provisions in the procedures. it s not just the clock expiring, what happened is the new york post wrote about the guy and mixed martial arts and somebody at the city said why are we paying that dude 70 grand a year if he s doing martial arts, so an independent review board evaluates the guy and said of course he s fit and the firefighters union, why, joey, why, says no, we d rather pay them to do nothing. what s the motive? unions have a function, they support their members, i understand that, and i support unions wholeheartedly, however, as i mentioned before, we have a disability pension system for a reason. does it need reform? absolutely. at the beginning of bloomberg s term in 2002, pension costs $1.5 billion, they re up to $8 billion. why? because of reasons like this. we can t rely upon technical arcane rules. there needs to be changes in the statute, there should, but he should voluntarily as a matter of principle give this pension back, come back to work, he s fit to do
30 hours nonstop, 30 days, he got sick, i grant him that. look if we had heros pay he d be my first candidate but this is a disability pension, tax-free, 75 grand, a lot of money, and the fact of the matter is megyn: for life. tax-free for life. and they call this a disability, megyn, because you re supposed to be disabled and if you re not disaibd you should not get that pension, he should not get it, he should return it, he should go back to work and i think somebody who deserves it should indeed get it. megyn: chip this is part of a long line of cases in which the new york firefighters union has given disability or argued for disability for firefighters when there s been a lot of questions about whether they are actually disabled. and cases like this cast aspersians on the ones that are legitimate, do they not? well, they certainly do. but the important thing and i think the lesson that can be learned from everybody from this, is at the time the unions and governments
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what the what they want the president to do. the group in the middle is tire of the people in the extremes driving the bus. they feel they have no say. they re going to get it, one way or the other. the president is getting $70,000 a year in disability payments. all while participating in mixed martial arts message. you should see him go. why exactly are we paying for the disability again? kelly s court. a lost amazon tribe photographed for the first time last year as disappeared and there s an awful theory about why. and earlier this week, we told you about the outrage over the remake of dirty dancing now brand
mistaken, the obama administration, anticipating this could happen, not so much at the 11th circuit but the u.s. supreme court, i mean, they re not dumb, they realized there was a chance they could lose at the high court. they could win, too, but if they lose, president obama doesn t want to see his biggest legislative accomplishment so far go to waste so they re trying to find a way the law could work without the individual mandate. what they d be missing is a huge funding mechanism, am i wrong? i think that s right. the finances of it, megyn, would change a great deal. and you know, from a political perspective, i think this is the republican this gives the republicans a chance to say look, you know, what was passed isn t going to work, it s been fundamentally changed, let s redo this. and for the obama administration and the democrats in congress who supported this legislation, it gives them a chance to maybe tinker with it and