dropout rate. i would love to have an iphone or ipad to reward these young men or women based upon their performance. i gree on attendance, buttist also got to be measured to graduation race and so you re not getting in trouble, you re passing. it s got to be some kind of type of metric. not just attendance. what happened in los angeles, they get about $32 per kid per day. and they were losing funding because of it. that s a big reason behind this. that money. and where s that money coming from, though? the $32 a day? that s not private money. that comes from the taxpayer. okay. susan. we should be taking this extra money and improving the actual experience of education. we re losing progrart programs,c programs. absolutely. there s so much deteriorating in our public school system. we should be putting more money into improving education, not giving them ipads. more money? susan first of all, i went to one of those private schools with taxpayer money and i had the
worst attendance record at the school. because the reason why this is a good idea is because in what i call the gameification of school, which is incentivize, we re already spending the money on the school. that s a sunk cost at this point for taxpayers. as woody allen said, 80% is just showing up. then you ve got to use other gamelike tricks. all right. gary b., you ve got the last word. we re fixing something that s broken. public education has not moved the needle one inch in the last 50 years. let s move on to a new model. how about a voucher system and private education? okay. that s got to be the last word. thanks, guys. and thanks to susan for joining us. he says he s a hero for revealing nsa snooping. he may have just revealed the one stock you may need to own now. there is a pursuit we all share. a better life for your family,
for union membership. gary b.? well, i think, john, basically summed it up when he said the speech is a crock. how do we know it s a crock? because just a short while ago, unions were against this immigration law. they didn t want the immigrants coming in and taking the jobs until, as a few people have pointed out, they said, huh. wait a second. we have 11 million undocumented immigrants that would be subject to u.s. labor laws including the right to unionize. and that s even before they seek permanent citizenship. so trumka is saying, wait a second. this is really actually good for us because it inflates our dying role. that s why we know it s a crock. okay, susan. look, you know, as i said before, this is an organization who is supposed to be on the side of workers. we have a 11 million undocumented workers in this country. because, you know, historically, there have been twohe
management, because of, you know, data centers, et cetera. so i think the biggest issue here is that we ve totally disregarded the fact that the internet businesses which to gary s point are one of the fastest growing and high-paying jobs in the country are really a threat outside the united states, much more than inside the united states. well, susan, you actually think this could be a benefit to the economy. i do. you know, i think we have lost a lot of the privacy around purchasing data already. and people are comfortable with that. you know, you buy something on the internet. jonas buys a dog toy on the internet, and then all of a sudden he s saying ads for kibbles pop up. that s because they re coming through your purchasing data and they re suggesting ads to you. we ve already gotten comfortable with some level of losing that privacy there. when you think about encryption, i think there could be a really strong boom in the crytion services. there are a lot of companies alread
they were at 40% of the public work force about 30 years ago. they re now at 6.6%. there s 7.3 million people according to bls in 2012, end of to 1 2012 in unions. you re talking about people coming from countries where unions are prevalent. this is 100% political. there s no other way to spin this. this is a matter of survival for these unions. susan, you agree with that? is that about growing the economy or growing the union base in this is absolutely about growing the economy. if you look at who else was there at that press conference and at that white house event, it was the head of the u.s. chamber of commerce, tom donahue. if you look at who s been supporting immigration reform, it s all the high-tech companies. businesses are crying out for this reform. they want it because they roh it s going to help them and the economy. there is a big difference in reform for the right reasons and what the unions are doing. immigration reform should be done. a lot of political leaders d