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About this. hes talking about the budget. hes doing union busting activities. megyn: lets tell our viewers what the governor says. he says these changes will help balance the $137 million budget shortfall. a $3.6 billion the next two years and i have no choice because i am going to get rid of collective bargaining because i dont have anything to garbage with. >> he gave tax breaks to businesses that supported him in the early part of his term. so that doesnt hold any water. had he not given tax ...

Head into sessions today. we had a fistful of amendments to try and make a lousy bill a little bit better and it became very clear to us that the republican leadership wasnt going to consider the amendments, certainly not pass any of the amendments. and we were left with just this option on the table. governor walker introduced this legislation late friday afternoon of last week, and now he wants it to be law this week and its making sweeping changes in the state of wisconsin. and youre right, t...

Head into sessions today. we had a fistful of amendments to try and make a lousy bill a little bit better and it became very clear to us that the republican leadership wasnt going to consider the amendments, certainly not pass any of the amendments. and we were left with just this option on the table. governor walker introduced this legislation late friday afternoon of last week, and now he wants it to be law this week and its making sweeping changes in the state of wisconsin. and youre right, t...

Jobs and careers, chasing the middle-classers down to try to fix what some people view as a very bogus and ginned-up financial crisis in this state. and this governor is backed by the tea partyers, and we definitely are going to show the infrastructure tonight on our show exactly who the people are that are backing this governor. you get a sense that he is way off base, that he may have won the election but now on february 17th, just a few months later, so much has changed in this state because ...

This down to pure old-fashioned union busting. >> well, thats the feeling here on the ground, lawrence. i mean, these americans are willing to sit at the table and talk about budget issues. but they dont want to be arbitrarily browbeaten and told, you know what, you cant talk about it, this is the way its going to be, its my way or the highway, and if you dont do it, theres going to be a lot of cuts. thats not how things should be done. its very heavy handed. it plays right into a bigger nationa...

About how he believes in the concept of unions and how valuable these people are to the operating of the government and the basic functions of the state of wisconsin. but he also said in that interview that there are fiscal realities that have to be addressed. and it somewhat is being interpreted by a lot of wisconsinites that the president is opening the door for governor walker to come in here and make the arbitrary cuts against these middle-class americans without it really being justified. i...

>> i think the president was speaking there in generic terms about how he believes in the concept of unions and how valuable these people are to the operating of the government and the basic functions of the state of wisconsin. but he also said in that interview that there are fiscal realities that have to be addressed. and it somewhat is being interpreted by a lot of wisconsinites that the president is opening the door for governor walker to come in here and make the arbitrary cuts against thes...

Troopers? >> whats the other thing about them? oh, those are the three exact unions that supported the republican governor in the last election. so they get taken care of. everybody else gets dismantled. that should have been the first hint that this maybe was about politics and not about a fiscal crisis. heres another hint. if this union busting thing thats on the table right now is all supposedly about fiscal realities, all nothing personal, we just got to take these dramatic actions, save som...

We were perfectly willing to head into sessions today. we had a fistful of amendments to try and make a lousy bill a little bit better and it became very clear to us that the republican leadership wasnt going to consider the amendments, certainly not pass any of the amendments. and we were left with just this option on the table. governor walker introduced this legislation late friday afternoon of last week, and now he wants it to be law this week and its making sweeping changes in the state of ...

The union busting and the attempts to break up labor. 13 states are looking at paycheck deception type of legislation. three bills have already passed in oklahoma that are anti-worker. and now its into iowa. 12 states are dealing with right-to-work issues and five states with dues deduction issues, which is huge. and it is all about the money. and if there has ever been a group of people that get it, these people here in wisconsin get it. the focal point and the protesting is taking place here i...