the jobs market. tim geithner says they re key to fixing the economic problems and he blames the previous administration for the crisis. it took a long time to create the economic mess that this president inherited, and we know it s going to take more time than any of us would like to put the damage behind us. and we are going to have to keep at it, keep working harder to heal the damage caused by this crisis until we get americans back to work. jon: john candy is senior economic adviser to wayne seat economics. why is it taking so long to get unemployment down? i think the major reasons, and it s ironic that geithner did not bring it up, we have a weak dollar. it has to be remembered that treasury is the dollar s mouth piece and he has a point that over this decade the bush administration talked down the dollar, but the sad fact of it is the geithner treasury is doing the same thing and when you devalue money, what you re doing is making investors