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Sacrosanct. you get accused of laying off teachers and accused of hurting kids, aen theyve used that as weve seen in the ads. theyre trying to use that argument. it will me a little about your relationship with the teachers unions and its is the public changing in its perception of how education works? >> people love their teachers. i love my teachers in the public schools in new jersey. they love the teachers, but dont love the teachers unions and because the teachers unions have been unwilling...

The teachers union, theyre sacrosanct. you get accused of laying off teachers and accused of hurting kids, aen theyve used that as weve seen in the ads. theyre trying to use that argument. it will me a little about your relationship with the teachers unions and its is the public changing in its perception of how education works? >> people love their teachers. i love my teachers in the public schools in new jersey. they love the teachers, but dont love the teachers unions and because the teachers...

>> welcome back to "fox & friends." in the midst of mass layoffs and program cuts. teachers in milwaukee, wisconsin are fighting for what they say is a right. a taxpayer funded right, viagra. it could cost nearly 800,000 to pay for it. about the the amount of 12 first year teacher salaries. milwauk milwaukee arent and education major joins us. nice to see you. >> nice. >> how does this story strike you, that the teachers union in milwaukee fighting for viagra instead of perhaps hiring new teache...

>> okay. let me -- >> two things. >> i just dont see any program cuts. youre talking in general terms. let me tell you this. the major republicans that come on television will not cut social security, medicare, medicaid. they wont cut the military, they cant cut debt servicing. they wont get rid of a major cost of government. theyll talk about lets freeze discretionary spending or discretionary and domestic in some generalized way. they wont get rid of government. they seem to like government. i...

Its nothing to sneeze at. >> i just dont see any program cuts. youre talking in general terms. let me tell you this. the major republicans that come on television will not cut social security, medicare, medicaid. they wont cut the mirt. they cant cut debt servicing. they wont get rid of a major cost of government. theyll talk about lets freeze discretionary spending or discretionary and domestic in some generalized way. they wont get rid of government. they seem to like government. in fact, they...

Peanuts. its nothing to sneeze at. >> i just dont see any program cuts. youre talking in general terms. the major republicans that come on television will not cut social security, medicare, medica medicaid. they wont cut the military. they wont get rid of a major cost of government. theyll talk about lets freeze discretionary spending or discretionary and domestic in some generalized way. they wont get rid of government. they like government. in fact, they like to talk against it. >> go to ameri...

Trying to retard progress. this year when the senate took it up, the expectation was, well, thats the senate. they need 60 votes. it will get watered down. instead, it got strengthened. we went to a public confidence. thats why i insisted and chris dodd agreed, on a public conference. we knew the more the public was paying attention, the better this bill would be. our job is to make sure public attention doesnt go away. >> as you know, the bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year,...

It up, the expectation was, well, thats the senate. they need 60 voters. it will get watered down. instead, it got strengthened. we went to a public confidence. thats why i insisted and chris dodd agreed, on a public conference. we knew the more the public was paying attention, the better this bill would be. our job is to make sure public attention doesnt go away. >> as you know, the bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year, all of them. what are the democrats going to do about th...

Paul to cut back substantially on this military overreach. we wasted more money in iraq than were ever going to be able to make up in a whole lot of other domestic program cuts which i dont support. what we need to do is to allow those tax cuts for people whose incomes are above $200,000 to expire. as to the argument this will be economically disastrous, go back to 1993, bill clinton got us to increase the marginal tax rate on that part of income, not the whole dollar income, but on that part of...

For a hamburger today. youre asking for control of congress today on the promise, promissory note that you will come up with actual program cuts. now, i keep throwing out -- you know the biggest cause of the deficit. youre more well read on this than i am. social security, medicare, medicaid. you put all the federal receipts and taxes and they could be gone right there, exhausted in those three programs. we got defense systems you could name. but nobody wants to name what they want to cut by nam...