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Democrats aren't actually interested -- >> listen, listen -- >> here we go again. >> everybody else gets their point but the republican gets caught off. let me finish my point. >> go ahead. >> my point is republicans have said and the president opposed a voucher program in the district of columbia that actually helped low income people. why? because of the teachers union. i'm not going to sit and listen to you all and say republicans aren't willing to spend money on education. >> i didn't say -- >> you said that -- >> what i said was there has to be meaningful solutions. parent/teacher and stu...

Where they might get some hearing on this and that's because, i mean, later cases, school vouchering and privatization of the schools really took off after brown v board of ed was decided and a lot of people decided they didn't want their kid to go to public school anymore because there was going to be a mixture of different races in the public schools and so they started to do these voucher programs, basically shutting down public schools to open up private ones more to their liking and said he no, no, no, you're not allowed to do that and so i think that's going to be the argument that has m...

Voucher programs. with respect to social security, we should look at that but not as part as deficit reduction. that's been dealt with on its own merits. but, i guess the short answer to your question is, all of these issues need to be discussed. we need to remember unless we ask higher-income individuals to contribute to reducing the deficit. everyone else gets much harder. seniors on medicare get harder. our investment in science and research gets hurt and that hurts our overall economic competitive. all of these issues, i think, are to be discussed. two pieces, one, we got to resolve the im...

Charter schools but they are a laboratory of innovation but i have to make the choice -- >> you are for your idea choice, which is you've got to go to private out a parochial school or another kind of private school that you can go with a voucher or what we call in d.c., an opportunity scholarship? why should we let kids opt out of public school? >> there's a role for voucher programs. there's a role for the parochial schools, but chris, you know, vouchers and charter schools are not a panacea. we have enough research done that shows us that kids don't necessarily outperform public school kids...

All on the line. in a passionate speech today, he made it kris kal clear who's fighting for america's seniors. and he lashed out at congressman ryan's radical proposal to gut medicare. but folks, someone else suddenly seems unsure of the ryan plan too. someone who wouldn't think. >> doesn't your budget also kind of play very major savings on medicare for the same amount? >> only president obama raids $716 billion from medicare. >> you make savings. how much? >> the point -- i joined the romney ticket. >> the romney ticket. huh? someone suddenly isn't so proud of his bold plan that turns medica...