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President james hoffa did send a letter to congress warning that the law would destroy the 40-hour workweek. but in recent weeks, unions have remained silent. i want to bring in lee saunders, president of the american federation of state, county and municipal employees. always good to see you, lee. good morning. >> good morning. >> where do you stand on obama care? >> we support obama care 100%. we know there will be some kinks that have to be worked out but you have to expect that. you had kinking in the social security program, you had kinks in the medicare program, so it's up to the concern...

Sign of i guess solidarity against the government. the effects of not having health care can be catastrophic. >> freedom works should be paying for the millions who will not have health care when they need it. but it is -- freedom works is not that far off from the tea party caucus in the congress. this is governing by sabotage. savage sabotage and i think that is what the sort of political equivalent of the temper tantrum people are doing. this is not the way congress is supposed to work. now we've said that a million times over these last few years but that's what we're seeing. it's also, i ...

Luckily, the voters in mcconnell's home state of kentucky are not buying it. 51% support the harken-begich plan to increase social security benefits to adjust for inflation. >> that's a retirement. people paid into it. and they deserve to be paid back the money they put into it that ensures they have longevity in the social security program. >> every since we passed social security, wall street has been trying to get its hands on this money. no mistake about it. >> republicans want us to sacrifice our future for a grand bargain to fix the budget, but social security is not for sale. when presi...

One of them is this. >> our changing demographics put a strain on our social security system. more young workers paying into the social security him in will ease that. >> we have this huge amount of money that is going to be coming into the social security program and coming into the medicare program, which candidly helps people in this nation because it makes those programs more solvent. >> neil: it sounds good on paper. right? until you actually take a pencil to paper and do the math. does that hold water? a report by the, a wear for social security came out after the senate vote on immigrat...

That the social security tax on your paycheck go directly and exclusively to paying social security benefits. the second is that the benefit paid to a worker is based on what the worker has paid into the system. franklin roosevelt said in a private meeting, we put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. with those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. franklin roosevelt thought that the only thing that gave you a right, a political right...