the average middle-class comerica and is basically for retreating from the housing market, perhaps waitinglds to grow over income growth to seller. lou: the affordability index means something. >> it does mean something. does not forget, we have good news on consumer spending, but income is still performing poorly. for the month of december spding topped expectations. income fell short of expectations. lou: and nobody has an answer for. president obama wants to talk about income inequality, but he doesn't have a prescription. the democrats don't. added to the republicans. the republicans are trying to run from the issue. the reality is this is a big, big problem in our society and our economy. lou: -- >> we are seeing the worst income rose by far of any recovery since the 1940's. until we get a recovery in terms of income growth we're not going to see much happen by consumer spending or by spending and housing. lou: to you think the republicans will ever learn to talk about the middle-class? all of the fact that the president today again is talking about the middle-class. he said it more e

the best thing out of the game were the comericas, some, just some hit the spot.udweiser puppy love commercial arguably the most popular, got 34 million views on youtube before it aired last night. this one came in from microsoft, all about how technology is changing the way we live our lives. that fits right into the theme of "varney & company," tech is king. we like that one. and right now, we're waiting to see the ratings for the big game, especially the number of viewers in the second half. we'd like to know when did you turn off the game? probably a lot of you did it. and other is a telling number. 24.9 million. that's how many tweets were sent during the game. way up from last year. and let's get to your money. that's important this monday morning. the dow logged its worst month in five years, that was january. we start february trading today. futures looking dead flat, actually. dead flat. no bounceback. it's the first trading day of february. first, let's run this one for you. one of my favorite parts of the super bowl last night. this was good. it came be

so, for her to put this off as a-- and i think, liz, we were talking about in at the comerica, put thisobs and ignore the fact that that's going to decrease employment in this country is very irresponsible. >> yeah, come on, liz. >> the fact remains, the employer mandate delayed for a year see we will not know about the true impact of obamacare on jobs, when the employer mandate kicks in. and you see companies reacting and busting down full-time workers to part-time status. moving workers to the exchanges. so, we're now 700,000 fewer full-time jobs since pre recession peak according to the federal reserve. so for the secretary of hhs to make the statements unequivocally is kind of interesting. stuart: well, it just flies in the face of reality, doesn't it? >> how about the owner of multiple applebee's franchises we had on this program last week who said that he's had to talk about the harsh realties of obamacare to his employees who may lose their jobs as a result of this. so we have firsthand evidence that people will loose their jobs. >> if health reform was so great, why are there 28