system s working. and there are people who benefit because you don t have a job or home or health care. we need to name those people, those war profiteers who are making 10, 20, 30 million dollars while you don t have a job. we need to name people like murdoch. we need to name the bankers and the wall street folks and connect the dots for people. this is a system. this is an order system. and people are paying a terrible price. and it s thrilling to see their courage and their guts and their honesty in throwing their bodies out there and saying day after day, damn it, no more. and fox news obviously throwing a concerted effort to disparage the movement and also to degrade it and label it things that it simply is not. is that going to strengthen the movement in your opinion? well, if we listened to fox, ed, i think we d all be in a lot
neighborhoods pitching in, allowing folks to sign recall petitions right on their lawn. that s the packer way of doing things. a spokeswoman for united wisconsin tells the associated press they ve already gathered 50,000 signatures in just 48 hours. in support for the governor and his union busing efforts is collapsing statewide. 58% of wisconsin voters want to see this guy out of a job. with numbers like that no wonder walker sought to hannitize the situation. you balanced the $3.6 billion deficit and you were able to do it without raising taxes on the people of wisconsin and create 40,000 new jobs in just the first six months, right? hold on, hannity. you re glossing over a few facts here. as the associated press reported back in february, wisconsin s budget shortfall had nothing to do with collective bargaining but rather other financial obligations. walker s tax cuts in fact made the state s ongoing budget
budget shortfall had nothing to do with collective bargaining but rather other financial obligations. walker s tax cuts in fact made the state s ongoing budget problems worse. and since walker signed the union-busting bill into law, the state, listen up, folks, has lost jobs. nearly 10,000 last month alone. most of them from the private sector. now, if the unions go forward with this and the special interests go forward in this, how much is it going to cost the taxpayers? do you have an estimate how much it will cost them for this recall effort? well they re saying in some case up to $10 million in taxpayers money not to mention the tens of millions they spent earlier in the year against the state senators. yet walker s own party didn t seem concerned about taxpayer money when they attempted to recall three democratic state senators. republicans wasted even more taxpayer dollars playing otto yonkerman style politics by running fake democrats in primaries. with three more gop sta
here come the top 1 and 2 percenters. they ve gone up in income over 300% over the last 30 years. if they disband and they go home tonight, does this graph change? hell, no, it doesn t. this is why the protesters will return and numbers will grow. look, the people in iowa and wisconsin and ohio have told me within the last 30 days, you know, these hard-working middle-class average americans out in the middle of the country, they ve told me face to face that they stand with these protesters. there s just too many average folks across the country that understand this divide and they sympathize with the protesters and the movement. now, washington politicians, you know, they can dress nice and look smart and say the right things in front of the camera and say they re working hard for their constituents. but you know what? if they think that they can ride out this storm, they re not going to be able to do it there will be an election day and there will be change. these people are going to
community leaders, with religious leaders. and one of the things that mary kay henry and some of the other folks who were arrested said to me was they thought it was important that they do this so that people across the country knew that it wasn t just union leaders saying oh, yeah, go out and protest, go out and take the risks, that the leaders themselves would take the risks as well. it builds the courage of the movement. it suggests that this is not just a movement of some you know, some folks being told to go in but everybody s going in together. and i think the symbolism was very, very important. well, how often is this going to happen in your opinion? and do you think it will motivate other labor folks now that they ve seen a president get arrested to do the same thing? well, back in the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s you started seeing some people step up, and it became a thing of honor to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. i think we might well see some mo