Education that is a monopoly. Colleges and universities are the only ones allowed to serve degrees without providing a job in the worst part of it is, they borrowed money to pay for the degree so now they have thousands and thousands of dollars in student loans. And that you only job he can get, they could have gotten without the degree. We have been failed by every big institution. Every day, we find out they have cheated someone. They lied about something. They lied to their stockholders, investors, took multimillion dollar bonuses while the company was going into the tank. We have been failed by everyone and people are not confident in our institutions and it leads to anger and frustration. That is why leadership matters. Leadership does not come to you and say, lets be angry and angrier. Leadership says, yes, we have real problems and we also have answers and solutions. The solutions do not lie in one person. I always get uncomfortable and people say, we put all of our faith in you
That would have been lousy. Is only oneustry example of his failure to stand up for ohio. Lets talk about trade. , are strutting chadhas nowus with china, and senator portman, saying yes, when we were both in the house, when these job killing trade deals came up, i voted no. He voted yes. Has been ab portman cheerleader for the worst job killing trade deals that have ever been proposed. Portman is i say rob the best senator the china has ever had. [applause] mr. Strickland can we talk about retirement . Senator portman thinks we should privatize social security. Over to wall street. What could possibly go wrong . He wants to voucherizing to care , medicare, let our seniors negotiate with the industries. Who thinks thats a good idea . He wants to raise the retirement age. Let me explain something, because clearly the senator would have no way of knowing this. The human body isnt meant for seven decades of hard labor. You cant spend your whole life finishing concrete, and when you are do
Experiences. Guest the federal government has tried to roll up waste and fraud, but when taxpayer money is involved it is different than a private enterprise. The ability for fraud to creep into Government Programs financed by taxes is much tighter than private enterprises because shareholders have their own money that they invest. There are a certain amount of problems. For instance, medicare, probably in the order of 60 billion per year in a wasteful and fraudulent payments. This is a huge number. It is in part because medicare programs paying a billion claims a year for medical services. The ability to track the claims and figure out which ones are right and wrong is limited at the federal level. I think there is a certain amount of things that go on and government that is difficult to get all the waste out. The caller is absolutely right it to be a top priority. Host alright, kathy, Wesley Chapel florida, republican caller. You will have to make a quick. Caller hi. Ok, first, i thi
He presented his views on that issue. . When we were asking about the chicago teachers strike before the election, you said it was a local issue and the president has, quote, not expressed any opinion or made any assessment about this particular incidence incident going on in his hometown. Why is this different . Its playing out in michigan, we saw in it wisconsin several months ago. I understand he was in the state of michigan but hes from chicago. Why the president s position on righttowork laws is well known he stated it before, he stated it again yesterday. The specific teachers strike was one where he called on all sides to Work Together to reach a compromise in the interest of the children who had the most to lose from a prolonged strike and he welcomed the resolution of that strike. Yesterday, we saw a memo from a Campaign Official urging the president s supporters to contact members of congress and express support for the president s view of proposal for resolving the fiscal cl
Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, but its going to be a big void for this house for not just all five, but especially Steve Latourette who has really given his heart and his soul for 18 years try to make this body and our nation a better place for our kids and our our grandkids. It really didnt matter who you were or what you were about or if you had an r or a d by your name with respect to steve. If he believed in your cause, he was your partner, and he was going to do everything within his power to make sure that cause, that iss