welcome back. as you have seen, cities with big dreamsnd as you have seen cities about big dreams and big bills come here to wall street with the cash to finance them. goore towns are going broke not by issuing bonds but by issuing mrom misspromises the pc employee union. that story has a new york angle, too. lou dobbs explains. it is a good natured sort of battle. it was in 1935 president franklin roosevelt made it easier for workers in the private sector to create unions. when he signed the wagner act he had ties between organized labor and the democratic party. it doesn t include enthusiasm for ticketing. fdr didn t think public sectors made any sense. collective bargaining is
different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. she writes extensively on the problems. it s not like you are a boss of ford. they don t want to pay the union members too much because it comes out of their own prophets. that s not true of government. furthermore fdr wrote public employees like police, firefighters and teachers would be unthinkable and intolerable. it was within a couple decades as democratic airs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth of risk. the eureka moment happened right here in new york city. in 1958 democratic mayor robert wagner who s u.s. senator iron he cancally authored the wagner act granted municipal workers. three years later the public unions organized to reelect him.
zeus! to compare himself to mere mortals, especially with the handy calf. fdr didn t have that many birdies. kimberly: that was a joke. go ahead. dana: i think when you are a sitting president asked to compare yourselves to otherred and give yourself a grade there is only one answer. history will have to decide and i ll focus on one what i m doing. he is talking about the legislative accomplishments but he is not running on his record with the signature achievement being his healthcare reform plan. which would be overturned in march. in which case he wouldn t be the most accomplished legislative president of all time. kimberly: good point. eric? eric: he said he is fourth best of all time, so he would be better than george washington, thomas jefferson, harry truman, ronald reagan kimberly: and george bush. eric: why adult he already have a carve-out on
take a listen. michele bachmann? she doesn t like muslims. she hates muslims. she wants to go get them. that s no good. and rick santorum, i never see him talk much. it seems like to him, gay people, my god, the end of the world. you can talk about anything else. gay people and muslims. kimberly: whoa! somebody went off the reservation there. what do you make of this? eric: i can t believe he was on national television saying that michele bachmann and rick santorum hate muslims. ron paul, don t be a hypocrite. aren t you the one who says let s pull out of the middle east to leave israel on their own? if anyone hates anyone, it could be said that your ideology proves that you hate jews. eric: i think ron paul got in bob: he is a doctor. he got in his own medicine bag before that show. a reason for this politically that make sense. there will be a conservative
take a listen. michele bachmann? she doesn t like muslims. she hates muslims. she wants to go get them. that s no good. and rick santorum, i never see him talk much. it seems like to him, gay people, my god, the end of the world. you can talk about anything else. gay people and muslims. kimberly: whoa! somebody went off the reservation there. what do you make of this? eric: i can t believe he was on national television saying that michele bachmann and rick santorum hate muslims. ron paul, don t be a hypocrite. aren t you the one who says let s pull out of the middle east to leave israel on their own? if anyone hates anyone, it could be said that your ideology proves that you hate jews. eric: i think ron paul got in bob: he is a doctor. he got in his own medicine bag before that show. a reason for this politically that make sense. there will be a conservative