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70 billion dollars which is a 2.5% increase over last year. this is already over in 2009, the educating department got a one time bonus of 100 billion dollars out of the stimulus. all together, in his four years in office, if all this comes true, obama will have spent as much in one term as the bush administration spent in two terms and bush was hardly ing -- hardly shirking educating spending. the issue is they are not helping. i dont know how many more years we have to go on throwing more and ...

President obamas education secretary saying class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it off, give me and my wife a choice of putting our kids with a great teacher of 28 or mediocre teacher of 23, i know what i would choose every time. so, james class sizes, -- >> i dont know fit is true or not, the absolute conventional -- wisdom in the education establishment im sure this view is shared by many in the obama department of educating -- >> including arne duncan apparently. >> yes recen...

It? >> i think the ad is fairly preposterous. most parents and people who went through the school system understand the class size is irrelevant if you make smaller, you need more teachers increase the size of the teachers unions which any governor will tell you is the most potent democratic force in his state thats why obama wants to increase the size of the -- to decrease the size of the classes. >> in chicago on class sizes too some of the best schools are the ones with the largest class size...

View is shared by many in the obama department of educating -- >> including arne duncan apparently. >> yes recent research shows class sizes are not the big determinant of performance. parents are skeptical you can argue about how big is too big. if romney is questioning the link between class size and performance, hes in the company of like i said, i would bet most of the obama employees on this issue. >> how does romney respond to this ad or should he ignore it? >> i think the ad is fairly pre...

Hardly ing -- hardly shirking educating spending. the issue is they are not helping. i dont know how many more years we have to go on throwing more and more money at this issue isnt improving student performance. those things have been flat many we need to get more innovative thats what the romney campaign needs to focus on. >> class size has been a dispute. rick hess quoted arnie duncan president obamas education secretary saying class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it off, give...

Hardly ing -- hardly shirking educating spending. the issue is they are not helping. i dont know how many more years we have to go on throwing more and more money at this issue isnt improving student performance. those things have been flat many we need to get more innovative thats what the romney campaign needs to focus on. >> class size has been a dispute. rick hess quoted arnie duncan president obamas education secretary saying class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it off, give...

Medicare extension for prescription drugs and voted against the simpson/bowles deal, most important deficit reduction bipartisan package we have seen. he then tried to undermine it, when obama put much of that on the table during the debt negotiation last august he tried to undermine that as well. look, you know, jimmy is a better theologian than i am. when you look at how biden and -- ryan will match up, sure ryan is a good debater and articulate spokesman but look at what biden says. look at o...

Individual instruction than we have ever seen. >> shannon: juan that, sounds counter intuitive. class size goes up, but this superintendent says its working. >> i am so glad you played that piece. a lot of people will say, i love teachers and i want to make sure that we are not doing away with teachers. thats not the issue. as you just heard from dr. edwards in north carolina, what this does, it empowers teachers and gives them a valuable tool so they can know, that juan williams, he is not so g...

If im a single mom living in ohio. one size. he has gone from 18 to 14 in his class size because they had to cut teachers because of the budget crisis. why does the national debt matter to me and my son. i get why stimulus makes it better, why is the debt bad? >> the debt is bad because the day will come when the people who are paying the bills, a lot of them foreign central banks, will say we doubt your ability to pay us back and were going to demand much higher rates of interest. something a l...

im carol costello. we begin with chick-fil-a appreciation day. and whats become depending on who you talk to a fight for religious freedom. today, hundreds of thousands say theyll show support for chick-fil-as coo dan cathy and his stand against same-sex marriage. that includes evangelicals, including the reverend billy graham, whos in poor health. a staffer will deliver chick-fil-a to his home. george, good morning. >> reporter: carol, good morning. according to chick-fil-a, today wil...