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Position they have taken is simply too difficult and that breeds this kind of radicalism. >> and here's the thing that might make them back down. particularly in one aspect of the bill, which is medicaid expansion. for mostly the working poor and its version of medicaid that supreme court decision, the states have the option of opting into the medicaid expansion, for mostly the working poor and expanded version of medicaid eligibility or not. and we've seen a lot of states opt out. states that opt out of medicaid expansion will lose access to billions of loss in federal dollars, increased stat...

And that breeds this kind of -- >> and here's the thing that might make them back down. particularly in one aspect of the bill, which is medicaid expansion. because of the other part of that supreme court decision, the states have the option of opting into the medicaid expansion, for mostly the working poor and expanded version of medicaid eligibility or not. and we've seen a lot of states opt out. states that opt out of medicaid expansion will lose access to billions of loss in federal dollars, increased state spending will be about $1 billion. it's looking like an accounting disaster. do you...

Themselves of are too severe for them to back down from the underlying philosophical position is simply too difficult and that breeds this kind of -- >> and here's the thing that might make them back down. particularly in one aspect of the bill, which is medicaid expansion. because of the other part of that supreme court decision, the states have the option of opting into the medicaid expansion, for mostly the working poor and expanded version of medicaid eligibility or not. and we've seen a lot of states opt out. 2:00 states that opt out of medicaid expansion will lose access to billions of l...

Invested and why isn't it working? >> when i look at dollars spent per student, it's down in most states since 2008. you're talking about a longer trend line that you say is going up like this. when i look at per state spending, those red lines are the amount down that it is. the only ones on the plus side are tennessee to north dakota. and that's since 2008. >> does that measure stimulus and federal money? >> so as far as i understand these are, in fact, all dollars spent per student in these localities. now that drop is recent over the longer trend line that you're suggesting. let me ask you...

Hold up. in the meantime, the economy saw its fair share of ups and downs. this chart shows gdp on a yearly basis, those years extending down were recessions. the average growth rate since world war ii is a respectable 3.25%. we'd be very happy to have that today. i spoke with the lieutenant governor of texas, david dewhurst this week in austin. he's probably the most powerful man in texas and the most powerful lieutenant governor in the country because he writes the legislation, controls the budget and is head of the texas senate. texas has been trying to lure companies away from california a...