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Contractors. >> stuart varney, you have more on this? >> you got it right. this new law in california will make sure that infrastructure projects cost more and take longer to build. right now, you've got the national labor relations act which says you've got an infrastructure project funneldey the federal taxpayer, you have to use union scale labor, you have to use union rules, pensions and benefits, everything that goes with a unionized project. that raises the costs. >> it's a blue state. it's an homage to the unions. >> here's what happened. san diego wanted to drop out of this. they wanted...

>> and now it's time to talk about jobs. >> all right. let talk about jobs. here's one, neil bowlen's job with the faa new on furlough. >> i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we're reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that's barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we're incredibly disappointed. >> he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day's work. here's why they failed to. it's a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running...

might be losing their paychecks. that's because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. that's 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done with that, all they could talk about was jobs and how are going to be focused on creating jobs. >> t...

News is they fired the top guy. but one hour of rest will not change anything. every time this comes up and an ininvestigative reporter finds this at an faa center it is swept under the carpet but i think this time around the faa administrator, will not let it get under the carpet. >> eric: they talk about union rules and, let me walk people through the situation, the 2-2-1 schedule, you do two day shifts and two evening shifts and one overnight shift and come in monday at 3:00 and stop at 11:00 and next days, come in at 2:00 and stop at 10:00 p.m. and you have a nine hour shift and come back ...

Thanks for joining us. let's talk about those union rules and the conflict over the budget and union jobs in indiana. how is this going to be resolved? >> peacefully and successfully, andrea. we don't have a budget problem out here. we've been in the black throughout the recession. we did it by keeping spending over the last six years, about a third the rate of inflation. and we will pass or well on our way to passing another balanced budget with ample rainy day reserves in case the economy turns down. again, we did all of this without a tax increase. almost the only state to do so. so any deb...