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How about right to work? thousands of people are expected to converge on the mischigan state capitol in lansing as part of a sfwlooempts going to be interesting. steve. >> are we going to be serious? >> am i asking you about pot or gl growing the economy. growing weed or the economy. >> republican lawmakers are trying to push through this right to work. >> this is interesting actually. michigan is a heavily unionized state so why would it be going right to work. there's enormous downward pressure on wages on american companies around the world that can make things cheaper elsewhere than here a...

>> the stupidist thing i've seen. >> actually pickups are not selling well. >> apparently that is. >> this one is selling well. >> why are they even making it, steve? >> it's america. >> like capitalism and let's not pay people either. we need to find our core a little bit. our core is we're really stupid idiots that eat too much and drive cars that get 11 miles per gallon of gas. don't care how much it costs. >> they're great. >> what's it like? >> it rides like a cadillac but it can go through dunes. it's fantastic. >> that's great. >> you said you had 150. >> no. a friend of mine has one. >...

Interrupted you? >> a pattern. >> sorry. i'm sorry. >> we need to have our even space. >> you talk, i talk. >> okay. >> can i talk? >> yes. >> why is it, they're like liberal, tobacco, big bad tobacco, and yet they celebrate that you kcan live long now in states. you can smoke pot, smoking pot is great, liberation, yeah yeah yeah, baby. >> doesn't kill you. >> but cigarette smoking is bad. >> it doesn't kill you. >> pot doesn't kill you. >> so pot's good for you, steve? >> it is good for you. >> yes. you only smoke it for like -- >> you just take it -- >> poor willie, when he was 15, he was cl...

And across the country, if you did more to get high skilled immigrants into town, you could not only have an economic recovery but an economic boom. there's a lot of agreement off the record on this, but that politicians on both sides are scared to go out there and be the first to say, hey, let's do these big things that could have an appreciable effect on the economy. >> steve, do you agree with that assessment? what are the big things that need to be done? >> i totally agree. the thing that's depressing about the fiscal cliff plan, we will change the tax code, change this, a tax on gas to he...

>> that cookbook won't stay open, takes up counter space and a mess. introdu introducing the way to keep the recipe with you. >> good morning. it's tuesday, december 11th. welcome to "morning joe." you like that, barnicle? >> i do. >> all right. wake up now. with us on set we have msnbc contributor, mick barnicle, former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst. steve brattner. >> he came with charts. willie, do you have a chart? >> no. >> he's disturbed. i don't know if you heard this. has he done this to you? >> we have two obesity stories we have to get to. we're not going to br...