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Thats good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. couldve had a v8. a college education means employment. the unemployment rate for those with a high school education almost double that figure. so oxley, support for higher education and thus student loans. some republicans are outright dismissive of the utility of student loans. theres the paul ryan budget which by one estimate would cut $170 billion over ten years from the pell grant program. and theres this...

People in the medicare program get coverage for drugs and dont have to pay so much out of their pockets over time. that will go away. it would mean a program that would take away a lot of the gains that senior citizens have achieved and are achieving through the affordable care ablth. >> politically speaking, should ryan be hanging his head on this? >> hes got some reason to think he should get it and support from the private insurance industry. they want this plan. so theyll be putting a lot of...

Elections. in defending that plan today he pointed out the year and a half until the next election. >> so we have a year and a half, and i believe in a year and a halfs time, the truth will get out. the facts will be known. when i do town hall meetings and discuss this with seniors at senior centers, once they understand the facts, they want these solution. >> the kinds ever solutions that ryan is talking about are in his new web video full of highly polished graphics. in the video ryan doesnt t...

I want to start with that clip from the ryan video. patients would have coverage options like those enjoyed by members of congress spp that true? if so, it sounds pretty sweet. >> the problem is, they dont really want to have choices. they want to have a program that works for them that helps to control costs and will be there when they need it. i dont think that any senior citizen wants to think that when they are sick, when they are really needing to make decisions about what medicare provider...

Election influenced any of the republicans not to vote for this budget? was it really that big of a deal to them? >> i dont think it was just the election last night. i think its poll after poll and i think its the meetings that senators and congresspeople are something with their constituents. the bottom line is that what the ryan budget would do immediately in terms of the doughnut hole in ten years for everybody else who will get medicare at that point is to decimate a program that is working...

Ryan has claimed the voucher program or as they call it in this plan, premium support is not really a fair way to describe his plan. so break it down for us. is it fair? what does it really do when we talk about it to the medicare system? >> well, i think hes trying to get us into a game of semantics. what it is is a plan that would begin privatize the program. it would -- the government would pay premium dollars to private insurance companies. premium dollars coming and also coming from america...

The 2012 congressional elections. in defending that plan today he pointed out the year and a half until the next election. >> so we have a year and a half, and i believe in a year and a halfs time, the truth will get out. the facts will be known. when i do town hall meetings and discuss this with seniors at senior centers, once they understand the facts, they want these solution. >> the kinds ever solutions that ryan is talking about are in his new web video full of highly polished graphics. in ...

Talk about it to the medicare system? >> well, i think hes trying to get us into a game of semantics. what it is is a plan that would begin privatize the program. it would -- the government would pay premium dollars to private insurance companies. premium dollars coming and also coming from american taxpayers. they would be capped at a certain amount so over the course of time, you would be facing that senior citizens would be paying far more out of their own pockets than they are now. >> so the...

Of congress enjoy today. >> lets bring in and say good evening to wendell potter, also a contributor to the huffington post. good to have you on with us. i want to start with that clip from the ryan video. patients would have coverage options like those enjoyed by members of congress spp that true? if so, it sounds pretty sweet. >> the problem is, they dont really want to have choices. they want to have a program that works for them that helps to control costs and will be there when they need it...

Need proof? the fine folks over at finney.com put together a debt clog with the total student loan debt. take a look at that number. what does this mean? what could be done about it? the publisher and also the president of mk consulting inc. hi, mark. glad youre with us. such an important issue to so many people. why has all of this debt continued to climb so high? >> because grants have not kept pace with the costs. the pell grant program was cut. the $8 billion is going to result in an increas...