touting is not appearance that anyone should want in the white house because his job was to out source jobs, cut pension programs and devastate the lives of thousands of people. he s demonstrated he has a callous disregard for that as evidence from yesterday as he said he enzo6 firing people. we can take that out of context. the fact is he was referring to selecting particular insurance providers and if one didn t provide a satisfy ri service then he can fire them. he didn t say when i don t like any insurance company, i get rid of them. e said i enjoy firing people.
and american democracy. welcome. what s your argument? your case about why we need to look in the mirror a little more when it comes to who s to blame for what s wrong with u.s. politics? well, basically the argument is that the decisions we see in washington and many of our state capitals reflect decisions that exist with the american public and the american electorate. what s happened over the last several decades is that democrats and republicans have been pulling apart with the public, and this is particularly true of those members of the electorate who are most interested in politics care about it and participate most actively. they re the ones most divided. before i get in the panelists with questions, they re champing at the bit. is there a different between schizophrenia and the partisan division you talk about? a lot of folk are just confused or ignorant of the fact most of the budget, for example, is social security, medicare, medicaid, mostly health care and pension prog
their private sector counterparts. so we have to be very careful when we re dealing with overall compensation. jenna: i was looking to see the last time we looked at federal workers pensions and it was in 2000, where there was an increase in the federal pension programs by 1.5% or so, so you re saying for any of the federal workers now, you don t want to touch that, but any future employee, you d be open to renegotiating how much they contribute to their pension? i think we should take a fresh look at overought federal employee compensation. there may be some areas where you actually want to increase salaries to recruit certain types of people to the federal government. you can also look at the retirement package as part of an overall look. i think that makes sense, a fresh look. what doesn t make sense is to say to folks who have been relying on a particular salary and benefits structure like the guys who got bin laden, you know, sorry, tough luck, we re going to cut your salary ac
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us back in special session any time. and the special session that we were in has just been temporarily recessed. when you come back, what happens? well, we ll go back to fight the biannual budget which the governor introduced. he has decided to cut public education, and he has furthermore taken the lifeblood out of aides to local units of government. the process that is subject to review and we re going to be out there fighting to preserve the wisconsin way. you ve got a budget deficit you got to fix there. where would you cut? well, the budget deficit is made up in large part by republican employees conceding to the governor s request that they contribute more in their health care and in their various health care and pension programs. there are a number of other matters. the budget bill is introduced by