i m having an absolute i m having so much fun. so we go into this town hall and i almost lost my breath. why? because there are so many people in there. it was just like, wow. i mean this is amazing. i just wish my wife had been here to see this. they re just great people. i don t know. it s kind of emotional in a way. okay. so you talk a lot about the fact that your faith guides you. and specifically it guided you in your decision to guide medicaid dollars. you talked about if you die you re not going to be asked at the pearly gates did you help the people who needed it most. beyond that, where does that principle guide you and your policy? it relates to like, you know, early childhood education, poor kids. people in prison, giving them a chance to get their lives back if they want to earn their way there. but let me say there the medicate decision was not i didn t read a bible to decide
to school with poor kids. that means the schools are like an echo chamber, and they re making the problem worse. and we see disparities also with higher education, of course. if you are born to a less-well-off family, you want to go to college, there s a good chance in modern era where you ll have massive student loans. it could be $30,000, $40,000 in debt as you begin adulthood. that means it s harder to save for a home harder to save for retirement. it also might mean it s harder for you to pay for your own children s education and the cycle continues. what s the answer there? well first of all, it s important to see how deep that problem is. one way of doing it is to see which better predicts who completes college, how smart they are in terms of test scores or how rich their parents are. the startling fact is that dumb rich kids if i can put it that way, are more likely to finish college than smart, poor kids. that violates the fundamental american dream. that s it right there
does is take into account the reality that black and latino students do not have equal opportunity. but that s an opinion. that s an opinion and it s also subjective and the 14th amendment is not subjective. it basically says all measures will be treated equally under the law. look, counselor, you know what you are arguing is theoretical. you know it because it is all subjective. no it not theoretical. bill, just come to the city of detroit. oh, stop. been to the city of detroit many times. being tweeted equally. counselor, it s tenet. they are not. no, it s reality, bill. and what the court did and what you are doing is just ignoring the reality black and latino students face in this country and let me finish. what s wrong with what you are saying is. this every group in this society, poor kids, veterans, rural kids and everybody can and does go to
does is take into account the reality that black and latino students do not have equal opportunity. but that s an opinion. that s an opinion and it s also subjective and the 14th amendment is not subjective. it basically says all measures will be treated equally under the law. look, counselor, you know what you are arguing is theoretical. you know it because it is all subjective. no it not theoretical. bill, just come to the city of detroit. oh, stop. been to the city of detroit many times. being tweeted equally. counselor, it s tenet. they are not. no, it s reality, bill. and what the court did and what you are doing is just ignoring the reality black and latino students face in this country and let me finish. what s wrong with what you are saying is. this every group in this society, poor kids, veterans, rural kids and everybody can and does go to
to me what this says is the state is saying this is a bunch of poor kids, i wash my hands. well, that s certainly the impression. you know, if we can t realize that these kids, first of all, they re they have one hand tied behind their back as it is, they live in a community that s impoverished, they re struggling to get through the school year as it is. if we can t realize these kids need to be in school more than any other group of kids you can imagine, they need to finish their school year so that in september they can start where they left off. this way, they may never get this six-week period back. there s 25 seniors who look like in a deal are going to graduate. but it s still unclear where the funding of the graduation ceremony is going to come from. they re fund-raising now. congressman, we re going to stay on this story. thank you. thank you very much. this weekend, there was a shooting at a mother s day parade with 19 casualties, two of them children. the natural re