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Seems like more of an assault on unions. and i think it's very important for us to understand that public employee, they are our neighbors. they are our friends. >> bill: if state workers will not give back some of their benefits, there is no solution to the fiscal crisis anywhere. you can't raise taxes anymore. the folks are tapped out. live on long island elderly people are selling their homes because they can't sell the high tax rate. perhaps over a few years that way they could look for other jobs in the private sector if they don't believe they are being compensated fairly in the public a...

Do you use? >> pantene. >> sean: what do you use? >> i use a bar of soap. >> sean: i still use prell. oakland police chief making dire claims about what its force will and will not respond to if lay-offs go off as planned. they have a partial list,burg , theft, embezzle. ground theft, false identification police officer, required register as sex or arson offender. >> the first question you have to ask about oakland is will anybody notice. >> at least not detroit. >> second thing is this is about the pension payments. they are trying to get give-backs from the police department so they don't ha...

>> pantene. >> sean: what do you use? >> i use a bar of soap. >> sean: i still use prell. oakland police chief making dire claims about what its force will and will not respond to if lay-offs go off as planned. they have a partial list,burg , theft, embezzle. ground theft, false identification police officer, required register as sex or arson offender. >> the first question you have to ask about oakland is will anybody notice. >> at least not detroit. >> second thing is this is about the pension payments. they are trying to get give-backs from the police department so they don't have outlandis...

They pay for. everything republicans wanted in terms of fiscal concessions from people that work for the state, they got them. public employees conceded. they gave republicans everything they asked for in terms of paid give backs, pension, healthcare, everything with budget impact, the public employees gave up right away, right at the outset. if it was really about the budget, then those concessions would have sort of solved the problem. would have been enough. but it is not about the budget. and so instead we have had 22 days of protests over what? over the stuff that's in the e-mails, the st...

Capital square. my colleagues and i went home for the past three days to our own districts and can i tell you i went to the barber shop i went out to dinner with my wife and grocery store. people get it outraged they are not in session because they have gone to illinois. they are outraged at the idea we are not having this discussion. at the end of the day they truly realize this is a very modest proposal. asking workers to pay half of their pension and literally only half of the national average for their health insurance is not something that is out of step with reality. in fact, it's what t...