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His social list program, it is number three on the times best seller list. it talks a lot about wisconsin and this fight. this is a fight that is only superficially about finances. what it really is about is what karl said, education. because americans realize that it is only by limiting the power of the teachers union that you can get rid of bad teachers promote good ones and give parents choice. now that walker has taken those issues off the table in the collective bargaining process, real edu...

[ talking over each other ] >> it would behoove everybody not to go back historically and look at certain figures. i would say this about the governor of wisconsin, the last persona took collective bargaining away was carl marx. i wont call him a marxist. >> sean: fdr didnt want it. >> thats alle-. history. he did not want it for public and safety employees who do not have it now. >> they are calling critics of unions and collective bargaining process they are calling stalin and hitler. unions a...

[ talking over each other ] >> it would behoove everybody not to go back historically and look at certain figures. i would say this about the governor of wisconsin, the last persona took collective bargaining away was carl marx. i wont call him a marxist. >> sean: fdr didnt want it. >> thats alle-. history. he did not want it for public and safety employees who do not have it now. >> they are calling critics of unions and collective bargaining process they are calling stalin and hitler. unions a...

Agenda passed. two interesting things here. number one, president obama is pretty neutralized because jimmy carter and the democratic congress gutted the federal workers union in 197. and the president has made no attempt to -- doesnt even talk about it i dont even know if he knew about it i didnt know about it until friday. he is neutralized on that area. number two, there are a lot of independents who are union people sympathize with union people, even some conservative, police, fire, this and...

The term, you know, collective bargaining, collective bargaining rights. and the idea of taking them away doesnt poll very well. now, the polls are mixed on this issue, but they have made some headway with the public. i would say this about it, bill. that in wisconsin, the governor and the republicans out there, if they are going to come out ahead in the long run on this fight and even perhaps on the short run, they need to see this through. they need to pass this measure. they need to curtail t...

Agenda passed. two interesting things here. number one, president obama is pretty neutralized because jimmy carter and the democratic congress gutted the federal workers union in 197. and the president has made no attempt to -- doesnt even talk about it i dont even know if he knew about it i didnt know about it until friday. he is neutralized on that area. number two, there are a lot of independents who are union people sympathize with union people, even some conservative, police, fire, this and...

Representatives on their side of the bargaining table but through the political process campaign donations working for candidates, they can help decide who is sitting on the other side. so it makes for a kind of a situation which is arguably corrupts the collective bargaining process. its been enormously beneficial to come of these unions and to many of their workers. and if these rights are curtailed. the kind of bargaining rights they have now in many places, certainly not all, certainly not a...

Representatives on their side of the bargaining table but through the political process campaign donations working for candidates, they can help decide who is sitting on the other side. so it makes for a kind of a situation which is arguably corrupts the collective bargaining process. its been enormously beneficial to come of these unions and to many of their workers. and if these rights are curtailed. the kind of bargaining rights they have now in many places, certainly not all, certainly not a...

President richard trunka. thank you very much for joining us. >> take the monitor off, please. >> i heard -- we just listened to the governors statement, and i played at the beginning of this broadcast what he said about why he needed to change the collective bargaining rights of these unions. in fact, i would like to play it for you one more time, because i am trying to find an answer that makes sense in any way in what the governor says about that. lets listen once again to what he says about ...

>> take the monitor off, please. >> i heard -- we just listened to the governors statement, and i played at the beginning of this broadcast what he said about why he needed to change the collective bargaining rights of these unions. in fact, i would like to play it for you one more time, because i am trying to find an answer that makes sense in any way in what the governor says about that. lets listen once again to what he says about why we have to reform the collective bargaining process. >> no...