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tragic that we have record unemployment at a time when we also have a record deficit and a record debt. we are a global economy and that will not change. we will continue to buy from china and india if they can sell to us for less. items are going to be cheaper across the globe. how do you make america more competitive? one of the projects i have enjoyed the most is education. i think the focal point, to me, in 2011, a plan to do a lot of work on education issues. if we can hold educators accountable, if we can demand discipline among students, if we can reward those who do better an...

viewing area including in washington. then off to the south and west near manassas and dale city, some spots of heavy rain there. and a couple of spots off to the east across the chesapeake bay and in eastern maryland. current conditions being reported at reagan national, we have clouds, fog, humidy, the current temperature 70 degrees. a lot of clouds through the day. heaviest rainfall during the morning, maybe a thunderstorm or two -- thunderstorm or two. scattered showers late this afternoon and this evening. more on the forecast coming up in a little bit. steve, back to you. peo...

the gulf coast has, from the federal government in fines. about $10illion in flood insurance payments. and then a variety of infrastructure rebuilding grants. we were allocated finally the other day, five years after katrina, the federal government announced an additional $1.8 billion to rebuild our schools. when you have the numbers with a "b" in them, that is a lot of money. in contrast, we got $5 billion from the economic stimulus package. other states had similar amounts, but we got $40 billion for katrina rebuilding. obviously, the katrina stimulus is a significantly larger than...

i did ascesis on white of her company should share productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did the deepest which said it made economic sense. -- i did a thesis on why it made economic sense. there was not anything you could say i want to start here in move my way up, because it was a career people fell into rather than the planned for. i did not start immediately in arts management. i started in the business world. >> compares the kind of the arts we have available to us today that we have available to usdo we have more or less? >> much, much more. over the last 50 year...

is michael kaiser. >> michael kaiser, can you remember when you first got interested in the arts? >> i can exactly remember. i was four years old, my parents took me to see "the music man" with barbara cook and when she sang, "goodnight, my someone", she stood in the balcony of the porch of her home and all of the sudden you could see through the front of the house to a little girl playing the piano and i was captured by the magic of the theater. >> where did you live then? >> i lived in new rochelle, new york and about 25, 30 minute drive from new york city and once a year, my paren...