four. 0ver school meals to children in primary four. over the course of the parliament, we will extend free school meals to all primary school pupils all year round. we will provide every child with an electronic device and connection to get online, recognising this is as essential to education today as jotters and pencils were in years gone by. support for children and young people is one of the key themes running through this programme. 0ne themes running through this programme. one of the landmark achievements of the last parliament was the expansion of free childcare provision for three and four year olds and vulnerable two year oldses, in this parliament we will go much further. we will extend entitlement funding to all one and two years, starting with low income households and we will develop a system of wrap round childcare, offering care before and after school, and during the school holidays. this will be free for family tonnes lowest incomes and available at an affordable cos
defense. if you take a look at what is happening, though, we re asking our american military to do all the sacrificing. there was some suggestion that the president might actually touch the third rail of politics and do something about entitlement funding. he promised it. he was right on that message until just a couple of days ago. when you look at the amount of money we spend on defense versus the run away train that is entitlements, it is an eye-opener. as you can see, back in 1990, for point of reference, about 25 years ago, $300 billion was spent on defense. about $568 billion was spent on entitlements. fast forward to 2010, about $700 billion on the defense of this nation while close to $200 rather that s a hard number to read right there. steve, i want to point out that first couple of bars should say 1990, as
and accuses mitt romney and paul ryan of undermining the health care program. the ryan plan, aarp says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors. experts say ryan s voucher plan could raise future retirees costs more than $6,000. that ad has been running in eight states. it s nearly a week since romney announced ryan as his running mate. we ve been spending all of our time talking about that medicare plan. ryan has been in virginia, north carolina, wisconsin, iowa, colorado, nevada, and ohio, basically hitting every swing state that there is in the country. he s back in virginia today before heading to florida with his mom, of all people, tomorrow going to the villages, the huge retirement home and very popular republican campaign stop. in the last week, the ryan pick has, in a lot of ways, fundamentally changed the political ad conversation. it s away from jobs and the economy to medicare an entitlement funding. now you can argue whether that s