it s a criminal misdiagnosis of the problem. economics professor at cornell university. appreciate your time in helping to understand this. thank you. always a pressure. so there has been a lot of excellent coverage for the last couple of weeks about the big political stand under arrest r off in wisconsin. this is about the future existence of the democratic party and it is the sharpest relief we had in this country about why we have two parties and what the difference is between them. nobody has been on the story longer or been doing it better than my friend ed schultz. after the show ed will talk with a policeman who stood with the protesters, defying the governor that everyone leave. i have been looking forward all day to seeing this interview. coming up next on the ed show. please do not miss it. despite incredible difficulty and peril reporting on it, the situation in libya cleared everybody in the world with access to a tv or radio or a
chunk of the get out the vote infrastructure that democrats rely on. the republican party more than anything else represents corporate interest the democratic party more than anything else represents people who work for corporate interests or people who represent something other than corporations. the longer this goes on, the longer this stretches out, the clearer it gets that this is not a fight about the budget. at the out set, there was a strange fact that the specific unions that would be exempted from the new rules, the unions that wouldn t get stripped happen to be the unions that support scott walker in the last election. the revelation that right around the same time that he claimed the budget crisis. governor walker and state republicans passed $140 million worth of tax giveaways. tax giveaways that were not paid for. they were under the state s deficit. i thought this was because you were worried about that deficit.
as the thing went on longer, the unions offered to give all the consessions he asked for. if he were just concerned about the deficit would have meant he won. game over. governor walker did not accept the concessions he didn t want to talk about them. today as this keeps going on comes the threat that if he doesn t get what he want, he may have to lay off people. why tomorrow? it s the deadline for refinancing the state s debt. that will add another $14 million. what s the reasoning? we have a deficit problem and unless i can make it worse, the workers get it? this is not about the state budget and about republicans winning elections and
when you ask them about it. the republican party is not rebutting that what they propose is less growth for america and less jobs in america they are not rebuting it. they admit it when pressed. they are counting on you not paying attention the associated press interviewed a number of governors for the governor s association meeting, the meeting with president obama today. the ap noted in their article that governors are turning down money and undermining federal initiatives designed to create jobs. republican governors fighting against or turning away from funning for everything from health reform to infrastructure and education. the effect is real. it means fewer jobs in their states. it means fewer jobs in the country. it means less economic growth for america. less growth and less jobs for the states and all of us. if the most important thing heading into a president s reelection campaign is how the economy is doing, republican economic policies right now on are strongest force pul
scrapping their dues or whatever they meant. the official republican party decided to bet on scott walker in this fight in wisconsin in a really big way. real, live republicans who have governing responsibility on the other hand, not so much. the apparatus is on board. the politicians are not. when scott walker took what turned out to be a prank phone call from a man he thought was a conservative billionaire named david koch, one of the things scott walker got wrong in the call was the idea that republican leaders across the country were going to fall in line behind him, follow his leadership on union stripping. i talk to kasich every day. john has to stand firm in ohio. i think we do the same with ric scott in florida. snyder if he had more support could probably get michigan. brian, the governor in nevada called me last night, said he was out in the lincoln day circuit last two weekend.