop out of the work force and literally statistically bring the unemployment rate down. unless that happens, the unemployment rate is going to go up because we re not creating enough new jobs to get it take account of population growth. stu, when the president walked up on monday and talked about we added 67,000 jobs, foxnews.com writes a column about it today saying wait, are you not paying attention to the fact that we lost 114,000 jobs? that s a net loss of $54,000. it s as if he doesn t think we can add. look, the president is fighting reality. there s an element of desperation here because in the last two weeks, we ve seen
going to take place between u.s. and iraqi commanders. the gunman was shot dead but the two americans are the first u.s. troops to be killed in iraq since the obama administration declared combat operations officially over last week. dramatic video now of alleged terrorists practicing to shoot down planes. and blow up a synagogue. the tape was played at the federal trial of four suspects accused of scheming to shoot down planes at the air national guard base in new york and blow up synagogues in the bronx. you can see one of the men testing a shoulder missile launcher. the video taken during a meeting in 2009 at a warehouse in connecticut. the weapon, a fake supply by the f.b.i. at the end of the tape, three of the suspects bow their heads in prayer. breaking news from l.a. overnight, rioting in the streets. protesters are starting fires throwing bottles and eggs at lapd officers. several officers were hurt by the flying debris and at least 22 rioters have been arrested.
that s not going to end up in the kind of jobs we want to get. is it going to boost morale for some people? sure, is it going to get jobs for some people in the short run? sure. is it going to get us out of this economic recession? absolutely not. it s interesting. we were talking about what the president said a day before yesterday in milwaukee yesterday on this program, he said it s going to immediately create jobs. one of his senior advisors was on the phone saying this is not going to be creating any jobs immediately. probably next year. ultimately, the jobs they re worried about are democrats jobs come the midterm. that s exactly right. they are talking about road building and that sort of thing, the reason they re doing that is a lot of those jobs are union jobs and they pay prevailing wages under the davis bacon law. they re trying to reward their base. they re hoping to turn out a big union vote. that s really their only hope. sure, all right. we ll continue the conver
mayor of chicago but he also has a lot of responsibilities here and, you know, he has tough decision to make and he ll in due course make that decision. so if you had to hedge your bets, he d have to make the decision the next couple of weeks and he would run for mayor, i am not making any bets. i really don t know. i think he s really wrestling with that. he has a very strong allegiance to the president and he understands he has great responsibilities to this country. so he s going to work that through. there s a story in one of the big papers that if he does step aside, somebody like valerie jarrett will step up to be chief of staff, maybe tom daschle, somebody like that. i think people are way, way ahead of them. people are way ahead of themselves. he hasn t even suggested he s leaving yet so i would not be making appointments for jobs that aren t vacant. i just want to go back to ohio just for a minute and to
$780 billion. why not use that? that s exactly right. we have almost a trillion dollars that we supposedly put out there. it did nothing. unemployment continued to rise and the problem is the president really seems to believe that washington creates jobs. washington does not create jobs. small businesses create jobs. big businesses create jobs. and you stimulate that by making sure that the taxes are low and people can spend more of their own money and that s exactly the opposite of what this president is planning to do. chris, you re nodding. you got a job in washington. created one job for you. but when you look at the pickle we re in right now, it doesn t seem like washington knows what they re doing. no, i mean, i think linda is absolutely right. the job in washington is not to create jobs, it certainly is not. if we look at what was supposedly spent on this infrastructure package last time, there are a lot of really great signs on amtrak but the trains still don t run on tim