i think some people don t have health insurance that can take care of their own needs. he said that exchange left a lasting impression on one bush family. the biggest backlash i got from questioning a candidate on meet the press was with george h.w. bush. i never had a problem with him but barbara bush never forgave me for embarrassing her husband that way. known as dean of the washington press corps and a news man who covered every major story for the last five decades, broder s political analysis was always on the money. like this observation he offered weeks before president bush ordered the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. i think that s the beginning of his troubles and our nation s troubles not the end. if we win the military victory as everybody seems to assume that we can do quite readily, then we still find ourselves responsible for constructing a
out of 250 million people? ah-ha. i think some people don t have health insurance that can take care of their own needs. he said that exchange left a lasting impression on one bush family. the biggest backlash i got from questioning a candidate on meet the press was with george h.w. bush. i never had a problem with him but barbara bush never forgave me for embarrassing her husband that way. known as dean of the washington press corps and a news man who covered every major story for the last five decades, broder s political analysis was always on the money. like this observation he offered weeks before president bush ordered the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. i think that s the beginning of his troubles and our nation s troubles not the end. if we win the military victory as everybody seems to assume that we can do quite readily, then we still find ourselves
i have no way of knowing. you i think the taxpayers of wisconsin won. it seems to me that he committed to do the sorts of things he s trying to do and we ought to agree or disagree with people, we ought to respect them when they do try to live up to their words. but he didn t campaign on the collective bargaining aspect of this. he campaigned to asking public employees to contribute more. do you think that was a mistake? i don t know, but i would say from our own experience, that if have a serious fiscal problem, which we did six years ago and don t today. that having the flexibility to manage government, not only to save money, but to serve people better, i could illustrate this in 100 ways. is pretty important. and before we discontinued government union, collective bargaining in indiana, you really couldn t make any of the changes. do you not believe in collective bargaining? i do believe in collective bargaining, in the private sector. but only within you don t think
because obviously you were there when, when the debt also went up, when the deficit went up and it was because among other things, those two things were not paid for then. well, we ll never know, if you had done that and you hurt the economy, you would have had less revenue than you expected, maybe less than you had, anyway. you know, by 2007, the debt set was tiny, it was well under 2% of gdp. so we would love, wouldn t we, to be back to that level now. but you re an executive now. you believe in paying pore things, if you re going to offer something, you should pay for it. yeah. don t offer what you can t pay for. that would be a good principle to return to. for the prescription drug benefit probably shouldn t have been offered without paying for? well it s cost a whole lot less than anybody thought. but it s part, there s no question, it s part of the biggest problem we face, which isn t even these massive annual deficits we re running. it s the unaffordable promises we ha
and you believed if you hadn t made a case to voters, about right to work legislation, that you shouldn t be trying to do it once you re in office and in the legislative session. governor walker, you think loosed the political fight here? i have no way of knowing. you i think the taxpayers of wisconsin won. it seems to me that he committed to do the sorts of things he s trying to do and we ought to agree or disagree with people, we ought to respect them when they do try to live up to their words. but he didn t campaign on the collective bargaining aspect of this. he campaigned to asking public employees to contribute more. do you think that was a mistake? i don t know, but i would say from our own experience, that if have a serious fiscal problem, which we did six years ago and don t today. that having the flexibility to manage government, not only to save money, but to serve people better, i could illustrate this in 100 ways. is pretty important. and before we discontinued gover