advantage of this new law. paul: so there s going to be an education process involved. sure. but the specific trigger they use will matter. a lot of the turn around models don t have a very good track record here. but down a school, however, and bringing in one of the high performing networks, like a democracy, that has a much more successful track record. and the charter in this case, david, is a good track record. it s been around for a number of years and the schools are high performing. paul: thank you both. we have to take one more break. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. nobody in my family ever had a heart attack. if anything, i thought i d get hit by a bus, but not a heart. all of a sudden, it s like an earthquake going off in your body. my doctor put me on an aspirin regimen to help protect my life. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. to my friends, i say,
quo. as far as the payroll tax goes, i m skeptical. it s temporary. it s on the employee side so the worker who saves the money, that will put more money in their pocket. does it give the business any more incentive to hire? not only that, i don t think it does and not only that i think this is evidence to show that when people see a temporary increase in their income, they don t necessarily go out and spend that, euse that to pay down debt and get ready where when the income goes back down and the fact that it s temporary i don t think necessarily means it s going to spending and consumption. okay, steve, a the lot of people are saying, even some on the right, that this is a real change of intellectual course for the administration. is it a real supply side, tax cutting strategy? well, first of all, paul, i d like to make a suggestion that we expunge the term stimulus, because the term has
pushing that stone up the mountain for a long time. what do you make of this particular reform? well, to the extent that it puts more chases in the hands of parents and kids, it s all good. i mean, the problem with public education today is that the teachers unions have a vice grip. paul: on local governments. on local governments and the balance of power is out of whack here. the system is set up to benefit the adults that run the system versus the kids, that are supposed to be why are bad schools closing because it means fewer jobs, and the concerns of the kids are secondary. paul: right. so to the extent that it gives parents the ability to make choices, it s all good. i mean, a lot of it, i think, will depend on the trigger that they decide to use. i mean, and if they decide to use it, under no child left behind, parents had the option of transferring kids out of failing schools since 2002. very few have done it. so, first you ll need parents to take the initiative to ta
came from and we ve had some good evidence on the page that shows we probably added one or two percentage points to the unemployment rate because we re giving people so long on unemployment benefits. paul: they claim it will boost consumption somehow and therefore will help the economy. mary, politically why are the house democrats so angry about this? well, this is religion. and if you notice taxes on the rich are a relegs? yeah, they keep remeeting over and over again that this is somehow giving the very rich in the country some kind of special break. i mean, i think the question we have to ask in terms of understanding how good it will be for the economy is does it put more money in the hantdz hands of the private sector. and that means that actually it s a deal probably worth taking? yeah, i think that that s the positive. the negative is the temporary aspect of it. right. businesses do not make decisions based on one year out, and particularly in
impact on the prosecution be if you get a comment like last week by defense secretary robert gates, well some of the criticism of this is overwrought, some fears about the damage done by the release of these diplomatic cables is overwrought? that would hurt the prosecution potentially? it would hurt the prosecution potentially and the government would use it, but it would not, certainly would not bar the prosecution. paul: now shall the espionage act has never been used before to my knowledge and correct me if i m wrong, as far as i looked back on it, never been used against a publisher, not even world war ii when the chicago tribune disclosed that we had suggested that we had broken the japanese code after the battle at midway, fdr decided that administration not to prosecute. why would you make an exception in this case? wl, the reason that they decided not to prosecute in world war ii is not because the statute didn t apply, but rather because the japanese hadn t picked up on