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Right now the idea of improving shareholder value sometimes means laying more people off because the lower your payroll costs are, the better your stock looks. so the interests are sometimes countervailing. you have people who work for corporations right now that have the weakest representation in terms of unions. we've gut the union movement. you have now whole regions stealing corporations by saying, we're the nonunion region. you can come down here and not have to worry about union bargaining. come south. so it's really a terrible time at this point to be a worker relative to a corporation....

It's going to destroy the private health insurance system. you have hundreds of millions of people that have private health insurance had a is jeopardized by obama care. so when it collapses, i don't want it to destroy the health insurance we have now. and listen, candy, if one of your viewers doesn't trust me because i'm a politician which actually makes sense. because i'm a republican, maybe they would trust james hoffa sh the president of the teamsters. he said in writing that obama care right now is destroying the health care of millions of working men and women. he used the word destroyin...

Is that we had this strange historical contingency arrive, particularly from world war ii and in the '80s has been unraveling ever since, the provision of the things that in other industrialized democracies, the model in which you have a union bargaining with a big capitalist firm and you come to this internal social contract for the employees. right? we work for you and get things like health care and retirement and security and other things. now this relationship of employment is coming tomorrow a start. one of the things that you can do is go to the model that it is a provision of the state...

Standards for civil i can't believe police officers at andrews air force base. the american federation of government employees objected because it said it was not consulted by the defense department. the new plan requires 19 pushups in two minutes, two fewer than previous 21 pushup requirement and running a mile and a half in 17 and a half minutes. the air force says it is department wide and not subject to union bargaining. >> all right, so it cost to set up a temporary sign -- to set up a temporary signup center? there is a lot of prepositions in that. the state of louisiana spent $4 million...

Apart from just drawing the contrast with president obama, also needed to -- also needed to sort of draw a line and explain to people why what his vision for the presidency would be. >> and then you got scott walker. where is scott walker coming down with mitt romney in terms of police, firemen, and the teachers? and the whole question of union bargaining, public union bargaining? >> what's interesting about it is obviously the republicans including the rnc chairman, who is from wisconsin, himself, tried to draw a pretty broad national conclusion about the recall election last week. and i thin...