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For over this past year that were passed. so why are the tax increases not going to drain -- be a drain on gdp, but these cuts will be? >> well, i think it's the combination. it's not just the sequestration. it's the other fiscal fights that we've had and that we're going to have. so it's this combination. and uncertainty of this kind is very bad, as you know, for all kinds of business investment and for consumer decisions. that's going to have a knock-on effect on employment. employers have been very reluctant to take people back on since 2008. so we're compounding those problems in a way tha...

This shower curtain. the mediation of consumer in health care with the whole world of advisors who have degrees and who have knowledge that you don't have, right? you're dependent upon their expertise to make these consumer decisions and they're making these decisions and we have this bizarre triangularization and i want to lay that out as a principal of how this market funks because it functions so differently than other markets. i want to play this great clip because one thing that is really interesting here is people don't like the status quo and they also don't like the new poll, but they ...

>> well, it's designed, i think, to make it easier frankly to make one of the biggest consumer decisions you'll ever make, which is where you go to college and where you spend your college money. there have been some concerns recently about g.i. bill, military tuition assistance. and how people are making decisions how to spend that. and the marketing that's being done to this. this is really about accountability and helping people as we say at my bureau know before they owe. >> and give us a sense -- i know that the president and the first lady will be making an announcement today at fort ste...

And other places to do more. the hope is that people are going to support institutions like that, companies that are making a difference. we saw citigroup do it earlier this week. we have seen dick's sporting goods do it. this is part of this movement. these kids and their parents who shop, are going to start to make commercial decisions, consumer decisions to support the companies that are doing the right thing. joining me from parkland, florida is sergio rosenbach. the family is marching today in parkland. sergio, thank you for joining us. tell me why it is so important for your family to ta...