What happened is we rescued the School Systems. That is not an exaggeration. We did it. What ended up happening . Not totally because of that but now we have the highest Graduation Rate of over 80 for the First Time Ever and we have a dropout rate among blacks and hispanics that has dropped over 25 since you guys started running the show. Nobody knows that. It is like a tree falling in the forest. Anybody come up to you and say lately, thank you, you did a great job on the dropout rate . Thank you, you rescued my school . We upgraded our infrastructure. The largest public works project contained within a recovery act in history. Bigger than eisenhowers interstate highway program. 15,000 new projects, 42,000 miles of new roads, and 7700 bridges. 700 Drinking Water systems upgraded. I could go on and on. Providing broadband across america and in the process, we created hundreds of thousands of jobs just doing the project and it created a virtuous cycle. When youre building the bridge in
The most immediate problem is to get rid of of a terror base state. Gotcha. That is gotcha. That is isis. Longterm problems also exists. The challenge is not to switch from region to region, but to understand the things we must do and separate them from the things we probably cannot do. That is a novel challenge in that magnitude for the current generation. Mr. Chairman, would it be possible if dr. Schultz, give us your idea what you think our most greatest concerns are right now . Of coarse i agree with what henry has said. Let me put some additional points on it. I think we tend to underestimate the impact of the information and communication age. It changes the problem of government. People know what is going on everywhere. They can communicate with each other and organize, and they do. You have diversity everywhere. It has been a ignored or suppressed. Remember the problem in iraq with maliki was yet to govern over diversity, but wanted a snap it out. He didnt understand how to gov
Police or here in the federal government has got to be protection. Safetynd security of the american citizens and of those free dompredom loving people around the world who love the values. You can be responsible in doing that and make responsible reasonable expectations of how to streamline the way that we provide that security through the department of defense and other mechanisms out this. That has to be at the top of the list. And then to for a good part goes back to the theme of what i mentioned. To me to tackle the challenges take money otherwise spent here or duck tated dictated here and send it back to the states and local governments where it is much more accountable to the regular taxpayer. Give examples. Medicaid is an issue we talked about many times before. Paul ryan talked about it in block grants. Give it back to the states what we do in wisconsin is different than new york or california or texas or even illinois. Highway not empower innovators at the local and state lev