doing just that. tracey said why make it longer and not just help our kids but our economy. good things my kids are on a baseball field but i do think that there is something to be said about a longer school year. they have little minds. september is a waste and so by the time the summer comes. they basically feel like they walk would away with nothing . john, you say not so. there is no correlation between length of the school year and student achievement. u.s. students are more in class than those in japan and finland and they have much better school. the government run schools and unions that bill extra hours at taxpayer s extense.
prohibitive lee expensive. antiquated work rules we ve seen in it automotive industry, in the steel industry where efficient will see and new productive machines can come into play and people get displaced by that. it s been a difficult thing but it s one of the things that in order to maintain the cost and competitiveness in a global marketplace we have to pay attention to. reporter: president obama is basically caught in a web of his own making. he wants to be competitive in the global marketplace buy also owes his victory in part to unions, and by extense to some of the antiquated work rules that they support. you only have to look to michigan where workers were instrumental in reviving the auto industry to see how unions have helped build not just a stronger middle class, but a strong america. [. [cheers and applause] ] those remarks delivered on december 10th in michigan at the damler detroit diesel plant
you to cut spending. we re borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. if we keep borrowing like president obama proposed, that itself is a drag on economic growth. all of the deficit, all of the debt is one of the greatest threats to our economy and job creation. when will we see the romney plan and the particulars laid out? you have seen more details from mitt romney on fiscal policy, on saving entitlements, getting back to work than the incumbent president of the united states. wait a minute. he proposed a full-blown budget. his budget didn t even try to balance the budget. his budget proposes more debt. more spending. more borrowing. more regulating. it gave us four years of trillion-dollar deficits and proposing more of the same. you answer the charge that you are planning massive tax cuts for the wealthy. at the extense of the middle class. how do you respond to that allegation? what we re saying is get rid of special interest loopholes and deductions that are unique
from now on, we re going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we re going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? we re told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stability in the helmand province. they were going to meet some of their local afghan contacts when they were shot and killed. right now the isaf, the u.s. military is looking for the gunman, the man who shot and killed these troops. the taliban claims that the troops were lured in by an afghan police commander under the ruse of having dinner and being friendly when he turned on them
the american people are with me childhood obesity and the on this. military. there was a study out recently we all say we agree that we should extend the tax cuts for estimating 25% of teenagers are either diabetic or prediabetic. 98% of the american people. right. everybody says that. crazy. the republicans say they don t 25%? want to raise taxes on the yeah. it s a real epidemic and it s middle class, i don t want to raise taxes on the middle class. growing. it is amazing we debated so we should all agree to extend health care for two years. the tax cuts for the middle class. i m telling you if we approached let s agree to do what we agree on. right? it from this vantage point we let s not hold the vast majority wouldn t have as much of a debate. this is the core of our problems to an extent. of americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate how can you, when you look at the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy. the military say we will be ready 20, 30 year