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Important for them. do you think this is going to be a big problem for the president? is it going to hurt him among your union members? >> i don't think it's a problem for the president. i think it's a problem for the country. and that this president has been leading on how to as a nation get the economy going again and make the economy efficient and green. and so for us it's about educating our members, helping them understand who broke the economy, how the president has been part of the solution, not part of the problem. and getting the 1% in this country to pay their fair share through corp...

Pegging the increases in premiums. and all this has to be approved by congress, of course, and that's going to be where the fight is. a lot of people are saying, look, the military's being cut by forces, their equipment's being cut, and now they're asking the military to make a health care benefit cut at the same time the civilian government work force isn't facing any similar cuts at all. so there's a real question of fairness. jon: yeah. and interesting, the unionized military workers, those who are covered by union plans, they are not asked to pay a hike under this man. >> right. and, of co...

>> what it says is that union plans also may cover low-wage workers. farm workers may be unionized. other people who get relatively low wages. >> experts say less than a month before the mid-term election, there is a political concern. >> democrats will have a hard enough time to get the candidates elected to the house. having a bunch of hamburger jockeys lose their health insurance not way to endear yourself to populous. >> they defend the move making sure a new class of uninsured americans is not created before other options are available. >> this is about implementing a bill correctly. this...

>> what it says is that union plans also may cover low-wage workers. farm workers may be unionized. other people who get relatively low wages. >> experts say less than a month before the mid-term election, there is a political concern. >> democrats will have a hard enough time to get the candidates elected to the house. having a bunch of hamburger jockeys lose their health insurance not way to endear yourself to populous. >> they defend the move making sure a new class of uninsured americans is not created before other options are available. >> this is about implementing a bill correctly. this...

Row, that could be a long time. gregg: how is it possible? >> how is it possible? well, we have very, very generous municipal union plans in this city and we're not the only city with the problem. it is bad enough, that we, the taxpayers, bear the brunt of the unfunded pension liability but when you have situations like this, it is insult to injury and salt on the wounds. here it is, you know, if he is guilty, or anybody who did anything like that, you know, you would think there would be a -- a provision in the contract, to say, i'm sorry. you don't get paid, by contrast, i believe if you wer...