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>> well, at the same time that you have these unbelievable protesters marching unarmed, for example into tripoli, into -- right into these people with machine guns, you have an international community thats essentially wringing its hands. and there are things that we can do. nobody is proposing that we invade libya. that would be a mistake for a million reasons. but its imperative right now that we send signals to peel off the libyan military from gadhafi himself and there are ways we can signal...

Communitying essentially raising its hands. and there are things we can do. nobody is proposing we invade libya. that would be a mistake for a millions reasons. its imperative we send signals to peel off the libyan military from gadhafi himself. and there are ways we can signal that. and were basically talking about talking. were not going anything more. >> give us specific examples of what the international community should do. >> well, i think one basic thing we can do is work on a no-fly zone...

Further punish the people of libya. the action violate international norms and every standard of common decency. this violence must stop. the united states strongly supports the universal rights of the libyan people that includes the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech and the ability of the libyan people to determine their own destiny. these are human rights. they are not negotiable. they must be respected in every country. they cannot be denied through violence or suppression. in a volati...

This is about paying government employees more to do less. by giving them special privileges attack pair . theres a conflict teen the imperative for a greater scope of government and the imperative for more expensive government. with limited resources you cant did both. >> paul: colin, a lot of states already do not have collective bargaining rights. indiana by executive order repealed those some years ago. >> right. this is a thing where we think collective bargaining as something that has alwa...

Hours was time enough to raise taxes and the taxpayers of wisconsin by a billion dollars and unprecedented 17 hours of public hearing testimony by the joint finance committee is not long enough. the reality they are not doing their job. they belong back here just like all the state workers and local workers across the state which i appreciate went to work today to do their jobs. state senate needs to do their job. until they do were going to wait because its imperative we get this done first. ab...

This isnt about government anymore, this is about paying government employees more to do less and giving the special privileges at taxpayer expense, theres a conflict between those two imperatives, an imperative for greater scope of government and more expensive government. and with limited resources, you cant do both. >> paul: colin, a lot of states already do know the have collective bargaining rights. i think indiana by executive order repealed those someors ago. >> right. i mean, this is the...

Necessary. >> bill: imperative that we do that. take it back three years, say this is what we are going to spend in 2012, exactly what we spent in 2008. or we are going to start the debate there. start it there. if there are pressing needs we could up it a little bit. if there arent we could down it a little bit. im glad you agree with me on that because you know this stuff much better than i do. in president obamas budget and colmes is trying to pedophile the issue. he wants to raise $493 billi...

Lets talk about cutting the social security administration. democrats say that this will cause furloughs and that will slow benefits to recipients and republicans say that is simply not true. >> republicans are trying to make cuts across the board as much as they can. democrats, though, are also looking to seize on any of these cuts as sort of a moment for political opportunity. they have been talking the entire time but it is imperative that republicans dont touch social security. it as huge pa...

Two years agoious 24 hours was time enough to raise taxes on the taxpayers of wisconsin by a billion dollars. now a week and 17 hours of public hearing testimony by the joint finance committee is not long enough, the reality is theyre not doing their job. they belong back here like all the state workers across the state who i appreciate went to work today to do their job. until they do, were going to wait. this is imperative we get this done first. >> is it essential to collect the bargaining ri...

Government would seek to enforce it you or any other state. >> which to me means that as long as this -- if the federal government chooses to appeal the ruling, i think all these deadlines are -- will be held in abeyance. i would like to see the other governors join me and well sort out the money that we have taken, well sort out what that means in the future, once this is all unraveled by the supreme court. >> greta: thats why it is imperative we have a quick review in the supreme court. and im...