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Working days that are lost because of these strikes in france. >> wow. >> a huge number. >> huge number. you saw also the fever line chart started in 2009 with more government workers than unions versus union workers in the private sector. that's under the obama administration. yes. you know, steve is right. you know, france is, you know, we had it in detroit. what we have right now is union workers and the government, can't reorganize the office fourn chur without calling in a union official and unionized audio viz yosual workers in fra. they're working from home and surfing the internet or d...

Communicate effectively. i think a lot of people are in agreement on so many of the issues and never hear from the gop on a more effective, stronger policies. right? hearing that the president is initiating an executive order on paid leave mandates destructive to the economy and jobs, they go along with it but we need eff t effective leadership. >> final word. one word. steve, optimistic or pessimistic? >> optimistic. obama doesn't want a deal. he wants tax rates going up. this is good. >> that was a dozen words. >> all right. we'll take it, though. >> i'm the boss. >> coming up next, unions r...

So this is payback for them. it's that simple. if we want economic growth, you got -- we should be looking towards germany which has reduced the power of the unions. germany's unemployment rate is half that of france's which is strengthened the unions. >> bruce, just coincidental that the lower the private sector unions become in this country the more productive we have been over the past 20 years, say? >> well, i don't know about that. i think that in one area where it has gone up are people that obama worked with and the health care sector. private sector unions have grown in that area and s...

Just one side, the folks against this plan. >> right. an they went against normal processes and someone could then present the alternative side and then instead used a sort of not used often veto power they have. we have the huge bills like the clean water act and the clean air act to give the epa sort of an endless rule to act sort of as god choosing who will flourish and who will fail. this is very bad. i want my kids to have clean water and jobs. >> i'm with bruce. there's a lot of fishing businesses up there affected by it but the epa is overstepping the regulatory powers invading the stat...

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