our education situation right now. whitney, ultimately what do you want done here? come on, these are difficult economic times, as you know. what do you want done here? well, we ve had already like a billion dollars cut from the csu funding in the past two years, so i mean i know it s tough decisions, but thousands of eligible students are being turned away right now from the csu. basically they re the job force of the future, so if we want grads to get in the job force, they are it. let s see here, i think we ve got some full screens here. you ve got a 32% hike in student fees set to go into effect this fall, is that correct? yes. oh, no, we just had a 32% fee increase, yeah. yeah, okay. so here are the numbers. you paid, what, $1700 in 1999, then last year you paid $3,000. okay, you can see the increase there. now with this hike you re paying
and present a whole different load of facts that downer what he said during that primary debate? the thing about it, when you re governor, there are a lot of things taking place. so yes, the accomplishments the governor ticked off are true. at the same time, the democrats have a whole raft of ammunition that they ll bring up. they ll talk about how long term debt in the state increased 16% under his tenure. they re going to talk about how he vetoed a proposal to reduce class size in schools. so there s going to be, i think by the time this campaign is over, the u.s. citizens, the u.s. voter will be very familiar with a lot of minutiae of massachusetts government. it is interesting, for example, in massachusetts funding for higher education fell $145 million. tanch student fees rose 63% during romney s time in office. that s according to the boston globe as well. tuition rosa s well and we heard the government say that the education system in this country
parents can send their child to any public or charter school of their choice. anna marie, he says he will offer school choice to every student, no word on how he will do that, and this coming from a man who when he was governor in massachusetts caused student fees for higher education to go up by 63%. yeah. it is interesting for him to double down on this as a candidate. i think especially actually in relation to latino vote for his wishy-washiness on the dream act that is obviously important to latino voters to allow access to public higher education. you re right, like federal education dollars are not the dollars that are primarily spent per student in every state. money is usually comes from the states for education. he may want to change that. federal involvement in education hasn t turned out so well with the no child left behind act, so it is interesting also this is a case where the conservative line
speech on the economy and he says, my time spend leading businesses taught me that we need to hold every agency to a simple test. if something can be done more efficiently outside the federal government, that s where it belongs. saying nothing about if they are paying wages too high, we will i think there s a slight mistake being made because people are suggesting that the president has chosen to brand mitt romney like this. and stephanie cutter is right. he s allowed himself to be portrayed in this area. the problem is, when you look at his performance as governor of massachusetts, he was 47th in job creation. right. out of 50 states. student fees went up 63%. 14% cut in higher education budgets. so on economic and job creation issues, he s actually very, very weak. the one thing that he s actually very good on, what the health
david cameron really leading the way in advanced nations in adopting a preemtive us a tarity. owe bomb why as martin said, pushing forward with deficits over a trillion dollars as far as the eye can see, a lot of backlash on streets in london about student fees, about other cut back. how do you sense right now the mood is among the public to the cameron agenda? and can cameron succeed in getting obama to give a tacid endorsement to his own different approach? well that last part is really the $6 million question. i know that cameron s very much hoping, he keeps talking about the perfect alignment between him and obama and i think on foreign policy the differences, even on libya and afghanistan, are quite small. where as martin just pointed out on economics there is a kind to engulf. however you talk about the