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High income taxes but it uses these to fund things like health care and pensions that are far more efficiently run than their counterparts in america. sweden tends to be near the top of most rankings on quality of life and competitiveness but the old image of sweden has some truth to it. 20 years ago, in 1995, sweden had the largest government in europe as a share of the economy. about 65% of its gdp was government spending. since then, sweden has been reforming, opening up its economy and becom...

Now for a what in the world segment. conservatives often describe president obama as a socialist. according to these critics, the presidents goal is something called swedenization, sky-high taxes and bloated government and ruinous welfare policies. well, the president should have taken some of these conservatives with him to sweden this week. they would have found a country very different from their imagination and from the socialist sweden of the past. you know how conservatives hate death taxe...

Have the worst time of it. their unemployment rate is 16%. and also lower wage earners get hit harder and may be more prone to layoffs. the other thing is that obamacare is going to kick in soon, and basically a lot of employers are saying, we dont want to pay for these health care benefits, so were going to move full-time workers to part-time workers. >> and it seems like people get that part of it, and thats why there is this concern for doing more work for less benefits. >> yeah. theyre worri...

Lobst lobster, cheesecake factory. if you are running a restaurant and youve got thousands and thousands of employees, now suddenly your paycheck process is very complicated. what did you make this hour, what did you make that hour? if you are a waiter or waitress you would have to wait two weeks until all of that got sorted out until you got your tips. you will see what you see in taxicabs and new york city where they give you options. 15,%, 18%, 20%, what would you like to leave? remains to be...

California. whether its blue, purple or red states, voters are on the same page. we have bipartisanship on main street america. and people want in this area of corporations cutting pensions, people want to expand, not cut them. >> i know your group has done a lot of work on obama care as well. where are we going to be a year from now in your opinion, going into the midterms. is this going to be a health care story that democrats on the campaign trail are going to be able to positively out the be...

The other side of this. theres an old proverb that says until the lion tells his own story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the punt hunter. we want to tell our own story. its important to have business involved in the city of detroit but we dont need a downtown detroit and a neighborhood detroit. we need one detroit. so while were glad that "morning joe" came in to talk about detroit and he talked to a number of individuals, absent the input of individuals like us from the neighborhood an...

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Bankruptcy. meanwhile, the pensions of 23,500 city retires remains at stake. joining me tonight for the other side of the story, our rapid response panel, jennifer granholm, and president of afscme, lee saunders. good to have you both with us tonight governor, what happened, in your opinion, over the long haul, to detroit michigan, and where is it right now? he says the business district is thriving. >> first of all, clearly detroits the poster child for the deindustrialization of america. in 19...

Thats why these pickets are really more of a broad demand than a specific unionization demand. they just want better wages, some better hours, a bit fairer treatment. >> john nichols, thanks so much. still to come, detroits bankruptcy has tens of thousands of retires hanging in the balance. i know theres real good things in detroit, but what about those folks right there? their homes, their pensions that are jobs, ill ask our rapid-response spaniel if these workers will ever seer their pension...

On the pensions of the 22, 23,000 workers who have given their lives to public service, averaging $19,000 a year, and their pensions are on the line. i just dont think its right. we think its an unconstitutional act, we think its immoral and thats why were in court. were going to continue to battle this effort. i mean, it may be true that the downtown area is thriving, but i was in detroit about four weeks ago. all you have to do is walk outside that downtown area. you see houses that are abando...