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Out of money and facing tough cuts? >> i think workers and unions are willing to come to the table in a serious way and talk in a constructive way of what we can do together to address our budget problems. but the truth is that unions and working families and the middle class have done a lot of sacrificing in the last couple years, in fact, the last couple decades. we've given up our jobs, our home, our health care. we've seen stagnating economy for a couple decades now. we want to make sure we're talking about some of the folks that got all the gains the last few decades. at the very top, the...

People have the right to form a union if they want one. >> there has definitely been some sympathy that has come the way of the worker, particularly when it comes to attacks on collective bargaining. but there is one thing that keeps coming back where american workers are saying is it fair to have this seniority where people are not judged and hired and fired on their merits? >> well, i think seniority has turned out to be a pretty good system for a lot of people that have job security and so on, and i think all these issues are things that can be discussed at the bargaining table and that's w...

Math. we don't train our kids well enough for this. >> i don't want to bring the bar down. why not train finance? for investing? balancing checkbooks. learning how to keep credit. basic fundamental principles for life skills and money. >> you and i have talked about this. we still know if you are educated, your chance of getting a job is twice as high as everybody else's. >> i'm not against an idea of a standard. i do agree with this. math at every level is a lot easier to understand when it's tied to real world things like po peter talked about. if you're tying math to how much do i need to r...

Republican governors, but a lot of their budget problems do stem from a lot of promise made to workers that haven't been funded. pension, health care, and so forth. not just against the wealthy but against normal taxpayers who face substantial tax increases if cuts are to be avoided. for example, in illinois they doubled taxes. but in illinois, they had a lot of space to do it. wisconsin already has some of the highest taxes in the country. you can't have a millionaire's tax in wisconsin, it won't cover the cost of meeting these obligations and the millionaires will leave. we discovered that i...