you re in your 30s? i mean, i know you no, no. yes, i m in my 30s. willie, you re in your 30s? yes. i don t expect to get the type of social security and medicare benefits that my parents get. do you guys expect it? no. we know it s not going to happen. you re not going to get social security. that s an easy one. my reaction would be, at least i m going to get it, right? our generation does not expect people mika, you re the samei, right? you do not expect to get the same benefits of i agree. i think we need to make more serious the closer you get to the expectations are so much lower that politicians in washington could get away with this. and if you said right now you don t get medicare or social security until you re 70 years old if you re in your 30s or 40s, you would save trillions of
42 past the hour. look at that beautiful shot of new york city. that is the sun. you need to go outside and stand in it. oh, wow. yeah. anyone who has been in new york for the past couple of weeks should do that. welcome back to morning joe. i need some vitamin d. uh-huh. time now for our mest-read op-eds. is it always this gray in new york? march is the real fool s gold. you think you ve turned the corner. this is really another month of winter in new york. it s a tease. why do you go to willie for weather like that? he doesn t do sports. that s why. it s that or bill. i m like, bill willie doesn t miss it. it s gray every day now. i work nonstop, no i just look outside and it s gray, gray, gray, gray, gray. but it s always gray.
become the central focus of politics right now, in large part because all of the action seems to be happening in states like wisconsin, like indiana and ohio. you look at how isolated the republican party had gotten in the deep south. in part it s because george w. bush, newt gingrich, karl rove. you can go all the way dick army, tom delay. you can go all the way back to south carolina, lee atwater. i mean, it s it s a fire sort of a fiery type of politics. and you wisconsin people don t really get too excitable. that s not bad for the republican party. we re just lovable. i wouldn t say lovable, but if you look at what happened in the midwest in 2010, they really swept through pennsylvania, indiana, iowa, minnesota, wisconsin. a lot more republicans today than there were last year. all right, jim. happy birthday, man. thanks so much. thanks. the bottom line is of this column, willie, other than jim, most people from wisconsin keep
let me say, andrew, i do believe that it s an american concept for any americans to be able to assemble any way they want. and talk. including public unions. i think the problem here, though, is i m not going to blame the public unions for the fact that we ve had spineless politicians for the past generation giving away too much. that s the issue. that s like if i negotiate with msnbc and willie and i often do and they re stupid enough to allow us all the candy canes we want for life, that s their weakness, not ours. but, joe, you have little influence or maybe you should have more influence over who your boss is. right. and when you have influence over who your boss is, who you re negotiating against and they have a short-term interest, it changes the dynamic and that s put us in a place where we have a management problem. but it s it s on both sides of the both sides of the issue. that is a problem when you have public unions specifically
with $200 million to bfigure ou who they re negotiating with. industry does it, too. i guess it s part of the process. it is. but it has gotten really ugly and it s gotten ugly because collective bargaining in the end should come out with a rational outcome and it s clear that we re not getting that rational outcome and that s what we have to figure out. thank you, gentlemen, for doing news today. willie, did you have something? this has only just begun in wisconsin. the budget that comes out today, walker is going to announce $1 billion in education cuts. he can t back down at this point. you know who s in the union now? charlie sheen. damn right. let s try to get him on the phone. i m guessing we probably could. we know he s up. he s always up. fighting over, you know, the interview with him. it s so i mean, remember when we put the reporter who you guys