about a lot of things and if you are willing to engage him with the same passion that he has for your subject, then he s all in and you did that with your get the money out. with your job tour. with the way you advocated for veterans works back home with helping protect the environment. you didn t have to do that on this show. you could have stuck to the talking points. but you didn t do that and that s something to be admired and something you shouldn t take lightly. that means a lot. those were choices and choices that i made with steve friedman and the staff, understanding we had a privilege to be rented some real estate from nbc, who gave us the opportunity to do this. i would say you and everyone out there has more than a privilege. they have an obligation. if you re given a platform like this, you can choose to use it various ways. you can play the expert mantle and talk down to your audience.
rick santorum hits the books this week. first he takes on satan, then a woman s right to choose, now college. yes, mr. santorum is spreading the word about the evils of education. go team. now back to the university educated tamron hall. coming up at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, dylan ratigan wraps up his job tour. he s been tackling the problems facing the next generation. for college students that means massive debt and these days an uncertain job market. earlier this week the tour stopped in kentucky and also in ohio. today dylan is at the university of chicago. good to see you. nice to see you. they re all asking for you. i ll be there to visit soon. let me ask you, when we were, we re probably about the same age, out of school and the prospects were tough. people say go into engineering, certain things were foolproof
opportunity like this should be met with opportunity, not fear. lots to be afraid of when it comes to leaving your job. why is it so important we come to understand not only how you can greet job changes with enthusiasm, but why is it important we have an awareness about how important it is to change jobs? because with changing jobs comes a rediscovering. with changing jobs comes the possibility of innovation. with changing jobs comes the ability to change the course of your not only professional life, but personal growth. i think it s in line with the work you re doing with the 30 million job tour. it s a more local level. this is a personal issue as much as it is a campaign. you know? and if you look at the reason people don t want to leave a job they hate, it s fear. sometimes justified. sometimes justified fear. people have to pay their bills.
this is totally today. but he wanted to change or expected to change in six months. we re not even having the debate. the point is the debate we need to have, you re right. more people are in poverty, but why? that s on the distorted capital flows of our nation. the way the political debate is shaking out is republicans are trying to blame it on obama. that doesn t get it to how do we create more pathways to success? republicans talk about it as a finite resource. the democrats are saying let everybody have cayman island accounts. we need to talk about structural change. you talked about racism earlier this week. what are the changes we need to have? how did we get here? the premise of this job tour is where it s for innovation or
for christmas. the bottom line in the presidential campaign. lots of talk, but not a lot of ideas. where will the big idea come from. let s go out front. hello, everyone. welcome to monday. i m erin burnett. and out front tonight, big ideas. ron paul wants to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget. herman cain wants to toss out the current tax plan and go to 9-9-9. some people have laughed at the candidates for these big ideas, but the reality is a bold idea, not necessarily cain s or paul s, is what we need to break through the paralysis in washington that s hurting americans and america s reputation. paul, cain, and the other republican candidates are gathering in nevada for tomorrow s debate. and nevada is a place that needs a really big idea. the state s unemployment, 13.4%, highest in the united states of america. 4 percentage points above the national average. housing is a bust. nevada ranks number one in foreclosures. las vegas prices down almost 60% from the peak