the teacher s unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. whenever anyone dears to offer a new idea, the unions protest allow it. our job keeps getting harder because the unions wield out sized influence in elections and campaigns. that s mitt romney going after the teacher s unions at a speech he gave to a latino coalition lunch on wednesday. fascinatingly, it s not surprising that teachers unions, democrats and republicans both attacked. teacher s unions are within the democratic coalition so it s much easier to go at them full bore. stephanie cutter, who is a spokesperson for the president
now massachusetts secretary of state is promising to review issues reliterallied to the ipo and the senate banking committee wants to know more. there was a time when stocks used to be the most benign instrument on wall street. what happened? so what do we make of this? screw ups can happen anywhere. is this a screw up that s just contingent accidental? or does it say something about what is going on in our financial markets? let s do a little reconnaissance. we have a group, a generation of investors that have been lost over the last ten years. we call the years between 2000, 2010 the lost decade of stocks. the indexes have gone nowhere.
is a sacred cow that we have to take a look at. and the data is a little inconclusive on class size i ll say having dipped into it recently. and then you have michael nutter going after romney for, you know, his education vision while in philadelphia is the site of this very ambitious massive project in essentially breaking up the central school district. they ve hired a boston group to come up with the plan and they re going to try to create competition among different entities that would manage different schools. so it doesn t look like that different from the basic outlines of the vision that mitt romney is employing. how much is privatization? how much of that is driving? i think a lot of it is headed there. many people look at public education and see a lot of money being spent and some would argue being wasted and would like to have private access to it.
and we know that the staff committee chairman is a registered lobbyist for the bank. we know that he was hired to work on the regulatory inform on behalf of the bank. we know he is staffing the committee tasked with overseaing the committee and though we don t know where the al leenss lie, we can guess. thank you to michael isikoff, we now know what the next billionaire super pac donor access looks likement we though that a group calling themselves the oil champions we know that with the s.e.c. disclosure filings we know that he contributed to the pro romney super pac restore our future rg and we are certain that we will is see more billionaire benefactors with financial stakes in the ranks of romney s policy advisers in the months to come. we knew that allen simpson was performing a self-caricature of a cranky old man by taking to
the airways and saying things like this. children are not sending thank you cards for the christmas presents and listen enning to the snoopy snoopy poop dog. well, in a letter to the california senior groups that was critical of his simpson/bowles group, he knows that he was writing and the flier s of saying that you are wretched group of seniors you mus be to use the faces of the very people that we are trying to save while the greedy geezers like you use them as a tool to