matthew mitchell is at george mason university's mercatus center. guest: we are a research institute that focuses on the intersection of public policy through the economic plans and try to bridge the gap. host: politically on the spectrum? guest: i would say we are a market-oriented think tank. we do have a view that and a lot of ways market solutions tend to be superior solutions. host: and isabelle sawhill, economic studies senior fellow at the brookings institution. i would start with you -- and interesting photograph of why obama loves reagan. you see a picture of the president and a former president together. i would like to ask you, how does this debate differ from the supply side debate versus the keynesian debate of the 1980's? guest: i think, by the way, one of the things obama shares with president reagan is they are both very upbeat, very optimistic. i thought the state of the union address was a very upbeat talk about how we can win the future if we did the right things. on economics, i think there really is a difference because supply s

matthew mitchell is at george mason university's mercatus center. guest: we are a research institute that focuses on the intersection of public policy through the economic plans and try to bridge the gap. host: politically on the spectrum? guest: i would say we are a market-oriented think tank. we do have a view that and a lot of ways market solutions tend to be superior solutions. host: and isabelle sawhill, economic studies senior fellow at the brookings institution. i would start with you -- and interesting photograph of why obama loves reagan. you see a picture of the president and a former president together. i would like to ask you, how does this debate differ from the supply side debate versus the keynesian debate of the 1980's? guest: i think, by the way, one of the things obama shares with president reagan is they are both very upbeat, very optimistic. i thought the state of the union address was a very upbeat talk about how we can win the future if we did the right things. on economics, i think there really is a difference because supply s

matthew mitchell is at george mason university's mercatus center. guest: we are a research institute that focuses on the intersection of public policy through the economic plans and try to bridge the gap. host: politically on the spectrum? guest: i would say we are a market-oriented think tank. we do have a view that and a lot of ways market solutions tend to be superior solutions. host: and isabelle sawhill, economic studies senior fellow at the brookings institution. i would start with you -- and interesting photograph of why obama loves reagan. you see a picture of the president and a former president together. i would like to ask you, how does this debate differ from the supply side debate versus the keynesian debate of the 1980's? guest: i think, by the way, one of the things obama shares with president reagan is they are both very upbeat, very optimistic. i thought the state of the union address was a very upbeat talk about how we can win the future if we did the right things. on economics, i think there really is a difference because supply s

where we were and start figuring out how to face where we will be here to discuss with me as matthew mitchell research fellow with the state and local policy project at the kind of center matthew thanks so much for being here thanks for having me what you say nearly ten percent unemployment it's been going up and down you know as high as nine point eight percent in november is this something that's here to stay for a while are we supposed to just get used to it well hopefully it's not going to be here for too much longer but the truth is it's here much longer than it's been in past recessions and while much of the rest of the economy has recovered employment still hasn't why do you think that is i think a lot of a lot of it has to do with the fact that washington in many ways has sort of dismissed diagnose this recession so. roughly speaking the economy is basically the result of the intersection of supply and demand but washington has almost unilaterally seen the recession as a as a demand problem and so if it's a demand problem they think that there's a really easy answer which is to just g

percentage is here to stay but how does america deal with a tenth of its population without work matthew mitchell will give us his thoughts on the statistic and also did you know the police are now able to a lot of police search your phone if you're arrested without a search warrant pretty scary right well i thought so so we had ryan ready a do it join us to find out if there are ways to protect your private information from the cops that's at the end of the show now let's move on to our top story. it's officially been two years since barack obama was sworn in as president the united states he was surrounded by americans who are filled with hope looking for change following positive messages as a means to turn this country around but is that hope still alive artie's kalen for takes a look at how washington thinks about the president two years later. two years ago today washington welcome to barack obama to the white house was. it two years later the streets of washington tell a different story was like a man knowing frustration at broken promises like closing guantanamo bay we are here to force h

matthew mitchell is based at george mason university's mercatus center. isabel sawhill is at brookings institute. the next call is from connecticut. this is charles, a caller: republican good morning. this is perhaps not germane, but it is something that has aggravated me for ages. i would like to have the government refer not to a budget, because as i understand it, when most families figure a budget, at the top of the page they put down what their income is, then they list all things they will have to spend money on such as food and rent and mortgage and transportation and so forth. if thanumber comes out bigger than the number of the top of the page, they go back and cut down onther thing the government does not seem to work that way. i would like to know if from now on, can we refer to it as the government's expense account? guest: i will start and say i like your idea in general and i think the government does need to learn to live within its means, which is really what you are talking about. we had a lot of problems back in 2008 leading up to where

journal,'s washington a discussion about federal spending and the economy with matthew mitchell and isabel sawhill. we will talk to new york university professor paul white about the president's state of the union speech. washington journal begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c- span. >> sunday on road to the white house, tim pawlenty. the presidential candidate spoke at a public takes event in bedford, new hampshire, part of a two-day visit to the state. new hampshire will host their first primary. as the gop field takes shape, tin in to the road to the white house. >> i need to save for the record, i philosophically have always been opposed to a taxpayer dollars being used for political advocacy of any kind. >> oklahoma republican tom cole offered a bill to reduce the deficit. all of the entire debate and the final vote on line with c-span's congressional chronicle with time lines and transcripts of every house and senate session. congressional chronicle at c- span.org/congress. at george washington university today, homeland security secretary janet napolitano at spoke about her ag

matthew mitchells is a new face. first time here. he has his p hfd in economics from mason university. his research focuses on spending in which ways government policy develop and how it impacts what measures of well being. let's get to calls for the two guests beginning with norwalk, connecticut. tom, you're on, tom. >> caller: hi, this is more for isabel to answer. if obama keeps on pulling money out of the private sector through his policies and keeps adding to the regulations of the private sector or the business sector, if you pull money out of the private sector and give it to the public sector, you shrink the money in the private sector, and it keeps the job growth down and exacerbates this long unemployment that we're seeing. do you see anything, a change in the heart of obama in his policies since the election of the tea partyers that will change his policy towards continuing high tax or raising taxes and regulations on the private sector? >> guest: i think in the state of the union address, you saw a very clear picture of t

matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, david sanger and andrea mitchell. helene cooper and then phac kara. and now it has come to egypt. the domino effect may bring fire to other arab states. the president that has been in the watch and wait position for much of the last three days vifri spoke to the listing, revolutionaries in the rest of the arab world. >> around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens. that's true here this the united states. that's true in asia. it is true in europe. it is true in africa and it is certainly true in the arab world, where a new generation of citizens has the right to be heard. chris: we had a euro-centric foreign policy for years. this is a third-world look. he seems simm thick in talking to the people in the streets and possibly the people in the streets of the other countries. >> he is. the president put the onus completely on president mubarak. he had demands that president mubarak release the internet and telephone service, which of course would allow the protesters to organize and build up some more. he insisted that pr

matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, david sanger and andrea mitchell. helene cooper and then phac kara. and now it has come to egypt. the e presesidenent that has be the watch and wait position for much of the last three days vifri spoke to the listing, relutionarararararararararararar >>>> araroundnd tthe worlrld g have an obligation to respond to their citizens. that's true here this the united states. that's true in asia. it is true in europe. it is true in africa and it is certainly true in the arab world, where a new generation of citizens has the right to be heard. chris: we had a euro hhhhhhhhh ththis i is a third-world look. he seems simm thick in talking to the people in the streets and streets of the other countries. >> he is. the president put the onus >>>. he hadsdent mmubararak release the internetd telephone service, which of course would allow the protesters to organize and build up some more. he insisted that president mubarak not shoot anybody in the streets. his only request of the protesters was that they remain peaceful. this was not a president that was stepping out