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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101222:15:07:00

in the country is reeling from the recession, 46 states facing budget shortfalls, this year, topping the list is california. and it is a whopper in california. staring down a $21 billion budget gap, and now a push to get their fiscal house in order is meeting stiff resistance from unions. william lajeunesse is on the story, live in l.a. good morning. >> reporter: you know, lawmakers made these contracts with unions that were entirely unsustainable. how about a lifetime of free health care, after just five years of work, or, retiring at 60 with 90% of your salary, now as lawmakers try to unwind those deals unions are saying, no. >> it feels like a penalty when you have given your life and career to the university... >> reporter: across california public employees fight to protect their generous union pensions. >> the pension benefits for uc workers for the last 20 years have been 100% funded by taxpayers. the employees have not paid

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101222:16:18:00

kristol, fox news political analyst. you think there is no excuse for these schools not to put rotc on campus, huh bill? >> that's right, there's no reason not to fully recognize rotc. harvard president made a strong statement over the weekend, drew faust, columbia-yale, i hope they do it, i hope they will do it for the country, i hope president obama weighs in. in 2008 during the campaign he said he favored having full recognition of rotc on campuses, he said it at columbia in which it's not recognized, where if students want to serve the country they have to take the subway to do it, columbia doesn't provide facilities, help, recognition. in 2008, even before the repeal he said he favored recognition of rotc. i hope president obama weighs in, he has clout with the liberal college presidents and i hope he does the right thing. jon: columbia is the university that the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101222:21:39:00

focused on. how are we he creating opportunity for everybody so that we celebrate wealth, we celebrate somebody like a steve jobs, who, you know, has created two or three different revolutionary products? we expect that person to be rich and this's a good thing. we want that incentive. that's part of the free market. but we also want to make sure that -- that those of us that have been extraordinarily fortunate, that we are contributing to the larmer american communities so that a whole bunch of other kids coming up are doing well and that means schools that work and infrastructure like roads and airports that function and it means colleges and university as well that teach and aren't restricted to just people that can afford it but are open to anybody with talent and a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101222:23:32:00

workers are 100% funded by taxpayers. the employees have not paid anything toward their pension. >>reporter: in the university of california employees can retire at 60 with full benefits when the university tried to put it up to 65 the union said no deal. >> people have made deals and they will get less pay and better benefits. >>reporter: another problem pension spiking that allows employees to boost the annual retirement from 80,000 to 120,000 by pumping the final year salary. lawmakers tried to reform and the union said no. >> they work hard and cash out holiday and vacation and take extra duty and that goes in the final pay for pension. that's how you get 20 or 30 percent of your salary.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101222:15:08:00

anything toward their pensions. >> reporter: at the university of california, employees can retire at age 60, with full benefits, when the university tried to increase that to age 65, unions said, no deal. >> it is easy to say, i don't have this, and they shouldn't have this but people don't realize people made deals, and people are going to make deals where they are going to get less pay and better benefits and it keeps people at a public institution. >> reporter: another problem, pensions spiking which allows employees to boost their annual retirement from, say, 80 grand to $120,000, by pumping their final year's salary and lawmakers tried to reform the system but the unions said, no. >> they work real hard for one year, cash out their vacation, cash out their holidays, and take extra duties and that all goes into the final pay for pension and that is how you get 20 to 30% of your salary. >> reporter: in san francisco, taxpayers pay 80% of retirees' health care, a ballot proposition would have capped the exposure to 50%, and unions

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101221:23:11:00

if there is any city that gets resources amongst the whole country, it is the capital city. so when you see it there, you know there is a problem. when i was there, there was a big storm, and the driver was driving out out the next day and out in the street, you could see little lay disand men in uniform collecting sticks and bundling them as fast as they could, because of the firewood, because lack of electricity is a huge issue there. >> and another issue that struck home, mr. pritchard, and i don't know, but they took me to the main university, and they took me to an elite high school where they teach foreign languages and the most popular language to learn in the university and in the high schools, and the smartest kids go to them is english. they want to learn english, and i was talking to these 16-year-old, and they were, you know, all of the sudden using american slang, and they are saying, oh, that's pretty cool with an american accent. they really want to get a sense

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101221:22:15:00

it was different to see what was going on. i did not get the impression -- for 60 years or so, people had been predicting the eventual demilz. at some point, the country was going to topple. the communist regime would go down. i saw no indications of that. i saw a lot of poverty, a poor country. harsh economic conditions. lack of electricity. you go to a huge building. may be heat in one room where there's a meeting going on. the rest of the rooms, it's cold. you have to wear your coat you. go to schools or the university. i went to the main university. the students are well kressed but all wearing overcoats and they're all -- it's cold in ther there. you drive outside of pyongyang, we were driving through the country side.

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CBS Evening News With Russ Mitchell-20101220-02:02:00

security. >> reporter: but ratification requiring 67 votings in the senate is far from certain. republican leader mitch mcconnell vowed to oppose it. >> i think if they had taken more time with this, rushing it right before christmas strikes me as trying to jam us. >> reporter: supporters argue there has been plenty of time for deliberation. with 18 hearings since president obama and rush ran president medvedev signed the arms control deal in april. and in his weekly address mr. obama warned against delaying ratification. >> every minute we drag our feet is a minute that we have no inspectors on the ground at those russian nuclear sites. >> reporter: but opponents argue the treaty is flawed. claiming language in the preamble could restrict plans to build a missile defense system in europe. the administration insist missile defense will not be hindered but republican lindsey graham is waiting to hear from russia. >> i want the russians to tell me their ability for strategic missile defense.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101220:16:35:00

frankly didn't have a lot of income, they consistently called the family middle class, is that shocking for a member of the british royal family to go with someone, heaven forbid, middle class? >> you're right, chris. bottom line is royals marry into royals. in the old days they have coming out balls to meet other member of royal families around europe. that doesn't happen now. remember he met this girl at university. her parents were rich enough to send her there. it's not cheap. it's quite expensive to go. really the bottom line is that he has broken away with tradition as such. but she is middle class. she's comfortably off. she's not living under the subway. >> nobody's so worried about that. so i mean, this is supposedly this wedding not just the hottest tick net town but the hottest ticket in the world. the past two royal weddings, american presidents got invited. there's word, rick, that the obamas are going to be left off the list. >> looks like it.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101220:08:17:00

with people having a hard time. >> untitle ix athletic supposed to be sex proportionate. if 50% of students are women 50% of the athletes better be women so they protect themselves by cutting boys' teams. >> last summer the university cut the wrestling program over title ix. >> you no longer have a swim team, one of 10 the school is cutting. >> cal berkeley were national rugby champs last year. this year they are no longer a varsity sport. >> today the university gathered athletes together to announce the news. >> we were all in shock. >> coach clark says, it is all about title ix. >> we have 60 males we ended up demoted out of athletics because of male headcount. >> trying to even out the up in, a team with 60 players is

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