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Choose whether to belong to a unionather than have dues automatically deducted. that brought criticism from president obama. >> i don't think it does anybody any good when the public employees are denigrated. or vilified. or their rights are infringed upon. >> i'm sure the president of the united states knows that the federal employees on average pay 28% of the health insurance premiums which is about double what i'm asking in the state and local employees of wisconsin. >> walker also noted that federal workers have no bargaining rights at all. >> state public employee unions fiercely resisted...

Benefits faces a recall over that and move to let workers choose whether to belong to a unionather than have dues automatically deducted. that brought criticism from president obama. >> i don't think it does anybody any good when the public employees are denigrated. or vilified. or their rights are infringed upon. >> i'm sure the president of the united states knows that the federal employees on average pay 28% of the health insurance premiums which is about double what i'm asking in the state and local employees of wisconsin. >> walker also noted that federal workers have no bargaining rights...

>> has no business and no obligation having to pay for wall street's bad bets. that's their bad bets and they can eat them. >> well, congresswoman, yes, we're not so sure. different political goal but both movements are taking full advantage of our precious right of free speech. what we don't know is whether the protesters from the left are going to rival the tea party. >> only pakistan can save pakistan. only afghanistan can save afghanistan. and right now, we should focus on america saving america. >> here's the question. is borrowing a page from ron paul huntsman's path to popular...

Choice. why is this so necessary? >> for us, we're broke, just like nearly have state across the country. >> reporter: just as republicans prepared to pass the bill, key democrats left the state to stall the vote. capitol police were looking for them. >> we hope that we are in a place that we'd be hard for them to find. >> reporter: what really upset state workers is a budget that strips away nearly all of their union bargaining rights over health care, pension and work rules. any wage increase beyond cost of living would require a state referendum. they blame the governor. do you think he's t...

Bureaucracy, something small businesses don't need to contend with. it was buried in the fine principle. when it passed, speaker pill lows said when it passes we'll -- speaker pelosi said when it passes we'll see what is this it. that provision the democrats reluctant initially to come onboard agreed that needed to be taken out. >> greta: another thing i think the american people should be disturbed about. republicans can't be blamed for this. senator claire mccaskill, voted for the health care, as a democrat. last august there was a state referendum in missouri, 71% of the vote said they did ...