Graduate 120,000 in 350,000 in berths. the difference between that, we borrow, and the 20 ways to qualify for 100, 200,000 medicare that you didn t pay in, that scares me. brenda: susan. you know, a lot of these problems can really be positioned as win-win. so, for instance, weatherizing, getting right. no, they are. if you re getting to weatherize your house and improve the energy efficiency to your home, you spend less money and helps the country because we re using less energy. why is that a government program? can t necessarily afford it on their own. a lot of people have really old homes and can t afford to update now, we re coming out of recession. brenda: gary b, go ahead. i was shocked it always comes back to, susan, and toby asked the question, why is that the government s role? but beyond that, you know, you made the point, oh, this is going to help with the efficiency. susan, come on, you ve been involved with government and know how it works, none of the
They ve created 14 homes and have a few homes weatherized. where is the money? when will it stop being spent on programs like that? stuart varney, we say this because it s just the beginning, you understand. yes, it is. next week when the president announces his job creation program, it s going to contain a big element of green jobs. the washington post reports that it will taken proposals for environmentally friendly construction and green energy tax credits. last night in las vegas at harry reid s clean energy summit, vice president joe biden joining the call for more spending on green jobs. but this example of seattle and other cities, it doesn t work for heaven s sakes. it just doesn t work. government projects like this are politicized and heavily bureaucratic. in seattle, they have to pay these weatherizing of homes contractors. they had to pay the laborers $21 per hour plus benefits plus a pension. that s the that s a living
Other countries. we have to get the right incentives in place to nourish those industries. we have to have energy conservation. there is gold in energy conservation. there are jobs to be created. the weatherization program. weatherizing older houses is very labor intensive. we can create jobs, do a good thing and produce energy, and if we started producing energy here, dylan, what would that do for our balance of trade payments? reduce it by about half. by about half. the core issue, though, doesn t seem to be a shortage of ideas or rational. you laid out very rational thoughts and many others do the same thing. what governor grandholm is saying there is not a sense of urgency in our congress to deal with not only energy or jobs. how do we, what can i, should we set up a city on the national mall and stay there until they do this? what can be do done to create some urgency on this? i think people have got to send a message. to be honest, i think everyone in washington except a
Jetblue made a hard landing blue four tires tires catching fire passengers he can evacuated by emergency slides. five taken to a hospital. none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. the airbus was arriving from long beach with 87 passengers. jetblue believes the plane had brake trouble. now back to on the record. greta: vice president biden is sticking to his guns and saying again the stimulus bill is working. today in new hampshire the vice president announced 200,000 homes have been weatherized thanks to the stimulus. the white house says the projects gave jobs to construct workers and made homes more energy efficient. is steve more convinced? he s a senior economic writer for wall street journal editorial page. weatherizing is a good idea it makes homes energy efficient. that s another issue.