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Today. he was paying himself a million and a half dollars a year but his lawyer says he committed no crimes. and a school in new orleans is infested with hundreds of bats. one even landed on an eighth grader's head. exterminators have been called in but they can't kill the bats. you ask why? because they are considered to be endangered species. they have to be captured and then released. >> oh, boy! >> kids, grab a bat and then we can kill them. that's basically the message. we told you about this story. doctors notes being handed out to teachers protesting in madison, wisconsin so they don't ...

Budget is money that we send to local school districts, money we send to local communities and those things are also certainly part of the problem. part of the solution. martha: let me ask you, is it mostly a teacher sort of concentrated effort, we have seen the teachers out in force in wisconsin and many skipping school to be there and is that the focus of what is going on in ohio as well? >> well, i wouldn't say it is teachers, i would say across the public workforce and what we are trying to do is bring the public sector benefits and pay structure in line with the pa s taxpayer expectations...

You may be eligible to pay $10 a month with the onglyza value card program. in wisconsin thousands of teachers have joined the protests at the state capitol over the governor's proposal to cut their pensions, their benefits, and collective bargaining rights. but some parents have complained after school districts have been forced to cancel classes for nearly a week now. the big question, should all these teachers be skipping school? let's bring back our company, pat buchanan and karen hunter. karen, what do you think? >> i love teachers. but no. they should go to school and teach. you know, ...

The government started spending more than they were taking in. more than the revenues starting in 2003. >> look at the graph from left to right. this is from 1970, i believe, it almost got to the surplus under president nixon and then got the surplus under clinton in the year 2000 and at the very end of that, you see those two lines split much that's the ugliness we're facing now. the revenues went down with the recession. the spending went up so far and now they're talking about spending more? when we have this horrible deficit. it's irresponsible. >> all right. so you're going to be talking ...

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