flourish. and what do you see as the critical variables, not of the success of the small business or big business because if you re growing, that size will change, but the environment or incubator that s best for the creation of new business. well, i think it all starts, it s founded on the educational system in this county tr. the strength of our public and private universities being able to create these idea and then having an engine that can fund them and see these new businesses created that will shape our future. i want to show people a couple more statistics. sometimes, a new idea for people. it is stunning when you look at the numbers. can we get the bar graphic that shows creation and job loss based on the creation of the firm? what we re looking at is a bar chart of how many people get hired in the given year of a company s life span. you can see the first year is when a huge percentage of the jobs are created.
to close that opportunity gap? what we ve seen is tremendous courage on the part of state governors around superintendents, local teachers, principals, people who work very hard. we have standards, the country we re going to stop gumming down standards, stop lying to children s families, telling them they re ready when they re not. secondly, we have 44 states working together to create better help us better evaluate student s strengths and weaknesses. i couldn t be more pleased by the progress we ve seen. we re going to get where we need to go as a county tr. that s great news. when you look at the amount we spend and what we get for it, we spend a huge amount of money on education in this countrcountry. we don t get a good yield.
we need to have public-private partnershi partnerships like in world war ii, where the government facilitates the private sector and together, we drive success, drive job creation. instead of bickering while 25 plus million americans are out of work. there s a sense, dan, that you have a division because you have one portion of the economy that benefits to the distorted trade who are more profitable in some cases because of the distorted trade and then you have another portion of the economy that obviously you are a component of, that is saying allowing this to go on is destroying our ability to attract money to our country or create jobs in this county tr. how is a politician to reconcile those two forces? have to do what s right for america. what s right is putting
warrantless wiretapping, then your duty really is to say, live up to the constitution and tell the truth. i wish i had done it years earlier than i actually did. so bradley manning could potentially fall into that category. certainly not. he s being called a trader and no way does he fit the definition of a trader. why? because i think he wants the best for his county tr. this is what i know from what s come out. so, this is your analysis based on the news. based on the news. when i read that what we saw he thought was almost criminal and the video he takes credit for having released to a friend of his at least, of what was called the collateral murder of the reuters newspaper man, looked like a war crime. he said he saw much like that and the stuff he said should be
it, that s really not thoughtful and how we work in this county tr. going back to the bush years and cheney task force, the papers went all the way to the supreme court, back to appeals court, but bottom line, the papers of that task force were never released. do you have any concerns that the last regulation or the light hand of regulation or something perhaps even more concerning took place during those years and that is one reason why there hasn t been better demands on the industry by halleburton, transocean? yes. the answer the plain and simply obviously yes. everybody i objected to the secret cheney meetings and secret cheney task force. they came upç with a policy written by exclusively those people who are interested in the outcome. that s not the way it should work. we said so at the time and i