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Appealing the workers union law there. the republican governor, scott walker, pressed for the sweeping changes to union rules to try to eliminate the state's budget deficit. it prompted massive protests at the state's capitol in dispb efforts to recall walker. most public employees have to pay more for benefits and eliminated bargaining rights. governor walker handily won the recall. >> brand-new demonstrations in new york city. the organizers say the three-day event will be more laid-back than the last year occupy wall street. tomorrow, there is a planned sit-down protest in the financial dis...

Saying $300 billion a year but we can negotiate numbers here. if the federal government were to provide that money the teachers would be rehired and we would be out of the depression. >> in terms of the republican counterargument on this. i have been calling this republican school politics. romney arguing against the idea of public sector ploy employment that crowds out private sector employment but there is a strange argument, to my mind, made by his campaign that we need fewer teachers. that we have teachers, we have too many teachers artificially supported by union rules or something and we...

Layoffs, but mostly, it's a question of making sure that they have the money, and if we had a federal revenue-sharing program, which we did have at the beginning of the recovery act, which president obama opposed last fall, then you can do that. so if we had, i've been saying, $300 billion a year, but we can negotiate numbers here, if the federal government were to provide that money, then those schoolteachers would be rehired with and we would be out of this depression. >> in terms of the republican counterargument on this, i've been sort of calling this wisconsin school republican politics, ...

Schoolteachers would be rehired with and we would be out of this depression. >> in terms of the republican counterargument on this, i've been sort of calling this wisconsin school republican politics, romney arguing against the idea of public sector employment as something that somehow crowds out private sector employment. but there's also been a strange argument, at least strange to my mind, made by his campaign that we actually need fewer teachers. that we've got too many teachers right now, artificially supported, i guess, by union rules or something, and we ought to have fewer public secto...

>> thanks to union rules along the docks, long shoremen in the new york city area. combine the union rules with mob connections and you've got an exclusive in "the new york post" this morning that makes you go wow, why can't i have one of those jobs where i'm getting paid despite not actually being at work. >> so does the mob still rule? check out these salaries. union long shoremen making over $400,000 salaries but a lot of that, folks, is in this overtime and what the guys were just alluding to is actually working more than 24 hours a day. first of all, there are no more than 24 hours a day ...