critic than governor perry. how does texas stack up over the last 10 years in education? texas is struggling. i feel badly for the children there. texas may have the highest high school drop-out rate i m sorry the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. far too few of the graduates are prepared to go to college. massive increases in class size. cutbacks in funding. we have to educate our way to a this has all happened on governor perry s watch? it has. sean: the head of the texas education agency slammed him for a politically motivated distortion. in a letter commissioner scott writes your pity is misplaced rather than talking about education reform, educator
not bad. class size has dropped. they have a statute in there that says it can t be higher than 23 kids per class. and it has been lower than that. i m critical of perry s record on education. but because he s not done enough to promote school choice. he s into the friday night football school board go to the school and go out for the team sean: certainly this was in terms of education quality, texas has been one of the leaders in the country. sean: it seems this intensity now. when he talked about a black cloud hanging over america because of the debt. remember they said kill romney. if it is perry they want to kill perry, according to the politico article. the obama media went out there tried to say black cloud, must be racist. and took the words out of context to get there. i didn t hear that look, he is desperate. his poll numbers are terrible. obama is now at 39% approval
their own either. sean: the president never gave us his plan. and the republicans didn t have a plan. you are the party of no. sean: i wonder if the president will call for civility from maxine waters? i won t hold my breath. our great american panel is next.
we ve gone to making mass produced food cheaper which has created an obesity epidemic in the united states. sean: how about vegetables, cheese healthier foods are more expensive. sean: i make a great meatloaf. what are you going to buy 24 cans of coke? i like coca-cola, but it is kind of a luxury to me. jive to agree. if they are going to let em use food stamps for sodas, they might as let em buy cigarettes. it gives you the same amount of nutrition. you make a great meatloaf? sean: i used to be a shep beckel. i know. a chef, beckel many i know. you have an amazing story. how you up being a right winger with all the good things you have done, i don t
sean: we continue with our great american panel. the president says he will be judged on the economy. the president: you ve got an unemployment rate that is still too high. an economy that is not growing fast enough. for me to argue, we ve may the right decisions. things would have been much worse had we not made those decisions. that s not that satisfying if you don t have a right now. i understand that and i expect to be judged a year from now on whether or not things have continued to get better. sean: they haven t gotten better. i m so glad you are talking about the economy. all anybody else wants to talk about is the missteps the republican candidates are making many a lot of people want at this time that way because they don t want to talk about obama s failed economic policies. keep it on obama s failed economic policy. [ unintelligible ] people who are unemployed it