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Now and bypass higher division later. this mom tweets from florida -- ive prepaid the college tuition for my two boys. floridas program freezes the cost at the time you sign up. i signed up for the plan this when they were 8 and 10 and now it is all paid up. a great feeling. what happens if your child doesnt go to the state school as planned? >> generally speaking if you dont use those accounts, if you dont use those resources for approved educational expenses, so tuition, room and board and any...

Questions about futures of other programs. what happens if your child doesnt go to the state school as planned? >> generally speaking, if you dont use those accounts for approved educational expensed that the university would charge, you can, in some states, get that to another sibling or family member. there is a portability factor. >> im very excited just to get going, um, to know the day ill start orientation, to know who my roommate is going to be and know that my mom and i will be able to a...

Keeps track of the sins youve already confessed to, so you dont have to repeat yourself. you can also personalize the list of sins youll be confessing. because lets face it, one size doesnt always fit all. thanks to portability, you can sin, confess and almost simultaneously go back to sinning, which is very convenient, for instance, if youre writing the tax code. probably the most important feature of the app, password protection so your political rivals dont find out how bad you really are. ...

So the same pressures been on businesses for years remain on businesses. some of them are worse. the kinds of things that david talked about are nice in theory but theyre not what the bill does. there is no portability of insurance on this bill. small business tax credits are temporary and go away. in the end youre going to see businesses who have mandates to provide health insurance, heavy reporting requirements like widely discussed 1099 mandate and this is all negative for wages and low-incom...

That does portability, preexisting conditions, covering kids -- fix this bill, change this bill, john boehner and the republicans have not put forward a fix. >> sean: yes they have. they put out their plans and the principles for which they are going to write the bill and how much it is going to save. pñxn repealed first so you can start at that point and start fresh this was rammed down americas throat. >> this is why weve gotten so far afield over the last week and a half since the tucson sh...

That people are nhappy with increasingly and the strength and fervor against the bill is diminishing. >> i would disagree with that. what you see from the polls is the majority of americans want this bill off the books. they do not want the government intrusion. what they do want to see is accountability for insurance companies. preexisting coverage allowances into the system. they want to see portability and liability reform. they want to see reforms. they do not like this version of it. they w...

Obama pivoted off the oil spill to ask americans to embrace a clean energy future. he called for a national mission to move from reliance on oil and spoke of the need to overcome a lack of courage and candor. but candor does require that we admit that much as we might wish otherwise, there are no known technologies that can move us off petroleum in the next 20 or even 30 years. while we may be able to find green sources of energy to power our homes and factories in the future, nuclear, solar, wi...

Hundreds of thousands after people. or people also talk about a dirty bomb spreading radioactive material, not killing people through the radiation, but contaminating large areas and putting them off-limits. >> but you might see a much smaller version of a nuclear explosion. >> something on the order of hiroshima. >> if any city, i guess, has to be prepared for this, its new york city. to what extent do dirty bombs, the potential of some kind of nuclear attack, to what extent does that keep you ...

For of retiree. now its one to one. the demographics of medicare all point to a shortfall. thats with the existing program. you add 30 million people to the system and i think youre going to be short of money again. and i think ultimately that will lead to government having to ration the care. >> so, what do you do about -- lets say i live in paducah, kentucky, i dont have health care. what do you do for people in your state not exactly among the most affluent states in the country. what do you ...

Republicans should go? is this where the energy should be channelled? >> i think repeal would be overreaching, a full repeal is not going to happen. thats the political reality of this. more so, there was not a discussion about the need for health care reform. republicans and democrats agree, this bill was overreaching, too expensive and put a lot of burden on small business. we can go on and on. in good faith to answer, david, kind of what hes alluding to there was not a good faith effort to br...