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Was collectively $121 billion underfunded. leadership and compromise is the only way you can can't highest property taxes in the nation and can't interest arbitration awards for public employees of some of the most powerful public sector unions in america at no greater than a 2% increase. in new jersey, we've done this and more because the executive branch has not sat by and waited for others to go first to suggest solutions to our state's most difficult problems. [applause] being a mayor, being a governor, being a president means leading by taking risk on those important issues of the day. th...

Was collectively $121 billion underfunded. leadership and compromise is the only way you can can't highest property taxes in the nation and can't interest arbitration awards for public employees of some of the most powerful public sector unions in america at no greater than a 2% increase. in new jersey, we've done this and more becausehe executive branch has not sat by and waited for others to go first to suggest solutions to our state's most difficult problems. [applause] being a mayor, being a governor, being a president means leading by taking risk on those important issues of the day. that...

Reform? i'm voting against proceeding with a bill that's fundamentally flawed, ali, that will not address the real causes of what caused the collapse in 2008. for example, two of the main players in the 2008 collapse were freddie mac and fannie mae. >> right. >> this bill does nothing to try to bring fannie mae and freddie mac under control. and the housing boom that we saw was -- was largely fueled by -- by those two entities providing the funding and buying mortgages and whatnot and when the bubble burst, they came collapsing down, and we saw the federal government have to put $121 billion i...

It's funny money. they had no capital to back up their lending. but that did not matter because they also had no risk in the lending. get the lending paid off, they win. and they won big when they did that because they did it with leverage. top manhattan executives alone paid themselves $121 billion in bonuses over the first part of the decade. now, mind you, when the bank loans failed, they knew they were too big to fail. so the rest of us, you and me, would have to bail them out. ignorant electorate, if you will, the patsies who had no idea, and really still don't, understand how badly they ...