care debate with emergency rooms and so forth. in other words, you didn t put any money in, you re getting the higher wage and the benefits the guys who paid the money are receiving, you re still getting them, but you didn t pay for them. it s a free rider system. i mean, there are closed shops, there are open shops, right? that decision can be made there, correct? yeah. i think. if i m a union guy or woman, i d say, okay, well, let s negotiate for union members. yeah. and union members will be put on a different put in a different category, and we ll give them training, higher skills, and they get the pay raise and the nonunion people don t get the pay raise. i think your question s legitimate if especially if the unions aren t being effective in making the pay raises good, in making the workplace better. and i think that s a very good question today in terms of how well people are being paid. and i think, by the way,
and you and i and everybody else ends up picking up for them. i don t think having a free rider system in health is any more appropriate than having a free rider system in any other part of our society. let me ask you about the u.s. role in the world. we re still digesting the intelligence that s coming out of the raid in pakistan that killed osama bin laden. you said in february, an honest assessment on 9/11 this year, ten years after the attack, would have to lead to the conclusion that we are simply and slowly losing the war. do you still feel we re losing the war against terror? absolutely. absolutely. and i think the thing look at what we ve learned about bin laden. we ve learned that for the 9 1/2 years, a country, pakistan, to which we have given $20 billion, was apparently hiding him? now, does any serious person believe that the pakistani government had no idea bin laden was sitting there? does anybody and notice, by the way, what the intelligence chief has apologized
better car or go on vacation, and you and i and everybody else ends up picking up for them. i don t think having a free rider system in health is any more appropriate than having a free rider system in any other part of our society. let me ask you about the u.s. role in the world. we re still digesting the intelligence that s coming out of the raid in pakistan that killed osama bin laden. you said in february, an honest assessment on 9/11 this year, ten years after the attack, would have to lead to the conclusion that we are simply and slowly losing the war. do you still feel we re losing the war against terror? absolutely. absolutely. and i think the thing look at what we ve learned about bin laden. we ve learned that for the 9 1/2 years, a country, pakistan, to which we have given $20 billion, was apparently hiding him? now, does any serious person believe that the pakistani government had no idea bin laden was sitting there? does anybody and notice, by the way, what the inte
but that is the individual mandate, is it not? it s a variation on it. so you won t use that issue against mitt romney? no, but it s a system that allows people to have a range of choices designed by the economy, but i think setting the precedent there are an amazing number of people who think they ought to be given health care, so a large number of the uninsured or earn under $75,000 a year don t buy any health insurance because they want to buy a second house or a better car or go on vacation, and you and i and everybody else ends up picking up for them. i don t think having a free rider system in health is any more appropriate than having a free rider system in any other part of our society. let me ask you about the u.s. role in the world. we re still digesting the intelligence that s coming out of the raid in pakistan that killed osama bin laden. you said in february, an honest assessment on 9/11 this year, ten years after the attack, would have to lead to the conclusi