statistics. to getting to the first thing you said, at the president s state of the union address, he said we can keep protecting the pell grant, but that s going to skyrocket to the point where it doesn t make sense anymore. at a certain point you have to force colleges to keep their costs in check. and the way to do that is ultimately going to be, you know, a tough decision and holding higher administrators of these colleges and universities accountable for the next decade or so. when we come back, i want to ask what would be the metrics you want to have if selectivity isn t it. i value liberal arts education for itself. up next, is the education that students receive worth the money they pay for it. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf s pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf s small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day!
debt, the environment, the dignity of immigrants, civil liberties, we see these issues as deeply bound up in one another, and unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on who you are, governor romney with his 47% comment, would go and borrow money from your parents has done a worse job in showing how out of touch he is with this generation. what i feel we re hearing, in 2012. you re with the roosevelt institute which is taking young people like this, training them for exactly this kind of integrated big thinking. is there any way to make that penetrate our presidential process? i think their absolutely is. i think everybody is right here, that young people are motivated by values. they are motivated by high ideals, and we see that at the roosevelt campus network. we have 10,000 students on 100
overshadows the voice of regular people and the stamp stampede campaign is about regular people being able to make their money talk by stamping messages on it. this is a message about stamping money out of politics to pass an amendment to the constitution to say that corporations are not people and money is not free speech. before you can go spend your dollars at your local business, then you first stamp it and it s your message to say stamp the money out of politics. i have a brilliant producer, and i bought for her a stamp that says it s all bs. maybe she can put that on her money. while ben & jerry s is over here stamping the dollar bills which i hope don t ever end up in anyone s g string, valerie, talk to me about what you were saying earlier about how this feels like maybe a way to start bringing regular people s voices. i am going to take these
millennial generation voters who i ve been discussing with my guests. the president is a professor in a certain way. here you are on campus. when he does his profess sorrell thing, is that a connecting of points? absolutely. that s what we re hearing from our students. this isn t a talking points generation. when any politician does the talking about that, when the president expects them by explaining policies in that profess sorrell manner. we were talking about the mtv town hall that occurred just before the president sort of makes his appeal. you were saying to me, i don t know. i didn t feel like his responses felt professorial. i felt like young people like being spoken to as though we re an intelligent block and we don t like being talked down to in a con sending way.
campuses across the country. we know what we need to do with them is to reinvent the way they are going to engage in the political process. so what our young people really want to do, of course they want to vote. of course they want to register. what they also want to do is engage in their own communities. this is both a values driven generation but also a practical generation. they want solutions they can invent, that they can bring into their communities, whether it s improving food distribution, improving green energy. these are things they re able to do themselves. that is a mode of millennial set of engagement that really can work. i think we can see that throughout the presidential. matt? felicia s reference to local communities highlights the die cot ma dichotomy. volunteerism you get an immediate efficacy, you see a smiling kid when you re done tutoring them. when you vote in this country,