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Let's get a career structure tor teachers and make them the rock stars. >> there are ironies with this, the teachers unions are furious with president obama and the education department and the whole race to the top agenda because they feel too much pressure is being put, and the president has been clear in saying he thinks part of what needs to be done with education reform in our country is that you pay teachers for performance, the teachers who have good outcomes with students should be the ones who become the rock stars, as opposed to simply having seniority and people locked in by union r...

>> we should be. >> what was the foot on our throat. >> i think the businesses -- we have talked about this. i think businesses are in a holding pattern right now. they are expanding their output. they are not hiring workers. they are worried about the political agenda in washington. the new taxes coming on january 1, 2011, new regulation and labor rules and union rules. a lot of what washington has done has slowed the progress because i looked at the numbers the last time, when we inspector a really deep recession was 1981 and 1982. when we came out of that recession, the first year of that r...

Hoping we would get up to 5%. why it is at 3%? what was the foot on our throat we didn't reach the 5%? >> i think the businesses are still in a holding pattern now. expanding output, not hiring. they are worried a little about the political agenda in washington. new taxes that are coming next year, some of the new regulations, some of the labor rules and union rules. i think a lot of what washington has done has slowed the progress. i looked at the number us the last time when this deep recession was in 1981 and 1982. when we came out of of that recession the first year of that recovery we had...

Education. i think we need more of those things not fewer of them. >> and how do you get around the union rules and the political power of some of the constituencies who don't want to see change? >> there has to come a time when everybody comes together and does right by the kids. if it's always about the adults or the unions and so forth, the kids will suffer more than they need to. the families will suffer more than they need to. rahm emanuel is famous for saying, you know, disaster is too important to waste and crisis is too important to waste. if we have the kind of economic crisis we're l...

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