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The fact that you have teachers who weren't teaching. you had the capitol is open when it should be closed. there are so many expenses in terms of law enforcement, troopers looking for lawmakers on the lamb. i mean this is just, you know, going crazy in terms of the expense to the taxpayers. and i hope at some point people really look at what the whole shenanigan has cost the people of wisconsin. how do you think this whole thing is going to play out in the 2012 election? >> i think this will boomer rang as far as the liberals are concerned because people look at this and see that people have ...

Who weren't teaching. you had the capitol is open when it should be closed. there are so many expenses in terms of law enforcement, troopers looking for lawmakers on the lamb. i mean this is just, you know, going crazy in terms of the expense to the taxpayers. and i hope at some point people really look at what the whole shenanigan has cost the people of wisconsin. how do you think this whole thing is going to play out in the 2012 election? >> i think this will boomer rang as far as the liberals are concerned because people look at this and see that people have left their posts of duty for thr...

The fact that you have teachers who weren't teaching. you had the capitol is open when it should be closed. there are so many expenses in terms of law enforcement, troopers looking for lawmakers on the lamb. i mean this is just, you know, going crazy in terms of the expense to the taxpayers. and i hope at some point people really look at what the whole shenanigan has cost the people of wisconsin. how do you think this whole thing is going to play out in the 2012 election? >> i think this will boomer rang as far as the liberals are concerned because people look at this and see that people have ...

Of municipal unions. and that is in a sense destroying the unions themselves. >> i think that is without debate. last friday, most of us around the table, when this first broke were tough on the unions where teachers had walked out of schools, weren't teaching the kids nil. we saw the hateful signs. we all said this union has to give. the next day, on saturday, the union did give, they gave con sessions on their pensions, i think 5.8% on pensions. they're willing to pay over 12% on health care. the budgetary side of this debate in wisconsin is over. there's no doubt about it. it is now an ideo...

Years. for the last year and a half what djhave you been doing? >> sitting in a rubber room. >> what did you do today. >> packed up stuff. played some spades. left. >> reporter: your salary? >> $85,000. >> reporter: together these teachers earned an estimated $30 million a year to simply show up and sit in a room for eight hours according to the city's education department. some of them claim they don't know what they're charged with. >> i don't deserve to be treated like this. >> reporter: he says he shouldn't be there but should be back in the classroom teaching his students. >> this should ...