particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up. i mean, it s not an option for us to just sit by and do nothing. if you re a progressive who cares about the integrity of social security and medicare, and medicaid, and believes that it is part of what makes our country great, that we look after our seniors and look after the most vulnerable, then we have an obligation to make sure that we make those changes that are required to make that are sustainable over the long term. if you re a progressive that cares about head start and student loan programs and medical research and infrastructure, we will not be able to make progress on those areas if we haven t got even our fiscal house in order. so, the argument that i m making to my party is, the values we
that starting in 2013 young people who are going to college will not have to pay more than 10% of their income in repayment, and that obviously helps to relieve the burden on a lot of students, because, look, i m a guy who had about $60,000 worth of debt when i graduated from law school and michelle had 60,000 so we were paying a bigger amount every month than our mortgage, and we did that for eight, ten years, so i i know how burdensome this can be. i do think that the universities still have a role in trying to keep their costs down, and i think that it s important, even if we ve got better student loan programs, more grants, if the costs keep on going up, then we ll never have enough money. you ll never get enough help to avoid taking on these huge debts, and so working with university presidents to try to figure out where can you cut
hasn t done what he was supposed to do to focus on growing jobs. 16 months of unemployment at about 9.5%, you have got a problem. so, yes, the tea party is reflecting something that i think is much deeper than a single political movement. eric: senator, mr. obama after signing the tax compromise into law he said the republicans are going to have a fight on their hands coming up in the next year and the year after. what did he mean by of that? if he meant that he was going to keep going down the path that he was going down with government takeover of student loan programs, health care, general motors. that i think he has got a problem because it tells me he is simply not listening to the american public. listen, he was dragged quicking and screaming into signing off and making sure that nobody s taxes were raised. i think that was a mistake. bill clinton would have had his arms around republicans smiling saying i respect my friends on the other side of the aisle. we disagree on cert
hasn t done what he was supposed to do to focus on growing jobs. 16 months of unemployment at about 9.5%, you have got a problem. so, yes, the tea party is reflecting something that i think is much deeper than a single political movement. eric: senator, mr. obama after signing the tax compromise into law he said the republicans are going to have a fight on their hands coming up in the next year and the year after. what did he mean by of that? if he meant that he was going to keep going down the path that he was going down with government takeover of student loan programs, health care, general motors. that i think he has got a problem because it tells me he is simply not listening to the american public. listen, he was dragged quicking and screaming into signing off and making sure that nobody s taxes were raised. i think that was a mistake. bill clinton would have had his arms around republicans smiling saying i respect my friends on the other side of the aisle. we disagree on cert
hasn t done what he was supposed to do to focus on growing jobs. 16 months of unemployment at about 9.5%, you have got a problem. so, yes, the tea party is reflecting something that i think is much deeper than a single political movement. eric: senator, mr. obama after signing the tax compromise into law he said the republicans are going to have a fight on their hands coming up in the next year and the year after. what did he mean by of that? if he meant that he was going to keep going down the path that he was going down with government takeover of student loan programs, health care, general motors. that i think he has got a problem because it tells me he is simply not listening to the american public. listen, he was dragged quicking and screaming into signing off and making sure that nobody s taxes were raised. i think that was a mistake. bill clinton would have had his arms around republicans smiling saying i respect my friends on the other side of the aisle. we disagree on cert