the national broadbent plan is said to be non self and to keep -- nonself edgeexecuting. >> i think there is some room on the jobs front. we are stressing this as infrastructure. it does not get as much attention as a bridge or even a new building. i think there will be openings around jobs. americans are concerned about unemployment. we would argue that a lot of what we discussed here today is specifically a jobs conversation. >> under website, you did a recent analysis or report comparing google and at&t, which i found interesting. can you tell our audience what it is and where they can find it on the website? >> you can go on speedmatters.org. the reason we did this, back on the net neutrality front, we were concerned it appeared -- that we understand where the jobs are. at&t employs about 300,000 americans. google employs about 15,000, yet google has a higher market value. the ability of google to impact public opinion around the world is enormous. the profit they create is incredible, compared to the number of people who work there. as popular as google is, paid search is what is pro

at some point the markets can become saturated, but i do not think that is the case with broadbent. if you have a robust competitive marketplace, it obviates the need for regulation on so many different levels. if you have one player acting in an anti-competitive way, from the consumer's perspective, then presumably consumers would have more choices. there has been discussion of spectrum audits. that would be a great idea, as long as we understand manager expectations ahead of time. it is difficult to pinpoint a point on the map at a point in time and determine who exactly was using that spectrum, and for what purpose. we have to manage those expectations, and there is a lot of talk on capitol hill about this. it will raise as many questions as it answers. government uses about one-third of all available spectrum. spectrum is finite. we are talking about the airwaves, the radio waves, and different frequencies are better for different purposes. some frequencies'signals can travel long distances and penetrate buildings, like television stations. others are better for medical devices

keep the health insurance they desperately needed or opposition to putting americans to work laying broadbentrebuilding roads and new construction projects. there was an interesting headline on cnn today -- americans disapprove of stimulus but like every policy in it. there was a poll that showed that if you broken down into its component parts, 80% approved of the tax cuts, they approved of the infrastructure, the assistance to the unemployed. that is what the recovery act was. let's face it, some of you have been at the ribbon cuttings for some of these important projects in your communities. i understand some of you had some philosophical differences on the concept of government spending but, as i recall, opposition was declared before we had a chance to actually meet and exchange ideas. i saw that as a missed opportunity. i am happy to report this morning that we saw another side we saw the economy is routing -- running in the right direction, the latest gdp numbers say that our economy is growing by 6%. that is the most since 2003. put that in perspective, this time last year, we did not

poster boy posters situation for the healthcare takeover bell and he told the plight of one john broadbenthere was apparently a yawn oregon man suffering from a condition called and he mingy on in cranial issue, a neurological problem. and he asserted that this young man was unable to get health insurance and unable to get any treatment from a doctor and he railed against joe lieberman in particular at the time who have been lenient toward voting against the healthcare plan. basically accusing politicians who opposed socialized medicine of allowing patients like this john to die. well, i down over the last year that many of these anecdotes for health care takeover have not panned out and this was one of them. there were a lot of red flags in the peace. for one thing nicholas christophorous, of course, is a pulitzer prize-winning columnist and author celebrated by the likes of oprah winfrey, he had asserted that this was a case for government health care. expansion. when a guy already have health insurance. i went and called out and discover that not only did he have health coverage under t