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Came more bureaucratic red tape. >> these people say law endless rules strangle them. >> our government adds thousands of new pages of law every year. >> that is on top of the 175,000 pages they passed in prior years. >> this is just what you see here just the federal part, state local government adds more. if you wanted to get state county and city laws you need to render bigger bills. >> lawyer jeff rose helps little guys deal with this red tape. >> this is an agenda for control of its own space. that's why regulators do what they do. >> come on. control for its own sake. they are not makava...

Pass through every day. nearly one in five cruise ship passengers in north america set sail from this port. all that commerce helps support a whole lot of high-paying jobs. not just in miami-dade, but throughout the region. but it also, let's face it, creates some congestion. right now, 16,000 cars and trucks travel to and from port miami every day. and they're stuck going through downtown. those traffic jams are bad for business, whether you're a small business owner south beach or a manufacturer in atlanta trying to get your goods overseas, that congestion wastes time and money. now some sma...

Have to have five legs. did you know that in many don't have enough to pay cops and teachers to pay their street signs. they change all of their street signs in these money tight days. the feds hired a group of college professors to test whether it is easier to read a street sign where all of the letters are in caps or were just the first letter of each word is in caps. this test was one of those infamous ear marks we have heard so much about. after spending a few million of your tax dollars the professors concluded that it was a close call but most folks can see signs easier when only the fir...

Have to have five legs. did you know that in many don't have enough to pay cops and teachers to pay their street signs. they change all of their street signs in these money tight days. the feds hired a group of college professors to test whether it is easier to read a street sign where all of the letters are in caps or were just the first letter of each word is in caps. this test was one of those infamous ear marks we have heard so much about. after spending a few million of your tax dollars the professors concluded that it was a close call but most folks can see signs easier when only the fir...

Is that what you are offering in exchange? >> not as part of the negotiation. what i've said, this budget is 3.6 billion dollars short because of federal stimulus aids, balance that budget, we need to have these tools. in doing so, we could save 300 million dollars, to pay government employees alone, equivalent of having to lay-off 5 1/2 thousand employs. i'm not laying off or doing furloughs. things that have been done in the past would not be done. but these people will no longer have union dues automatically docked. that's a five, six hundred or more savings. there's a lot that i don't thin...