causing teachers to be laid off in droves as the president said. kasich s 2011 budget cut education funding by 11.5%. as a result, an estimated 10,000 ohio teachers could end up losing their jobs. the president invited one of the teachers to sit near the first lady in the house chamber tonight as he delivered his jobs speech. she joins us tonight. nicole gentile, a third grade teacher from cleveland, ohio. nicole, thanks for your time tonight. that sound byte we played of president obama, did you feel like you still had hope to keep your job because you re set to be laid off in october. how do you feel? it made me very optimistic. i just really hope this job bill goes through fast. we need to get our teachers back into the classrooms and working with the children. who do you blame for your job being in jeopardy and your colleagues? you know what, i think there s a lot of finger pointing
ohio governor john kasich is causing teachers to be laid off in droves as the president said. kasich s 2011 budget cut education funding by 11.5%. as a result, an estimated 10,000 ohio teachers could end up losing their jobs. the president invited one of the teachers to sit near the first lady in the house chamber tonight as he delivered his jobs speech. she joins us tonight. nicole gentile, a third grade teacher from cleveland, ohio. nicole, thanks for your time tonight. that sound byte we played of president obama, did you feel like you still had hope to keep your job because you re set to be laid off in october. how do you feel? it made me very optimistic. i just really hope this job bill goes through fast. we need to get our teachers back into the classrooms and working with the children. who do you blame for your job
collective bargaining rights, start working with us, stop working against us, and get our teachers back in classrooms where they belong. nicole gentile, when you found out you were going to be in the chamber tonight, what was that like? i ve been there, it is pretty exciting to see it all unfold. how did you feel about it tonight? it has been one of the most exciting days of my life. it s been fantastic. it was an honor to meet the president and the first lady. first time you re there, kind of cool to see everybody in person, isn t it? it is. when we were done, we got to see hillary clinton walk right by us. that was cool. there you go. nicole, thanks for joining us. keep up the fight. i hope it all works out for you, i hope they pass this bill, get something done. we haven t heard the last on president obama and rick perry until liz winstead and mike papantonio have their say. we love giving them that opportunity. that s next on the ed show.
hear from the people of that state? i think he s going to hear exactly what i just said. stop, get our governor, governor kasich, to stop worrying about collective bargaining rights, start working with us, stop working against us, and get our teachers back in classrooms where they belong. nicole gentile, when you found out you were going to be in the chamber tonight, what was that like? i ve been there, it is pretty exciting to see it all unfold. how did you feel about it tonight? it has been one of the most exciting days of my life. it s been fantastic. it was an honor to meet the president and the first lady. first time you re there, kind of cool to see everybody in person, isn t it? it is. when we were done, we got to see hillary clinton walk right by us. that was cool. there you go. nicole, thanks for joining us. keep up the fight. i hope it all works out for you, i hope they pass this bill, get something done. we haven t heard the last on president obama and rick perry
and we will go back to the scene of the crime. rick perry tossed out the red meat on social security. today, the republican basis eating it up. i want to applaud perry for hanging in and sticking with it. great to have you with us, folks. tremendous determination shown by the president to engage the congress tonight. i loved it. with a backdrop of 9.1% unemployment and completely dysfunctional congress, once again, the president s out there trying to get it done. he laid out his american jobs act. the president put a clear semi detailed package on the table and challenged the republicans to get in the game, to help america out, create jobs. president obama said there should be nothing controversial about his plan. there should be nothing commercial about this piece of legislation. everything in here is the kind of proposal that s been supported by both democrats and republicans, including many who sit here tonight. and everything in this bill will be paid for, everythin