can challenge, can motive ate the kids. you say you start with problem number one. we have a massive push on end of year testing. how is that a problem? it s a problem because all across our country, we re telling kids you need to learn this, it might be on a test. we ve narrowed the curriculum instead of having art and music and science and social studies that makes us human, we re focused on math and reading. we ve narrowed the curriculum. teachers aren t allowed to teach the way they need to teach. they re being told to teach to a test. you say shrinking school budgets that we have talked about a lot on this show and low teacher salaries and teachers facing classrooms of 35 kids, how can that be effective? it s a challenge and people are overworked and stressed. they re being told you ve got to prepare these kids for this test and there s so much stress. now, this one i love. teachers don t know how to utilize technology. what do you mean by that? we have so much technolog
spending cuts in ten years. reid would hike the debt by $2.7 trillion now and mandate an equal amount of cuts. but the congressional budget office says the boehner plan would trim spending by $850 billion, and the reid plan by $2.2 trillion. boehner went back to the board and postponed the vote that was supposed to happen today. reid s plan can t pass the house, and not only is boehner s plan doomed in the senate, a great many house republicans don t like it either. so what happens now? well, time marches on. a never-before-seen default on u.s. debt and obligations could be just six days away, but potentially just as bad would be a downgrade of debt, and a downgrade that would say we are not reliable as we used to be. that could up the cost for borrowing for all of us. here is richard quest on cnn international, and the smart money still says default will be averted, but downgrade, is it inevitable, are foreign investors alarmed? no, it s not inevitable. nothing is inevitab
talking about is at the state level. i mean, she is a school high school counselor at a small school, and there are many layoffs going out amongst the school districts in wisconsin right now. so it s a little bit different situation than the way you described it. you know, at this point i think, you know, what many people are waiting for is tuesday. that s when the governor will give a briefing on all the budget. senator fitzgerald yeah, it s a difficult situation for my family. there s no doubt about it. is your wife part of the problem? no. my wife s not part of the problem. teachers aren t part of the problem. what we re simply looking for is a different way of paying for government. for almost 40 years since the legislature created collective
bargaining the tables have been tipped in favor of the unions. and we re just trying to pull that back a little bit. we re trying to bring that level playing field back so that mayors and school boards and county board members can get a fair shake when they walk up to the table. that s really what this is about right now. senator erpenbach, you just heard senator fitzgerald say that teachers aren t part of the problem, which i m sure makes for more domestic tranquility at home. but this has been, it seems, nothing but an attack on the collective bargaining rights of teachers unions, of other public employee unions in the state of wisconsin. the label is that they are the problem, they re our problem in the state budget. well, they aren t the problem in the state budget at all. obviously, two sides sit down and negotiate. democrat governors and
school districts in wisconsin right now. so it s a little bit different situation than the way you described it. you know, at this point i think, you know, what many people are waiting for is tuesday. that s when the governor will give senator fitzgerald a briefing on all the budget. senator fitzgerald yeah, it s a difficult situation for my family. there s no doubt about it. is your wife part of the problem? no. my wife s not part of the problem. teachers aren t part of the problem. what we re simply looking for is a different way of paying for government. for almost 40 years since the legislature created collective bargaining the tables have been tipped in favor of the unions. and we re just trying to pull that back a little bit. we re trying to bring that level playing field back so that mayors and school boards and county board members can get a fair shake when they walk up to the table. that s really what this is about right now. senator erpenbach, you just h