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Extremely powerful. you have to understand, theres a national lobby now pushing to sustain these prison systems and to build them, essentially. because they have become part of the economic engine in states like california. >> that strikes me as so important. victoria, this idea that the people who are working there now constitute the majority of those state workers. i just kept thinking, im sorry, didnt i just hear a supreme court ruling telling california to shed prisoners? the next thing i kn...

Discovered at four facilities. >> so those facilities are big, theres a lot of machinery left behind. that machinery needs to be decontaminated so that there is no cadmium left on that material. and that will be expensive. >> reporter: a reported $2.2 million job. the state health d. says no state or federal dollars will be used to take care of this, but in addition to those panels, state workers also found 55 gallon drums of cadmium-contaminated fluids in tanks filled with 2500 gallons of conta...

>> weve got two other republicans in the news getting slammed. a new report in "the washington post" says vas governor bob mcdonald has billed taxpayers for a number of items that should have been paid for by his family. spending records show the republican governor and his wife used taxpayer money for body wash, sunscreen and dog vitamins. >> you cant do that? >> state workers -- >> i have to go back and amend quite a few financial statements from the 90s. >> state workers were asked -- >> stay...

State? well, obamacare might end that luxury. state and local governments have an option of moving their retirees into affordable care acts new exchanges, shifting the burden to the federal government, hence the taxpayer. stuart varney is here and you predicted this. >> many times on this program, we predicted this kind of bailout for pension and health plans of retired city and state workers. this is how its going to happen. you transfer the health care benefits to workers, from the health care...

Gigantic welfare benefits. >> neil: their idea of prosperity -- theyre talking about instead of retiring at 52, you have to retire at 54, and france is 49. leveling that aside, this development from illinois where theyre going to ask state workers to kick in more for their pension, that could be of that ilk. that, we need you to cough up more. >> going to go down tough for people who work for the government, but we see local governments, state governments, that are in shambles. they let people r...

When you have terrorism, its to put thousands of state another dimension. workers into these health care listen, yes, we havent had a exchanges at the expense of terrorist jump across the rio taxpayers who are probably getting f.b.i.d off about it grande lately or since 9-11. because theyll be paying for but its the same sort of checks it, right, dagen? >> absolutely. and balances that go on. if you think medicare looks bad, those guys got into the country medicare is a walk in the park to what ...

And by the way, lets cut the this coming with health and human services missing all these f.b.i. some slack. rule making deadlines. its very easy to second guess that not everybody followed up millions of dollars set aside on this or that. for people to help get workers they have a lot of work to do. on to these exchanges, the government is going to ask for >> i agree. >> we always know about the more and more and more money things they miss and hindsight because they cant implement it is always...

>> neil: going to have get the money from somewhere else to pay for all of this. where do you think that is going to come from? >> more taxes. there are so many hidden taxes in the affordable healthcare bill which is strange name. we all are going to be paying. initially, just the rich and then the semi rich and then the non-rich. >> neil: yeah, that is ben talking to me. [ laughter ] >> neil: his diagnosis looking spot on. especially with washington state looking to put thousands of state worke...

>> with all due respect, adam you may be right. >> ah! you agree with me. to get people into it. >> insurance companies are going to raise their premiums everybody will hate them. they will leave them. state workers will leave the present system and join the exchanges and private workers will follow especially those that have been dumped from the employer plan. then it will be uncle sam providing coverage. >> there is no doubt that a single payer system is what the many policymakers wanted and w...

To be when they hire somebody . every small business knows if they reach the 50 thres hold of 50 employees, they will have enormous increases in terms of hiring people and they are ramping down instead of expanding. you will get hit with a lot of news and put that together. no surprize this thing is starting to slow gan. >> the white house said it is a self-inflicted wound and pointing to the pay roll tax increase that was part of the fiscal deal in january and pointing to the sequester, are the...