grappling with how to deal with these monstrous budget deficits. no easy answers no matter how you look at it. that s true. we will definitely follow the story and see what happens with the vote today. as jason just mentioned, wisconsin isn t the only state with big budget problems. we were talking about california. that s about $5 billion through k through 12 education. they re at risk unless there s an extension of tax rates, and the so-called dooms day budget that l.a. s board of education approved, crowding classrooms with more students, and universities would look at fee increases up to 10%, and kids younger than 35 would be banned from kindergarten. a board member does tell the l.a. times quote we don t want to do any of the things on there. we will follow that story. and more places smarting from deep budget cuts. illinois looking at a $13 billion shortfall, and a new budget calls for $8..
eight million jobs lost in the private sector since 2008 and there s 600,000 jobs growing in the public sector. public sector employees make twice as much as private sector employees. it s very hard to walk away from what is your base. in health care, you couldn t get any tort reform. if you were a union member, your cadillac health plan would be protected. if were a nonunion member, it wasn t and i was a mayor and i can tell you that the public employee union owns city hall. and so if you see and illinois right now, the big, big budget problems and what are they proposing, raising taxes. mark dayton in minnesota, new democratic governor proposing raising taxes. if you don t have the ability to say we re going to cut back on spending. we re going to put a hold on public employee benefits and salaries, if you can t do that, independent voters are walking away and that s something that doug and i actually agree on. what about president obama here? it seemed like during the election cyc
weeks, a very, very tight battle. and, this is the state where, as you said, unemployment is double digits and there s a budge problem of $8 billion and you have a classic situation and and obama backed democrat with spending problems in his state and big budget problems and former bush administration official, and, congressman, battling it out for the u.s. senate. republicans need 10 to pick up the majority and are knocking on the door all over the place. martha: it is interesting how people look back at the bush administration and what their feeling is about it now and how it might reflect on rob portman. tea party, of course, carl, has been an element in a number of these primaries already, any element there, for portman, are they supporting him. reporter: sure, portman court the tea party movement, but, it has not been sort of one of these billboard relationships, where the tea party movement has been eager to come out and support him. and, he wasn t just the budget director in t
for the first time now, since we have been having these big budget problems, the senat budget. here s the problem. we don t have a president who is interested in passing this budget. the agreement i mentioned with the military that s what we call discretionary spending. all of these programs we have talked about we have passed now five years in a row a balanced budget plan to do. this you have to have a president who is willing to sign it we have are not had that. are you telling me a bulk of this waste would p@&c @&c@ disappear. and forcing government agencies to prioritize by holding accountable and not just rubber stamping their budget requests so they get more every year that brings budget discipline you need. when i see what goes on defense department i am!?j/u thinking who is okaying these cost overruns? who are the bureaucrat who says okay to this? we don t even know. that s why we terminated this program. i hope there are other programs. immigration@o reform not going t