union scale. they want you to be safe. they are very upset. they are cracking down, but where are they cracking down? i read that the head of american airlines flight attendants unions said that any animal can get by besides a snake. meanwhile i read donald trump flew yesterday. good point. i knew something was coming there. i think you are all crazy. and dogs are the same as cats. especially the airline dogs. they are like furry they look like cats. i don t want little dogs. the the dogs are the ones they take on the plane. stewardesses need to be replaced by pigs. to say they are not emotionally supportive is ridiculous. i will be upset and slam down a pound of canadian bacon, i will feel great. apparently there are on-line doctors and you fill out a form and there you go. you can have your pet pig on the plane. of course they abuse the
contractors. stuart varney, you have more on this? you got it right. this new law in california will make sure that infrastructure projects cost more and take longer to build. right now, you ve got the national labor relations act which says you ve got an infrastructure project funneldey the federal taxpayer, you have to use union scale labor, you have to use union rules, pensions and benefits, everything that goes with a unionized project. that raises the costs. it s a blue state. it s an homage to the unions. here s what happened. san diego wanted to drop out of this. they wanted competitive bidding, competitive labor for their local infrastructure projects. in comes governor brown, democrat california and says no, you can t do that. we must have union scale pay, union scale work rules and union scale pay in benefits and health. the governor can take away the city s own power to do what they choose. he just did it, party. in terms of numbers, what does it mean when you
unions as he s never been before. yesterday, he did it in two ways. big campaign style speech to a union audience and secondly, he offered a hint as to what he s going to say on thursday night and the hint was we re gonna have a big, new infrastructure program. that favors the unions entirely. that s all about using union labor, union scale with public money. now, the markets are very anxious about this. here we are just we re either in or going into recession. and the president doubles down on a policy which really was not successful first time around. what are investors supposed to think? they don t like this. they don t think it s going to work and they re ditching stocks this morning. see, i don t think what he said yesterday was anything new because he gave the hint about infrastructure spending three weeks ago. my concern is that the speech thursday will be nothing new and then what will happen to the market? fair point. fair point. i mean, it wasn t the idea of an infras
unemployment here in america. couldn t american workers be better served building that bridge here? why is it so much more expense? reporter: davis bacon. the name of a law that says any government project must use union labor union scale pay for the labor that works on that project. if you were to impose union scale on the workers who created the new bay bridge it would cost a half billion more than it does to outsource it to the chinese. remember, please, california is broke. they don t have an extra half billion lying around all over the lace. so they go to china to get it done. gretchen: a lot of people will be asking about about the quality of this bridge? when you look at the quality some of the products in china, sometimes they are not the best of quality. reporter: i m not saying this is a good thing. i m saying california has to do this because they are broke. and they cannot afford an extra
back. they didn t have to pay davis bacon scale. it s union wages and union scale that s forced the manufacturer of the bay bridge, for heaven s sake, into china and not into the united states. to me, if you were a politician and you say listen, i m caught i would have a speech prepared saying i m torn. i m torn between doing the best i can with your dollars and doing the best i can employing you. but here s my problem. that s the way i would lay it out. but california is flat broke! they ve got a massive budget deficit. are they going to ask their taxpayers to pay an extra half billion dollars so that the bay bridge is built in america as opposed to china. that s a half billion dollars they don t have. what are they supposed to do? they got to go with the cheapest and most efficient supplier of that product which is the bay bridge. and you would think that maybe that would come up with the president s speech today in iowa when he s talking about manufacturing and where it s go