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Some many things like literacy. it is really awful where america arrived at, given where it was 30 or 40 years ago. >> yeah, and a lot of that is the function of government bureaucracy, employee unions. when you look at something like a company that signed a contract with georgia tech to take a $70,000 residential master's degree in computer science and turn it into a $7,000 on-line degree, that is a 90% reduction. imagine that in student loan costs. you have a program with a brand-new company which thinks they can take $170 billion out of the cost of medicare and medicaid. $157 billion over t...

Adopt that says there's a way forward that's very positive. i'll give you an example right now. >> please. >> at the budget conference today. there's a little firm called theranos, great story on its own, founded by a young woman who dropped out of stanford as a sophomore and took her trust fund and launched a company. they've developed microtechnology to analyze blood. they've lowered costs of blood diagnostics by 50%. now, that means for medicare and medicaid, you would take $157 billion out of the next ten years. i'm going to try as an experiment to get somebody to walk into the budget conf...

From the bottom of the ladder in some many things like literacy. it is really awful where america arrived at, given where it was 30 or 40 years ago. >> yeah, and a lot of that is the function of government bureaucracy, employee unions. when you look at something like a company that signed a contract with georgia tech to take a $70,000 residential master's degree in computer science and turn it into a $7,000 on-line degree, that is a 90% reduction. imagine that in student loan costs. you have a program with a brand-new company which thinks they can take $170 billion out of the cost of medicare ...

That's a lot. in 1960 that tripled to 3 billion a year. in 1990, 57 billion. right now, 850 billion. while there may be too many pictures of what folks had for lunch or too many sun sets or shoestagrams, there are more stunning pictures being taken. glimpses into what we see. joe brown at "wired" knows how best to capture that moment. >> people are getting better, which is nice. my facebook feed doesn't look so terrible. >> reporter: the most common mistake? >> using the flash. if you want to make them look like a vampire, shine a bright light. >> reporter: freeze some beauties. capture what u...

They took $47 billion and where do they get the money from? from the savings of legalizing the immigrants. that is to say the congressional office budget if you legalize 11 million people, it's $157 billion to the good the first ten years. what did they do? simple math. give me 175, let's spend it right away by putting border patrol. it's a massive government employment program. >> the border patrol agents aren't picking up people anymore. >> it seems crazy. >> i was there. what we're doing in the house of representatives, even the republicans in the house of representatives want the mccall bi...