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Individuals who are delivering that education. >> i think its false choice between good services and decent pay and pensions for workers. governor walker when he came into office he didnt have a budgeted problem. he gave a big tax cut to wealthy corporations that created the budget pressures where you end up having to pick quality against pay. you cant have both. i think unions are totally supportive as van roekel has said supporting good services and good services and making sure that workers a...

Save schools $600 million over two years. in the new berlin school district to take one example they are using those savings to hire more staff, reduce class size and add programs. what is more important? i ask this to both of you. let me start specifically with you mr. van roekel, what is more important to the e.e.a., protection to teachers or giving services to students? >> in wisconsin it wasnt about the economy, it was political decision. the unions did agree to pay more in pensions and heal...

Save schools $600 million over two years. in the new berlin school district to take one example they are using those savings to hire more staff, reduce class size and add programs. what is more important? i ask this to both of you. let me start specifically with you mr. van roekel, what is more important to the e.e.a., protection to teachers or giving services to students? >> in wisconsin it wasnt about the economy, it was political decision. the unions did agree to pay more in pensions and heal...

60% of private workers have access to pensions. 90% of state and local government workers do. 69% of private workers have access to health insurance, 87% of public workers do. private workers average $8.53 in benefits per hour, public workers get 14.31 per hour work. why should people in the private sector be paying their taxes so that government workers get more than they do? >> i think we have to turn the question around. its not so much why do some people have a pension and others not. how do...

That didnt have the money to operate. here i have the democratic mayor of san jose saying its not a false strike. its one or the other. >> in education, in particular, if you think about what the challenges that the united states is facing, we need to be competitive in a global economy. we need to tract great people in the teaching profession. we are not going to do that if we chip away at pensions and job security. how do you get the best people into public service. you wont do that by constant...

Wisconsin, san jose, california, the democratic mayor of san jose, california, jamie, supported a voter initiative and they voted to cut government worker pensions because they couldnt keep all of their fire houses open all the time. they had to close them on a rotating business and built four new libraries and couldnt open them because they didnt have the money to operate them, where do you get the revenue? and, the deputy chief of staff of the afl/cio said raise taxes on the wealthy. >> jamie:...

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nevada and florida the unemployment rate is higher than the national average. in nevada and colorado, the unemployment rate is still above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. but in the rest of the battleground states its pretty interesting. the jobs markets are improving. they have been improving since when the president became -- went into office. still improving, iowa, virginia, nevada, all have pretty low unemployment levels. 5 pst in iowa, new hampshire ...

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but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to "the new york times" and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. >> a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama ...