Page 42 - Budget Issue News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Watching him rant about salaries and i said you're missing the whole issue. it is not salaries. in fact, the uniqun people have now said they will accept the governor's requests on pensions and health care. >> they came to that the next day on saturday. >> right. >> and then i said, okay, well, it's not a budget issue anymore. >> the governor won't take yes for an answer. >> that's because the internal union things he wants to do. >> the number one fact of this decade which accounts for our politics, it's the first decade where middle-class incomes declined. everyone forgot about that was it w...

Inside the house and you stand back and just watch them fight each other. that's not what's happening in wisconsin. firefighters were marching with, fighting with, standing on the front line with and we are staying united with all the workers in wisconsin. this is a cheap trick by walker trying to eliminate the ability of those workers to be represented. >> and chris -- >> let's let the governor speak. here's governor scott making a point. here he is today. governor walker saying what the fight's about. >> if i have to choose between the demands of a few union leaders or staying with the hard ...

They can have fairness in the workplace and fairness in compensation. that is what's at stake here. it goes way beyond this budget issue. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget he's setting out to break a union. that's a major move in terms of american history. i believe the president should have weighed in. i think we should all weigh in and say do the right thing for wisconsin's budget but do not destroy decades of work to establish the rights ever workers to speak for themselves. >> david, if i could just add. this is a campaign flyer i have. i don't know if you ...

Compensation. that is what's at stake here. it goes way beyond this budget issue. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget he's setting out to break a union. that's a major move in terms of american history. i believe the president should have weighed in. i think we should all weigh in and say do the right thing for wisconsin's budget but do not destroy decades of work to establish the rights ever workers to speak for themselves. >> david, if i could just add. this is a campaign flyer i have. i don't know if you can see it from the last election cycle where wisconsin ...

That. >> so what does collective bargaining have to do with budget issues? because on friday for us this was a budget issue. >> ask any mayor, what is the cause of fiscal problems? long term people get stuck with contracts. look at the amount of money they have to pay for a retirement benefit for the people who have not worked for the government for years. if you ask an honest, even a democrat, why do the contracts get done this way? it's because of political contributions from labor unions. >> can you not, though, curb the spending and curb the benefits like they're doing in wisconsin without...