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Numbers before but i am looking at gallup and rasmussen. >>neil: you look at the trend. >>guest: the trend. >>neil: it goes from heavy to the president and now not heavy to the president. >>guest: the president got a burn out of the harder than to believe numbers that came out on unemployment. >>neil: not much. do the polls reflect that? or is that a delay? >>guest: it is having an effect, a little bit of come down you with it doesnt matter. i told you before the debate, the debate is not about ...

-- concerning public employees, including collective bargaining powers, scheduled to -- compensation, and procedures and... rick: that was the scene, yesterday, in the ohio state house, as lawmakers voted to approve the budget bill, it affects safety workers, teachers, nurses, safety workers, meaning firemen, police officers, other types of government personnel, unions will be able to negotiate wages but will not be able to negotiate health care, sick time, pension benefits, and the bill elimina...

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>>guest: i dont know. i do think, i go back to this point, when you have deficits as large as we have right now, it is time to start pruning. maybe we dont have to eliminate corporation for public broadcasting but we can cut the program and i think we should cut programs 20 percent or 30 percent across the board and bring in experts to show how to cut program but still provide the services we want. >>neil: thank you. he puts this in perspective in his book, and in the meantime coming up on fox b...

And i said can you send me this list of people that are now working this 863,000, just send me 20 names. they said they dont care the lists so the numbers are estimates and someone jumped the estimate and got the number under 8 percent. job well done. it is amazing to me that many journalists out there that are blasting jack welch should be doing their job and investigating the number rather than investigating what josh welch -- jack well were has to say. >>neil: in other words investigate how h...

What can we cut? we have $1.1 trillion deficit and that was an improvement. >>neil: the argument is, it is chump change. but you add them up, it adds up. >>guest: i do watch pbs a lot, sometimes i listen to npr but people would listen to it and watch it and like the programming, they should pay if it. talk about childrens programming. it used to be "sesame" was the only game in town, the most successful program in the history of tv. now this are hundreds of programs like "sesame street" on pay f...

Turns, and in way would i suggest that obama can sail into the white house for a second term without a struggle and i think he recognizes that and it is important we recognize he brought people back to the payroll and he is looking to figure out how to best position himself and nose doubt the economy is pro tempore, -- important but it will not be a magic wand because we have not seen the improvement that we need. >>neil: thank you very were. in the meantime, in st. paul, where we have a handica...

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