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Millions of stockholders. to save a few 10,000 jobs but also sent a few 10,000 jobs overseas and it stuck it to the delphi folks by taking their pensions away. there were lots of ways to save gm. not the way president obama did. bill: this backs up your argument, governor. unemployment rates is up 7.8% in january of 2009. 8.3% today. reading left to right. median income is down, off almost $5,000 in 3 1/2 years. gallon of gasoline is up. almost doubled. 1.84 to 3.82. national debt up about $6 tr...

In massachusetts, have people who avoid talking, but not this guy, and, not this next lady, because we dont, you know, we dont gobble them up and annoy. i will address with you what i rayed with mr. trumka, americans at home looking at this are getting fairly or not, a jaded view of unions and many in cities like san jose are bringing in and asking unions to rein in either their health care benefits, their pensions because the taxpayers are saying, no more, we cannot afford it. >>guest: what has...

Make money, a lot of peoples pensions went down the drain and their health care went with it. people understand takeover. people understand corporate sharks. people understand something that was said in that movie wall street. for a lack of a better word, greed is good, and romney has been greedy. who in their right mind runs a campaign on labor day and invites the press to show you getting on a yacht? >> and sailing. but let me go back to you quickly, crystal. harry reid said we dont know who m...

>> welcome back. 23 after the hour. the battle for your holiday business is already underway. wal-mart announcing it is rolling back the lay away fee from $15 now to 5 bucks. it comes one day after toys r us announced it is offering free lay away until the end of october. a rare sight in new jersey last night. take a look at this. its a funnel cloud caught on camera near belmar new jersey. the strong winds brought down large trees and power lines. over to you, heather. >> thank you so much. repu...

Government employees, unions, liberal institutions, everything from the ohio teachers union to the los angeles police department, all of these blue states, government employees, invest in bain capital. they put their money, their retirement fund, their pensions in bain. and so right now bain is responsible for the lively hoods martha, and retirement funds of all of these traditionally democratic workers which make up obamas base. to say somehow the bain vulture capitalist firm doesnt do good wor...

Those folks? >> i say vote your pocketbook. we go out and basically talk to thousands of people. i dont do it, i know larry doesnt, and yes there are people in there, either because of, you know, some issue of guns or abortion or something, that are off on a different track. we have to make them come back home and say, hey, the issues are, theyre trying to destroy what you are enjoying now. your union, the good pay you have, your health care, your pensions. theyre against that. thats the mesenin...

Mrs. -- the first lady toured the stage and getting familiar with the hall. the audience mostly workers and many of whom are still arriving and many were delayed by the thunderstorms. president obama toured some of the damage boy louisiana. consoling the victims and thanking the first responders. he celebrated labor day and aiming to block mitt romneys road to the white house. >> it is working people like you who have to lay the cornerstones. things that people take for granted and were not alwa...

I mean really with him. its going to be that close. so what are your expectations of the president? >> i think he has to continue to do what we just heard today. hes got to speak to american workers, both union and not. and say that i stand with you. i stand against the offshoring of jobs. i stand against the pay cuts. against the health care cuts. against the elimination of retirement security. whether its social security or pensions on the jobs. i stand with you. young and old, american workin...

Taxes on the very rich. and you know what? thats what its all about. >> mr. cohen, can this country trust mitt romney. can wage earners trust mitt romney from what you heard last week? >> not at all. mitt romney brought us a new verb in the english language. bained. workers know theyre bained when their jobs are sent out of the country. theyre bained when their pay is cut, when they lose their pensions and health care. thats what mitt romney is about. by contrast, the president in his labor day ...

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