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To cut social security and your medicaid. when they ask you the american people, you say no, raise taxes on the rich. that's the other way to do it it. do we live in a democracy or don't we? why are politicians ignoring the clear popular will? unfortunately, there's an answer to that. it's because they're representing the rich don ors that got them elected and not you. all right. joining me now is former clinton labor secretary robert reich. he's a professor at uc berkeley. great to have you here, of course. >> hi there. >> i want to ask you, they'll say you can't do this, you can't raise taxe...

In fact, they've agreed to 8% in pay cuts. they got a machine gun, that's what they've gone. they make it sound like taking away bargaining right is the only solution. that's not true. we'll give you a much better solution later in the show. don't believe it's the only answer to hit the middle class. boehner wasn't done yet. >> i think what you see in these states is they're trying to bring some balance to these negotiations. that, and when you look at the pay of public employees today and you look although their retirement benefits, they're way out of line with the many other working american...

Down even more simply, in case they don't get it. sometimes they're a little slow. they asked whether people sided with governor walker or the unions in wisconsin in the collective bargaining dispute. 42% picked the unions and 31% chose governor walker. governor walk for the fail again. look, the verdict is in. we've waited for these polls all this time. they have come in droves and they're clear. we're not for that. we're for sticking up for public union employees, we're sticking up for collective bargaining and saying it clearly as the american people. americans are not on board with balanci...