it s good. you know, good back and forth and opportunity for us to lay out our vision for how you make sure the people on social security are going to have it, that are on it now. those that are approaching it. and those that are mid-career, or younger people. and how we re going to transform it and make sure they had a program in place. i thought it was a very positive conversation with the people of the country. that was republican presidential front-runner rick perry in tampa this morning giving his spin on last night s republican presidential debate. perry is desperately trying to dig his way out of a hole he dug for himself by calling social security a ponzi scheme, a failure and unconstitutional. do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out and return to the states? i think we ought to have a conversation
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$12 billion a year to pay the retirees and it is not a significant number of the people in the armed forces that we get or want to keep for 20 years. so, again, i think that they can look at it, but this is the conversation, itself, will cause enormous chagrin in the mid-career noncommissioned officer corps and the young officers of the armed forces. and this as so much focus on the armed forces as we are operating in three fronts around the world. thank you, general. appreciate your time. good to be with you, richard. thank you. the riots around london tops our news around the nation. today, officers were sent to protect major shopping centers of the city and as well as sites of the 2012 olympic games after intercepting phone messages
is improve the quality of teachers? improve the education for the students? yes. and stabilize it. that is part of the biggest issue is we are not able to stabilize as these rifts pull teachers away that want to be at our school sites. so, duffy, when you go just by seniority, don t you sometimes cut off your nose to spite your face? you have a lot of great young educators out there being cut out of job force. and we have a lot of mid career and veteran educators that do a fabulous job. this is actually a false issue and it s false because seniority was never the primary way used to determine who would stay at a school site. i want to point out this crisis was manufactured by the school district. in los angeles we had several years ago what s called the rodriguez consent decree.
the rodriguez consent decree required that every school have a mix of new, mid career, and veteran teachers. the district went to the court and got rid of it. i want to read bulletin 2574.0 dated june 5th, 2006. while the district has prevailed, it is important to continue to maintain the established policies and procedures used to ensure that a school density guidelines are kept and that the highly qualified and experienced teachers are equitably distributed amongst the schools, the district did not follow their own guidelines. they created this situation. duffy, here is my question. when you have to layoff teachers how do you go about doing it? you look at seniority. you also look at qualifications.