communities i live in los angeles county, we saw upwards of unemployment of 9%, that was a year ago. there's a lot of cities with higher rates i found in ohio and michigan. that's what we will do to play our resources. >> we'll see the entire interview. that's tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. back to the phones and discussion regarding how congress should handle healthcare. we go to cleveland on the phone for democrats. go ahead. good moverpbing morning. i would like to comment on the second gentleman that called first all regarding the statement that he made about paying for healthcare for people that don't take care of their bodies. as a professional, i would like to say that people who take care of their bodies also get ill. i have provided healthcare for 30 years. i am the at point that i have wanted to leave it and get out of it. the things i have seen have b horrible. they really have in the 30 year time that i have been a participant. the profitting in the system that has so much of the cost overpadded to where if we can deal with these people who help to create

in communities in los angeles county, we saw an employment upwards of 90%, and that was 1.5 years ago. we are room to deploy our resources and try to help those people out on the ground. >> the president has talked about trying to do a better job preparing high school students for college. college graduates are having a tough time finding work, something like 20% of this year's college graduates have found jobs so far. should we be doing more to prepare people for the trades, more plumbers, carpenters -- do we need to change our thinking about this? we are putting out a lot of college graduates who are working and restaurants and bars. >> part of what we need to do is make sure we retool for good jobs that will pay well. i would think that we still need more people in math, science, an engineering people \ / \ / \ /\/ so many other countries are more dense than we are. i would hope we could continue on that path. many who may not be able to get into college could benefit from apprenticeship program. we have the electrical workers union that has partnerships in the community and with t

i write a column in the los angeles county republican women newsletter, it is called a my bookshelf and i wrote about "bias" and i would like to write about this one next. i do have a question, all those years ago when you wear with cbs, were you a liberal or a conservative then? and if you weren't a conservative then, when did you see the light? [laughter] [applause] >> good question. nice outfit and good question. [laughter] if you did not see she is wearing the red, white and blue and all that. i grew up in a lower middle-class blue-collar family. my parents thought that franklin roosevelt could walk on water even though he literally had trouble walking on land. i mean, it was a solid blue-collar democratic family and that is how i grew up. in college i was one of those people who said of barry goldwater gets elected and i am moving to australia, but all people in college are stupid by and large. [applause] and even in "bias" which came out in 2001, the book to which you referred, i describe myself as an old-fashioned liberal along the lines of john kennedy and then i specifically sa

we've been in this situation now since december of 2007 and in communities where i lived in los angeles county we saw upwards of unemployment in 9%, the still of eel monte and that was almost a year and a half ago. so there are a lot of people hurting and cities that have higher rates of unemployment that i found in ohio and michigan and other parts around the country that need our attention and help. and that's what we're going to do to play our resources and help those people out on the ground. >> the president has talked quite a bit about the need to do a better job preparing high school students for college. i'm wondering whether we're sending too many kids to college right now. college graduates are having a tough time finding work. something like 20% of this year's college graduates have found jobs so far. but i'm wondering, shouldn't we be doing more to prepare people for the trades, more plumbers? more carp enters? do we need to change our thinking about this? they're working at restaurants, working at bars. >> i will be honest. i think part of what we need to do is when we retool, we'

is in california at the "orange county register" -- both houses met on sunday in our rear weekend session starting in late afternoon. the assembly speaker of los angeles announced the assembly democrats would employed a legislative ripple to pass a budget fix and tax increases without a single republican vote. anthony, welcome. caller: washington by itself has the right perception in try to help with the tarp program as well as the stimulus package, however, it is the financial institution still holding the government hostage. they did not want to ease a credit either for a home purchase, small-business enterprises, as well as vehicle loans. until we get a marriage between these two government entities i do not see the economy doing anything new. even warren buffett indicated that usually after a situation like this in which the government has induced and infused the tarp program and helped the banking industry there is usually about. there is no bounds. the reason why is because the financial institutions are not cooperating. host: calif., next on the end up in a mine. go ahead. caller: yes, i am not very hopeful about the economy straightening out.