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Appealing the workers union law there. the republican governor, scott walker, pressed for the sweeping changes to union rules to try to eliminate the states budget deficit. it prompted massive protests at the states capitol in dispb efforts to recall walker. most public employees have to pay more for benefits and eliminated bargaining rights. governor walker handily won the recall. >> brand-new demonstrations in new york city. the organizers say the three-day event will be more laid-back than th...

Saying $300 billion a year but we can negotiate numbers here. if the federal government were to provide that money the teachers would be rehired and we would be out of the depression. >> in terms of the republican counterargument on this. i have been calling this republican school politics. romney arguing against the idea of public sector ploy employment that crowds out private sector employment but there is a strange argument, to my mind, made by his campaign that we need fewer teachers. that w...

Layoffs, but mostly, its a question of making sure that they have the money, and if we had a federal revenue-sharing program, which we did have at the beginning of the recovery act, which president obama opposed last fall, then you can do that. so if we had, ive been saying, $300 billion a year, but we can negotiate numbers here, if the federal government were to provide that money, then those schoolteachers would be rehired with and we would be out of this depression. >> in terms of the republi...

Schoolteachers would be rehired with and we would be out of this depression. >> in terms of the republican counterargument on this, ive been sort of calling this wisconsin school republican politics, romney arguing against the idea of public sector employment as something that somehow crowds out private sector employment. but theres also been a strange argument, at least strange to my mind, made by his campaign that we actually need fewer teachers. that weve got too many teachers right now, arti...

>> thanks to union rules along the docks, long shoremen in the new york city area. combine the union rules with mob connections and youve got an exclusive in "the new york post" this morning that makes you go wow, why cant i have one of those jobs where im getting paid despite not actually being at work. >> so does the mob still rule? check out these salaries. union long shoremen making over $400,000 salaries but a lot of that, folks, is in this overtime and what the guys were just alluding to i...

You up. four new york city schoolteachers are making a combined total of $365,000 a year but not even in the classroom. all of them currently doing administrative work after being banned from teaching because of inappropriate touching or comments made to students. in alan rosenfelds case, the department of education couldnt come up with enough evidence to fire him. hes been answering phones and handling paperwork for 10 years and still bringing home his $100,000 salary plus benefits. to top it o...

soledad. you look gorgeous. >> you like the hair. you satisfy. its all about the hair at the end of the day. >> see you guys. it could be the end of the fen year war. leon panetta says there is a new goal, end come bad and switch the role of u.s. and nato troops from fighting and training. presidential candidates already weighing in. mitt romneys trashing the plan. the chairman of the house armed services committee calls it premature. were going to talk about that? just a second. fir...

Face it, its high unemployment. they can get people cheap. you know. >> get people cheap because-- >> inner working class kid. >> there are a lot of reasons that states, that a company locates to a right to work state because they dont have to worry about union rules, get in the way of doing business, work stoppages, the numbers show you in right to work states over the last decade had faster state growth. population growth and income growthments maybe so, its not as if its firing on all cylinde...

Video. hes suspected in a wave of fire bombings in queens. the suspect caught on camera throwing a molotov cocktail on to the lot of a home thats also used as a hindu temple. police say hes the same guy who firebombed a mosque, a grocery store and another home. go get em! >> new york citys cash strapped mta cut service over the holidays. the good news is it saved on fuel and maintenance costs. the bad news is there were lots of bored drivers like these guys seen on the cover of this mornings ""n...

Video. hes suspected in a wave of fire bombings in queens. the suspect caught on camera throwing a molotov cocktail on to the lot of a home thats also used as a hindu temple. police say hes the same guy who firebombed a mosque, a grocery store and another home. go get em! >> new york citys cash strapped mta cut service over the holidays. the good news is it saved on fuel and maintenance costs. the bad news is there were lots of bored drivers like these guys seen on the cover of this mornings ""n...