the house. no new elected freshmen democrats the governor won decisively. the democrats having lost the argument with the people. the people of wisconsin elected a 60% republican majority in the house. virtually 60% majority in the senate and republican governor. the governor is executing, this seems to be a to democrats, he s doing what he campaigned on. contrast with president obama breaking his word this week is startling. scott walker is doing what he said he would do. this isn t a question whether this is a question of whether government of the people will work. go ahead. greta: how do you know high stakes fight is not going to backfire? apparently the cost if they don t refinance this bond tomorrow it could be a 30 million dollar hit to the state not chump change. and the and you beyonds have conceded on the pension and health care issues.
the house. no new elected freshmen democrats the governor won decisively. the democrats having lost the argument with the people. the people of wisconsin elected a 60% republican majority in the house. virtually 60% majority in the senate and republican governor. the governor is executing, this seems to be a to democrats, he s doing what he campaigned on. contrast with president obama breaking his word this week is startling. scott walker is doing what he said he would do. this isn t a question whether this is a question of whether government of the people will work. go ahead. greta: how do you know high stakes fight is not going to backfire? apparently the cost if they don t refinance this bond tomorrow it could be a 30 million dollar hit to the state not chump change. and the and you beyonds have conceded on the pension and health care issues.
they just want their collective bargaining rights. is it not conceivable that the people of wisconsin think he s being a spoiler and to save the collective bargaining issue for another day maybe even next week for all i know so they don t take the 30 million dollar hit. so under that theory next week if he business it back up the democrats leave the state again. greta: so. well, you can blackmail the government or you can t. greta: if they leave next week, i mean that 30 million dollars for this [ talking over each other ] my advice to the governor would be figure out how to take the 30 million dollars out in a way which is the most painful for the democrats. and say you did this. you decided this. you refused to be adults. you refused to do job. you refused to show up for work. why should anybody he will in the state take the penalty? i think the citizens of those
takeoff the take are reforming teacher tenure. letting parents choose the school to send their child to and ending the seniority-based pay and making it merit pay. those are the issues they want off the table. as people get that, walker is going to win more and more support. greta: this is the way i look at it. i m trying to think how the wisconsin voters should look at it. there s a 30 million dollar issue tomorrow, the bonding they have to do the refinancing, the number i heard is 30 million. if it isn t a vote, who going to get stuck with that 30 million? is the governor going to get blamed or the democrats? are they going to think the governor got what he wanted and the collective bargaining he could have waited for another time. the reason why i see this as important is if the republicans win this round it means wisconsin is probably going to move to the republican come 2012.
bankruptcy. there s a chinese finance minister said this week, america is next. he said america is worse off than europe. gentleman we are looking at a time now where states are saying, cuts. 30 million dollar cuts. 20 million dollar cuts in higher education. i m going to fall back on american exceptionalism on this. i think we are different, unique and better. sean: i m hoping you are right. we we get addicted the way you are talking about the addiction leads to withdrawal. sean: i interviewed santa, worked in macy s for 20 years. santa was fired for jokes that he made to parents. well, i asked them how good they were. and they said oh yes, we ve been good. i said well that s too bad. you know why santa s so happy and jolly all the time, done you? he s so happy and jolly because he knows where all the naughty girls and boys live.