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washington journal. here is the last word from dallas. caller: i want to thank c-span for being there for me. i listen to you every morning. i do not understand why you had someone on the right to represent to talk about the issues of shirley sherrod. wouldn t you have someone else beside him to give a more balanced view? host: we are focusing on the conference taking place, that is why we did that today. . also tomorrow morning, a round table discussion on race relations in america. that s all tomorrow morning. and matthew lee with an assessment of hillary clinton s trip to afghanistan, also her recent trip to south korea on the situation in north korea and wrapping up a conference taking place this weekend in vietnam. washington journal every day 7:00, 4:00 west coast. thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. enjoy the rest of your week. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] former b ....
republicans have been calling for this wasted stimulus money to be put to better use by supporting the long-term unemployed. i suggest the best way to create jobs is to stop destroying good-paying jobs that already exist. let me explain what i mean by that. this is a single most important issue in my home state of louisiana, the people of louisiana are facing job loss. in addition to a failed economic policy, a failed stimulus, president obama s ill-conceived and unwarranted and in the words of a federal judge, arbitrary and capricious ban on offshoring drilling is galvanizing residents along the gulf coast like i have never seen before. the long-term implications of this, mr. speaker, are real. real leaves are affected by this. because of this policy, thousands, tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the gulf coast are immediately at risk. it doesn t have to be this way. unfortunately, the elites in this administration and the president himself refuse to understan ....
directly, they didn t pay for it, mr. speaker. they were in charge and their president was in charge but they called it an emergency. now under mr. obama it s not an emergency. suddenly we re going to we re going to tie up people s minds and try and confuse them but the fact is that for six weeks we have said to workers in this country, we are not going to extend benefits. now, we have never in the history of this country, when unemployment was at 7.2% or above, failed to extend benefits. until the republicans got a serious case of fiscal well, i m not going to say exactly what i think. but fiscal disease has overtaken their mind. and they suddenly caught this thing, i don t know, it must be in the air around here, or somewhere down around the ohio river, between cincinnati and kentucky, they got leadership who said, you know, if we kin effect everybody with this fiscal fear if we can infect everybody with this fiscal year, we ll just sacrifice a few million, it s ....