Page 37 - Budget Issues News Today

Cities or the towns around tripoli like one that is 60 kilometers outside of tripoli has fallen to the empty dying movement, but it seems that he may be preparing for his last stand in tripoli and, obviously, libyans who have 42 years of experience with this man dont put anything past him. they are worried that he could pull out everything he has in his arsenal to try to -- philosophy. >> that scares everybody at this point. ben wedeman, live for us out of benghazi, ben, thanks. come back to t...

Through contracts before the new legislature took over. the governor asked for them not to do that. they still came into session. they did not have all their votes counted, so they lost. but they tried to push through a two year contract that was going to force the governors hand. and so he responded with this particular bill. so the connection is in order to have the concessions, he had to come in heavy handedly with a proposal which he has done in order to get them to concede. >> but let me as...

It will be like the beatles. fellow extremists are going to call for establishment of sharia law and the islamic thinkers society. they believe that communism is dead. communism the future of america. now, look. go to the next slide. i love this next one. they say that jihadists -- could i have go low-tech. capitalism is dying and islam the only solution, democracy is had i pock chris, ruled by divine law not man made law. then another important date is coming up friday march 4th. this is when w...

Were ready to accept your investments. >> but youre off this week and you have $61 billion worth of budget cuts coming to your chamber. have you had a chance to look at in detail? >> no, no, the office is tearing it apart and finding out some of the budget issues that were cut. we want to know why it went from 100% to zero. obviously, our staff is there and working it through. we get briefed regularly and obviously, we are in the debt ceiling, its an opportunity to move forward with some of thes...

It will be like the beatles. fellow extremists are going to call for establishment of sharia law and the islamic thinkers society. they believe that communism is dead. communism the future of america. now, look. go to the next slide. i love this next one. they say that jihadists -- could i have go low-tech. capitalism is dying and islam the only solution, democracy is had i pock chris, ruled by divine law not man made law. then another important date is coming up friday march 4th. this is when w...

Earlier in the show and probably for the last several weeks, weve talked about the battle over the federal budget. that seems a little removed, compared to your reality. and that is that states and some municipalities are facing their own showdown over budget cuts. weve been seeing it all week. in wisconsin. lets bring in the governor of montana. governor brian schitzer. montana is not in the dire situation that illinois and new jersey and new york and pennsylvania and california are. but youve ...

Democrats cant be vocal about it, when are they going to do it? >> ed, i think the proof that this is about union busting is what we just heard from senator taylor. senator taylor said that the democrats in the senate are prepared to negotiate on the financial items. they are prepared to negotiate on how much an increase there might be in terms of public workers, contributions to their health premiums and to their pensions. theyre willing to talk about a possibility there on the numbers. but the...

This is about union busting is what we just heard from senator taylor. senator taylor said that the democrats in the senate are prepared to negotiate on the financial items. they are prepared to negotiate on how much an increase there might be in terms of public workers, contributions to their health premiums and to their pensions. theyre willing to talk about a possibility there on the numbers. but the thing that theyre stuck on is this absolute and strict limitation on what the union function ...

Theyre paying for the past abuses. >> there you have it. democratic governor, youre speaking for labor. hes saying these big pension deals are breaking the states. your reaction? >> my reaction is then we should sit down and negotiate. thats how we solve problems in this state. not by writing bills that take our rights away to negotiate. we negotiate contracts every day and we bargain hard issues every day and we revolve issues every day. this has nothing to do with these budget issues or these ...

This down to pure old-fashioned union busting. >> well, thats the feeling here on the ground, lawrence. i mean, these americans are willing to sit at the table and talk about budget issues. but they dont want to be arbitrarily browbeaten and told, you know what, you cant talk about it, this is the way its going to be, its my way or the highway, and if you dont do it, theres going to be a lot of cuts. thats not how things should be done. its very heavy handed. it plays right into a bigger nationa...