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the rich have always sailed majestically on the good ship dollar big bucks. and you know, the rich take risks. and not all of us are big risk takers. and this has been a good world to take risks in, big risks, because you get bailed out if you fail, and if you win, you win big, right? that s exactly right. all right, guys, we ll leave it at that. great that talk to you all. christine, you can watch her saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. it s an age-old battle, union bosses versus the employer, but change is needed and it s needed now. i ll tell you why next. ring ring. progresso. oh yes hi. can you please put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. another person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it s her soup huh? i m told she s in the garden picking herbs. she is so cute. okay i ll hold. she s holding. wha? (announcer) progresso.
lawmakers still get paid even though hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be furloughed. i think we live in a safe civil society, we don t think about our connections to government until things like this happen. christine, thank you so much. stephen moore, you ve got half an answer to give us, let me ask you another question. we talk theory all the time. but in real terms that any average american would understand, what scares you the most about a potential government shutdown? well, i don t want to see a government shutdown but it s not the end of the world, either. if people can t go to the washington monument for a few days it s not the end of western civilization. my point is we have a crisis much bigger than a few-day government shutdown and that crisis is borrowing $1.6 trillion a year which i think is really destroying the economic fabric of our country. what i was going to say before the break is i m a little frustrated with harold because if you listen to what
anyone. the real issue here is that we haven t had a good evaluation system. and my union and others have looked to how do we overhaul an evaluation system and how do we align due process with it. it s a false choice to say either no process or cumbersome process. and ultimately if you look at what teachers do, we are responsible for everything in a child s life. now, maybe that s not fair, i don t think it is. but ultimately that s what we try to do in instruction. and it s for all kids, not just some kids. and so ultimately we need to have a fairness process, not simply being told what to do and when to do it and that s what those teachers were telling christine. teachers work their hearts out to help kids but they need to be supported and they need to be treated with respect and dignity. at the same time, our union has gone and focused on how do we improve quality hugely so that teachers are the best they can be but also have fairness attended to it.
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