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>> they are bumping up against liberal interest. not enough money for basic services and roads. >> that is the case in san jose, california whose democratic mayor are chuck reid took office in 2007. >> what role did the public sector unions and their contracts really play in your fiscal crisis? >> most of our costs were driven by increasing salaries and pe and those came out of the '90s in the go-go years when we had money. >> the average cost for a police officer and firefighters was $200,000. >> a year. >> what steps did you take to stop the bleeding. >> we cut everybody's pay by 10% startin...

Not enough money for basic services and roads. >> that is the case in san jose, california whose democratic mayor are chuck reid took office in 2007. >> what role did the public sector unions and their contracts really play in your fiscal crisis? >> most of our costs were driven by increasing salaries and pension benefit and those came out of the '90s in the go-go years when we had money. >> the average cost for a police officer and firefighters was $200,000. >> a year. >> what steps did you take to stop the bleeding. >> we cut everybody's pay by 10% starting with me all the way down to it all...

Not enough money for basic services and roads. >> that is the case in san jose, california whose democratic mayor are chuck reid took office in 2007. >> what role did the public sector unions and their contracts really play in your fiscal crisis? >> most of our costs were driven by increasing salaries and pension benefit and those came out of the '90s in the go-go years when we had money. >> the average cost for a police officer and firefighters was $200,000. >> a year. >> what steps did you take to stop the bleeding. >> we cut everybody's pay by 10% starting with me all the way down to it all...

Up against other liberal interests. it is not enough money for basic services and roads. >> that is the case in san jose, california. chuck reed took office in 2007. >> what role did the public sector unions and their contracts really play in the fiscal crisis? >> most were by increasing salaries and pension benefits. those came out of the 90s in the go go years when we had money. >> can you give me an idea of what money we are talking about? >> the average cost of police officer and firefighter was $200,000 a year? >> we cut everybody's pay by 10 percent with me all of the way down. everybody...

>> measure b was a measure to allow voters to decide whether or not they were going to opinion bus services or bring down the cost. voters had to approve first. that's not a slam dunk in a counsel pee that voted for obama since 2008. reid pushed his case hardy mondayizing him. >> one of the sfrat gees was hard in an abandoned city. people have been acusted from irrelevant doors. >> have you heard the story they have been verbally abused and treated with scorn. the facts are difficult and the facts are we cut services over and ore and ore again in order to fund very extensive benefits.