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Traditional colleges and who was moved over to vo tech areas. that is one area we have to really have a radical overhaul of our education system because we need vo tech -- over the next decade we need vo tech schools to prosper. >> that's part of the solution. the biggest part of the solution i felt for a long time is we have to listen to jack knick colsd ni nickolson's line, you can't handle the try. we'll get parents more involved in a good way. everybody doesn't get a trophy. we put too much blame and burden on the teachers yet the school day has to be extended i would

Get a degree in pardon me in mass communications and it doesn't prepare them for anything. you go to an 18-month course at a community college, high-tech factory of some kind and learn computer skills, it's a different world. >> high tech or vo tech. >> at lo of c lot of countries learned how to do this. serious programs from how to go to school to work with apprenticeship and training and so forth. we kind of throw young people out on the market and they're not able to swim right now in this. it's either the debt or no jobs. >> i know a young man in montana this summer who told me, i said wha...

Congressman, eric cantor, thanks for being with us. >> good to be on. >> there is just this split in washington, d.c. i mean, it's a system that our founders set up. >> i think that what we're going to see in the next nine months really, joe, some stuff done on the margins. the big core issues. it's very, very unlikely to get that done because that's all about the fall quite honestly. and i'm very interested in the worker training program because that's a big issue across the country from the ground up and the bottom down. community colleges, i've been saying if you can invest in them, go long...

I don't want to be preach and i'm so sick of everybody telling us what the solution is. it seemed like, when parents sit down to talk about what is a realistic goal for my kid? you u n't look at a college education as this thing and everything else is an alternative. and expect to get a well rounded work force. come out of something so lopsided. >> good point. i remember when we used to have vo tech schools and stuff like that and i learned how to weld in high school. >> right. every high school used to have vo tech and now it's very, very hard to find. >> what are you doing in the off season?...