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Cant cut gsa. they buy every think cant afford. >> g is the line item for buildings and renovations. he mentions in that ba 61 and in another video ba 54. these are the two categories, one of them is building, maintenance and operations. the other is for renovations of buildings and includes the stimulus money. >> for those of you who dont know what a gs 15 is. thats a top tier civil servant. these are the managers and they get the big paychecks and the pensions and it makes you wonder if the gs...

We will end up like spain and greece and uk and germany and everybody else. >> sean: and that means austerity measures and people that actually believe the government promises about benefits of whatever kind or another and when the benefits are taken away anger, frustration, taking to the streets, rioting. do you see that? >> rightfully so. i mean look, if you are working and you are promised that you are going to get a pension and it is promised to you with the great thought of the politicians ...

Have their crummy deuce. he should have made the battleground just this, working to gradually replace those lavish pensions with a 401k style pensions which is what your taxpayers have to put up with in their lives. he should have made that the battleground and then the public would have been behind him. >> lets get back to the central question. if the recall is effective, he is recalled, does that affect taxpayers everywhere, not just which? everywhere. >> i think scott walker will end up being...

We will end up like spain and greece and uk and germany and everybody else. >> sean: and that means austerity measures and people that actually believe the government promises about benefits of whatever kind or another and when the benefits are taken away anger, frustration, taking to the streets, rioting. do you see that? >> rightfully so. i mean look, if you are working and you are promised that you are going to get a pension and it is promised to you with the great thought of the politicians ...

We will end up like spain and greece and uk and germany and everybody else. >> sean: and that means austerity measures and people that actually believe the government promises about benefits of whatever kind or another and when the benefits are taken away anger, frustration, taking to the streets, rioting. do you see that? >> rightfully so. i mean look, if you are working and you are promised that you are going to get a pension and it is promised to you with the great thought of the politicians ...

Something else, something bigger across the country. public employee unions work for the taxpayers. the idea that they can vote themselves higher benefits turns democracy i think into tyranny. if the wisconsin voters vote the wrong way and this goes national, it will be a scenario americans work for the government rather than the government working for the people. its a very dangerous signal. >> do you reject that completely, mr. baldwin? >> i dont. in his hometown hes basically working for the ...

month. the good news, the unemployment rate fell to 8.2%. thats the lowest since february 2009, one month after president obama took office. and not surprisingly, republicans wasted no time in attacking the white house. mitt romney called it a weak and troubling jobs report and said, "millions of americans are paying a high price for president obamas economic policies." now, dont be shocked, president obama saw the glass half full. >> our economys now created more than 4 million privat...

thats 100,000 less than last month. the good news, the unemployment rate fell to 8.2%. thats the lowest since february 2009, one month after president obama took office. and not surprisingly, republicans wasted no time in attacking the white house. mitt romney called it a weak and troubling jobs report and said, "millions of americans are paying a high price for president obamas economic policies." now, dont be shocked, president obama saw the glass half full. >> our economys now creat...

good evening. im john avalon in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, new jobs number and the predictable partisan spin cycle. the economy added only 120,000 new jobs in march. thats 100,000 less than last month. the good news, the unemployment rate fell to 8.2%. thats the lowest since february 2009, one month after president obama took office. and not surprisingly, republicans wasted no time in attacking the white house. mitt romney called it a weak and troubling jobs report and said,...

A tragic example. >> crowd shared in the grief and desperation of one man. retired greek pharmacist who killed himself wednesday so that according to his suicide note, he would not face the prospect of scavaging through garbage cans for food and becoming a burden to his family. >> translator: its shame, a great shame. one of us. from the family. >> reporter: suicide rates are way up in the debt-ridden country but the public one struck a nerve with those enraged about austerity measures. proteste...