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Scott Walker breaks from Romney, says teachers and firefighters aren’t ‘big government’ | On Friday, Mitt Romney said the message of the recall election in Wisconsin was that Americans didn’t want “more firemen, more policemen, more teachers.” Appearing on CBS’ Face The Nation today, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said he disagreed with Romney, saying teachers and firefighters aren’t “what I think of when I think of big government.”

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