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Like china and russia where they have a milltarian government to keep people down to pay the people dirt and get away with it. >> eric: do you or do you not have a budget gap this year? >> of course, i do. so does every city across the country. >> eric: what are you going to do about it? >> for five years i've been cutting and i have to go on cutting and do what is right. i've cut my pay and the pay of my top people and i am negotiating with unions. i'm negotiating with the unions and reopen their contract so workers get -- >> eric: to lower wages, right? >> i have no choice. >> eric: you are ...

Mortgages and what not and here comes the revenue and boom. there is the housing bust. and of course here we sit, ç president obama, he comes in and the revenue is dipping down because of what he inherited and what's he do? he spends money to get out of it because every economist on both sides of the aisle says you got to spend money to get out of this problem. so now if you look at this, we have the largest gap between money spent and revenue being brought into the treasury. the largest gap we've had, well, actually my board's not big enough. can you believe that? i actually could take you ...

Pensions. he says the state's budget gap is forcing just everybody to make sacrifices except for him of course. the daily news reports that kasich has owned state owned planes like this one here. let's see, what is there? hold it. a twin engine, a turbo. that's a jet prop, baby. that son of a gun is expensive to run. like 20 trips in the first three months on that? that's spendy. cost to the taxpayers in ohio? $31,400 in 81 days. former democratic governor ted strickland only spent that much after 13 months in office so who's the big spender? kasich's spokesman rob nichols is defending his bos...

I mean going after everything. like scott walker in wisconsin, kasich passed a union busting bill that cuts public employee pensions. he says the state's budget gap is forcing just everybody to make sacrifices except for him of course. the daily news reports that kasich has owned state owned planes like this one here. let's see, what is there? hold it. a twin engine, a turbo. that's a jet prop, baby. that son of a gun is expensive to run. like 20 trips in the first three months on that? that's spendy. cost to theç taxpayers in ohio? $31,400 in 81 days. former democratic governor ted strickla...

Goes back hundred years and listen, the mayor says they can raise taxes, on the casinos. >> right. bill: or could do substantial cuts in city workers' health care and pensions to close the budget gap. >> he wants to do both, raising casino taxes and cutsing backs pensions and benefits to the city workers and they'll need both and the point is if detroit goes into default, falls into the hands of michigan, guess where michigan is? they are broke, bankrupt and we have been sending billions and billions of dollars to the state of michigan, ultimately, with -- ends up in the hands of us, the taxpa...