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Disinclination to cover liberal ideas and politics that explains it or is this the thing thats introduced by the people that arent taken seriously on fiscal matters no matter what they say about them? >> its a bit of both. the basic mode of coverage is the establishment press act as stenographers to power. you have the opposition represented by paul ryan. that defines it boundaries of debate because the media faithfully reflects the poll of debate. if you are coming from outside the polls or in ...

Should be soon. the sooner we can do it -- we did this as part of a budget repair bill for the fiscal we did it to set it up for the next budget. we faced a 3.6 billion dollar deficit this allows us to save 1.7 billion dollars that more than offsets cuts we have in spending to local governments. >> greta: explain to me, in in the court system is not giving up know toys your opponents. why dont -- giving up notice to your opponents. you have your quorum, the assembly, house and the senate and you...

Should be soon. the sooner we can do it -- we did this as part of a budget repair bill for the fiscal we did it to set it up for the next budget. we faced a 3.6 billion dollar deficit this allows us to save 1.7 billion dollars that more than offsets cuts we have in spending to local governments. >> greta: explain to me, in in the court system is not giving up know toys your opponents. why dont -- giving up notice to your opponents. you have your quorum, the assembly, house and the senate and you...

Bill. as we were watching on friday at about 3:15 the bureau posted on the website that the bill had been published. and it was enacted into law. >> greta: a republican or democrat, steve miller? >> i dont believe he has a partisan -- we have bureaus that work for us, fiscal, reference, legislative council. they are staunchly nonpartisan. >> greta: this is more administerial rather than political? >> correct. much like the secretary of states job. >> greta: 30 seconds left. everyone must be pret...

Republican. you have to look at the party aspect of this. who is in charge of the legislative reference bureau? >> the legislative reference bureau works for the legislature. it is directly answerable to the is amendmentably and senate here in wisconsin. >> greta: who made the decision to actually publish it? you say the secretary of state told the bureau when. somebody in the reference bureau had to carry it out. who made that decision? >> director of the bureau steve miller. it is his job as h...

Cuts, and counting it twice. >> they are. looks, theyre counting it once to improve the solvency of medicare which is $30 trillion under water, so you heard her say were were going to improve the fiscal -- strength of the system, it will extend its period of -- by 12 years that its sole vent, and they also then pay for health care reform, with that $500 billion. they do the same with $53 billion in payroll taxes, paid -- additional social security payroll taxes paid as a result of the act, they ...

Frankly. because you know, look, we passed the dodd/frank act. the banks would say they feel like it was pretty tough. >> sure. see how theyre bigger and more profitable than ever. i would hate to see something even tougher. >> and i think democrats and republicans are kind of happy to be past the issue, but i think the american people would have felt more satisfied if somebody would have been held to account, if there would have been -- >> forget about somebody being held to account, what about...

To collective bargaining. thats policy. nothing do with the fiscal. >> greta: the republicans won the election. the democrats didnt for better or worse. youre stuck with that until next election cycle. i dont know how you duck that one. >> the problem is this, truth has become collateral damage. yes scott walker ran on the fact that he would negotiate real tough with the unions. he never said that he was going to destroy unions. he never said that he was going to get rid of workers rights. if he...

Who wins? who loses? >> the american people will lose. the veteran who relies on getting their held benefits. the people will lose. >> they will lose either way. getting to your point about the dumts in the room. if they dont come together with a solid, grown-up plan to addrs the fiscal ails of this nation, the american people, youre right, will lose. the reality is all the hyper ventilating has to stop. you cannot have your cake and eat it to in this economic climate. were take care of the weal...

Hurting deeply and profoundly this country. jeopardizing our our future. >> european prime ministers for last 20 years ignored the debt, ignored the crushing obligations piled on by the welfare state. now we have greece and italy and spain teetering on the brink of fiscal in van . obama knows these warnings the -- the fact he wont respond has been tacked by the "washington post", "new york times" and some of his friends. he is ignoring the peril that hit europe. >> sean: the problem mo, hes fail...