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those are kind of light examples but my book goes into serious examples, the financial examples, the subhead is how public employee unions are raiding treasuries which is what they're doing. controlling our lives. they really have a lot of control especially -- these are government employees who have a lot of control over our every day lives. and they are bankrupting the nation. we can't afford to continue to do what we're doing. that's my big concern. you know, the old deal was that a government employees -- they'd get lower pay, right, but they would get somewhat better benefits and more job security. that was the old deal and i don't think there were quite so many government workers either when that old deal was in place. the new deal is they retire with very large salaries, often $100,000 or more. marsha fritz and her california foundation for fiscal responsibility has the $100,000 pension club and in california it's more than 10,000 people and there's other people close to it. and they get cost of living adjustments. they get free healthcare, free courtesy of the taxpayers. and they get
those are kind of light examples but my book goes into serious examples, the financial examples, the subhead is how public employee unions are raiding treasuries which is what they're doing. controlling our lives. they really have a lot of control especially -- these are government employees who have a lot of control over our every day lives. and they are bankrupting the nation. we can't afford to continue to do what we're doing. that's my big concern. you know, the old deal was that a...
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the subhead it goes this way -- deficit reduction campaign. the white house says the three- year plan could save much money over time. if you look at the lead to the wall street journal did put it this way, there subhead says the white house plan applies to only 17% of spending and will have a small impact on the deficit. here is their leader -- president obama proposes to have a three-year in federal spending, a movement to quell rising. rising -- to quell the rising concern. what do you think of this proposal, jack? caller: it seems like the health-care proposal bill is gone, and they want to freeze spending, but there were not freezing spending with the wall street people and the big banks being bailed out. i thought mr. obama was going to try to help some of the poor people and middle class people in the country. now the dump a lot of money on people who did not need it -- people getting million-dollar bonuses and billing of all these big corporations. poor folks in small towns are hurting. i will tell you what, i need to go to the doctor
the subhead it goes this way -- deficit reduction campaign. the white house says the three- year plan could save much money over time. if you look at the lead to the wall street journal did put it this way, there subhead says the white house plan applies to only 17% of spending and will have a small impact on the deficit. here is their leader -- president obama proposes to have a three-year in federal spending, a movement to quell rising. rising -- to quell the rising concern. what do you think...
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host: the subhead in this article this morning, european airports slow to implement.hey're having some of the same problems we have here as far as having enough people on the ground to do these kind of checks? guest: yes, i think yesterday many of them did not understand what the new requirements are. airports in france and the u.k. did not know whether the rules the u.s. was not trying to promulgate were legal in their systems. there is a general -- this is a problem most countries have. these are not jobs it will pay a lot of money for. the screen jobs. therefore, you attract a certain level ofÑi candidates for the jobs. it is whether or not you to pay the money to increase security. host: we see some of its all- time with leaders of various nations. economic summits. recently the climate change summit in copenhagen. any thoughts to having some sort of anti-tourism summit? in the near future or future? guest: there is some speculation on that front. -- of some type of anti- terrorism summit. guest: there are some thoughts of that. someone in europe might decide to h
host: the subhead in this article this morning, european airports slow to implement.hey're having some of the same problems we have here as far as having enough people on the ground to do these kind of checks? guest: yes, i think yesterday many of them did not understand what the new requirements are. airports in france and the u.k. did not know whether the rules the u.s. was not trying to promulgate were legal in their systems. there is a general -- this is a problem most countries have. these...
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one thing you will not find in this table on the right is a subhead which is a homeland security.that is because it isn't a budget function, so one complication in trying to apply what i've read in the newspaper about the devastation announcement to a table like this it sounds like they were excluding certain categories of spending that this table doesn't particularly highlight and we will of course analyze when we get the details on the budget proposal. .. i can't really compare that to how they felt in the 1980's. having been a graduate do not that time. and i would not in any case speculate on any correlation of the concern between elected officials and their constituents. >> can you describe the outlook, is it bleak and looking bleaker or is there any -- could you characterize that a bit more from what you meant? >> so, the term we use in the report for the budget outlook under current law is daunting. i used that this morning because under current law the deficits remain substantial throughout the decade and would be increasing in the decade beyond the one i hand because the
one thing you will not find in this table on the right is a subhead which is a homeland security.that is because it isn't a budget function, so one complication in trying to apply what i've read in the newspaper about the devastation announcement to a table like this it sounds like they were excluding certain categories of spending that this table doesn't particularly highlight and we will of course analyze when we get the details on the budget proposal. .. i can't really compare that to how...
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he subhead it says there are rallying allies to push for a package with better border security.is your stand on what the administration would like to do? guest: my prediction is nothing will happen at all. what the administration wants to do is it to manage the issue politically. president obama just does not care that much personally about immigration. he has the same views as sinister mccain, ted kennedy, president bush. he wants to legalize the immigrants who are already here. -- senator mccain. it is important to some of his constituency groups. the white house, for one year, has been walking a tightrope of not willing to alienate voters, not wanting to sacrifice more important policy objectives like health care and cap and trade while at the same time keeping their constituency groups that are demanding legalization keeping them happy. at the are walking a very difficult tightrope. i think there's going to be a lot of of fury. there will be hearings. ultimately there is zero chance of a broad legalization passing. host: do you agree with that? guest: i think the prospects a
he subhead it says there are rallying allies to push for a package with better border security.is your stand on what the administration would like to do? guest: my prediction is nothing will happen at all. what the administration wants to do is it to manage the issue politically. president obama just does not care that much personally about immigration. he has the same views as sinister mccain, ted kennedy, president bush. he wants to legalize the immigrants who are already here. -- senator...
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. >> host: the subhead >> host: having enough people on the ground to do these security checks. >> guest yeah, i think a lot of them just didn't understand what exactly was the -- what were the new requirements. i think there were airports in france and in the u.k. where they didn't know whether the rules that the u.s. was now trying to promulgate were legal in their system. and i think there is a general -- this is a problem most countries have, which is these are not jobs that you're going to pay a lot of money for. the screening jobs i'm talking about. and so, therefore, you attract a certain level of candidates, job candidates. and that all follows from there, you know. it's sort of whether you want tr pay the money to be able to increase security. >> we see summits all the time with leaders of various nations, economic summits. we recently had the climate change summit in copenhagen. any thoughts by this administration or any a of his counterparts overseas to having some sort of antiterrorism summit in the near future or in the future? >> guest: you ñknow, there's ben some speculati
. >> host: the subhead >> host: having enough people on the ground to do these security checks. >> guest yeah, i think a lot of them just didn't understand what exactly was the -- what were the new requirements. i think there were airports in france and in the u.k. where they didn't know whether the rules that the u.s. was now trying to promulgate were legal in their system. and i think there is a general -- this is a problem most countries have, which is these are not jobs...