then, when he was elected novet united states, he sought to pove the united states census from the commerce department into the white house where he could manage the census of counting the people, real or imagined, in the white house. and the public uproar over acorn caused him to back away from that and sever the relationship that he had, that acorn was to be working as a contractor with the census department. doesn't mean because they decided not to have a formal contract with acorn that acorn wasn't going to be involved in the census. we know that people are policy, that there are a lot of acorn people involved in the census. how could there not be with nearly half a million people working to create the 306 million or so people that we are. when we follow the money, when we track acorn, if the path -- the path leads us to the white house. acorn should be investigated by any legitimate justice department. kinston, north carolina, didn't need to take place. the voice of the people said, we don't want partisan elections. we don't want to vote for the political party, can selled by loretta k

it's an important job, but 400,000 people were hired to conduct the census, counting all the people in the united statesf america. when you take the 400,000 government jobs that were created temporarily and again, if you are talking about jobs, a job to me is something where you can earn a wage, have health care security,ville retirement potentially and the ability through that wage to support yourself and your family. on the long-term basis, very, very few people would consider it to be just a sweetheart job to get a job counting people in the united states and being done and not being employed when you're done with it. when you look at the jobless figures and take out the 40000 people that have been added to conduct the census, jobs are stagnant, hovering between 9% and 10%. and i have been joined by my good friend, mr. mccotter, michigan has been harder hit because of the auto industry. the gentleman from michigan can tell us what that unemployment is. by recognizing national teachers' day and taking an hour of time to do that, we haven't haven't gotten to the transportation bill. and it's about a ye

united states are changing. guest: the caller does mmke a good point about how the census tracks the population. latinos can be quite or african- american as well. we are not saying that the majority population, when you include white hispanics the population is somewhere between 20% and 75%. this is the definition that says the people of direct european ancestry, the population shifting down words. host: another call from florida. democratic line. good morning. go ahead. caller: hello. good morning. i would just like -- am i on now? most of you are. caller: be illegal immigrants coming into this country are taking jobs from legal people and i think this is wrong. the government that is supposed to be a government of laws does not follow their own laws. i think it is a total disgrace. they call this a democracy and it is far from a democracy. it is a republic represented in government that represents the people. guest: all that i can help with is to maybe put these numbers in perspective. right now 39 million of the 300 million people in the united states are foreign born immigrants. estimated t