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10 days of fighting going back and forth between the rebel city of ajdabiya all the way to qaddafi s home town of sirte. for 7 to 10 days we have seve constant fighting and neither side able to get an upper hand or dig in and hold any ground. the pro qaddafi forces are able to attack and repel the libyan rebels and the rebels advance with the help of nato and u.s. no-fly zone and airstrike cover. so, there is a stalemate settling in and appears the offer, conditional cease-fire offer, comes at a time when both sides are recognizing neither will get the upper hand here, now, of course we have heard nothing from the qaddafi government here about whether or not they would be open to a cease-fire, but we do know there were conversations for several days now, and that are ongoing between western allies and the coalition and qaddafi s ....
Gregg: on the heels of better jobless numbers we got a couple hours ago, let s look at the dow jones industrials industrial average. we ve actually been watching this closely. why? because look at the number there. it is now above the high which was 12,394, for the year 2011, we re at 12,400 and change and by the way, it turns out to be the best first quarter in 13 years. for the dow. so, we re paying attention, martha? martha: we like it. we ll take it. any day of the week. let s talk about the economy for a moment, in fact the ceo of the world s largest retailer, has a very important warning for all of us, for u.s. consumers, he says serious inflation is on the hief horizon and will have impact on basic necessities like food and clothing. eric bolling, the host of follow the money on fox business network joins me to talk about this. when the ceo of walmart is ....
Officers. they don t work hard? please! firefighters? teachers? come on! gregg: nobody ever said they don t work hard, and we admire and respect our firefighters and police officers. we admire but it doesn t sound that way. gregg: this is about sound financial budgets. and something had to give. and public workers are giving in this respect. the governor is the person that negotiates contracts. if governor kasich doesn t feel that he can negotiate with the state employee unions because he s too weak to stand up to the big, bad union negotiators, there s something wrong and people should replace the governor. gregg: representative armond budish, thank you for joining us today. thank you for having me. martha: a lot of tension on that issue. meantime we are open for business, that is homeland security secretary janet napolitano as she tries to assure the country that she believes that our southwest border is indeed secure. ....
White house will tell you, saved jobs but didn t necessarily by anybody s measure create jobs and that is what the american people are looking for. gregg: we ve lost 8 million jobs since the president took office and remember, he promised, pass the stimulus, which, you know, by some accounts is a trillion dollars worth, pass that and it will not get above 8% and went almost to 10% and that is failed promise and a rasmussen poll found only 26% see government as the solution to chronic unemployment. that, too, is not a good critique of the president s stimulus plan is it? because that is what it was about. i don t read it quite that way. what people say is they are lacking to private industry and want the government and want the obama administration specifically to do more to support private industry when it comes to allowing them to create jobs. they want government to get out of the way in that instance. and, maybe that is the way that you could interpret that as a critique of the o ....
What little if anything they put into pensions and health benefits, they are overcompensated and i had our brain room check that, those numbers are accurate. i ll check that out. gregg: please do. the government has the ability collective bargaining is bargaining. it s negotiation, one side, the other, they come together, they talk, they can reach an agreement. gregg: but it s not a right. it is a legislated privilege. and it can be granted and it can be taken away, and your legislature has taken it away in some part. i would argue that it is a right. and if you go back to the days of the sweat shops when people were forced to work in conditions that are just inhumane, it was only because of the unions that people started to get rights in the way they are treated in their gregg: well, the federal courts do not view it as a right. and i point your attention ....