and bill burton
and with uh... politics u_s_a_ action
right to be priorities u_s_a_ action
dot org
is on the line senior strategist the priorities u_s_a_ action
former deputy white house
press secretary of in president obama's administration
and i see bill that uh... you used to work for for up
of that our word of god
well you know that
yeah i will be john kerry dick gephardt tom harkin
it's it's remarkably there on the stand for quite a while
failed then welcome part of the program the
uh...
the the old palm up
plan to consolidate student loans and day there's you know one of the talking
points on the right is that
the the ninety nine movement is made up largely of young people in students who
are unemployed were hearing i get a lot of calls to the program for people
saying i was just at the ninety nine movement for this little town of adults
are even some big johnson missing you know has a lot of people there in the
fifties and sixties there's a lot of boomers there as well and and you
thirties and forties but there really is a problem would student loans and and
young people in this country right now being wiped out economically before the
germans started their first job
happen you don't have to pick it up and the county parker mcpherson square in
d_c_ in order to killed a kind of anxiety that those her car
uh... dement rate it's about this tomorrow and think about their mortgages
it's about jobs
you know that the pope but a lot of offending two people are feeling all
across this country and
uh... to poor of the folks who have
tried to pay that they uh... they don't represent a broader
uh... sense of uh... anxiety or anger out there i think they're just wrong
yeah
of it was deliberately withhold also from uts a ac in any case priorities
action u_s_a_
is uh...
our priorities u_s_a_ action dot org is the website
do you have
put out an ad about this you're taking on this issue
attract okay tell us about where we wanted to do and this is a this is uh...
so we are to groups
just that
educate their command of people really are about one of particular three action
which is uh...
super packet dedicated to maine to the present gets reelected and then the
other is prayer do effect
inequitable
with an organization that's dedicated to fighting for a progressive values like
education that's the group from which we actually did that sad today because we
wanted a
make sure that tonight
republicans at the debate in michigan have to talk about this radical right
wing budget
that would
drastically cut
hell grant
in order so that they can give more tax breaks to the wealthiest more tax breaks
to well cos and keep them places system that
it not working for the middle class
today in the financial times the last page is the likes column which is good
for any kind summary column of
the greatest minds the financial times anthony tops our story student loans
know that they're going to hit a billion about two billion trillion dollar level
and they know pundits gonna bubble but another b_ word applies boondoggle and
with american and a graduates amassing twenty five thousand in marriage debt
and ten percent of former most amelia burden certainly real the bottom line is
a very into the article addresses the financial times of england although they
have more readers the u_s_ and they do in you kate because
i think the uh... the wall street journal since murder to the members turn
into a rag but in case they say
very and demanding more educational bang for the buck is academic and they talk
about you know why have we not put this money to direct public education
spending which has been cut sharply and to be edge i think this is a really
important question you know the the the right wing agenda has been more for
for-profit schools and more corporate
the loans to students to turn them in a into basically dot slaves is a great
chewy right and look at what happened when the president
tried to change the system in order to make sure that
uh... all of the money that was being spent uh... and the federal loan program
went directly to students as opposed to the backs republicans lost their mind
but the president would use executive authority to actually
som make college opera college more and reach for more students and take all
that money away from the banks which would cover their biggest supporters i
mean if talking just about
uh... what the right thing to do for a couple of worship priorities it should
be receiving but if you're talking about what the best thing you can do
to make our country more competitive globally as we've look forward here it's
educating our workforce so that we were competing against india and china and
all the other countries in the world with emerging uh... economies
that we have that we have a real chance for our country div maintain the the the
leading position that it had for so long also must please part was the other
developed
industrialized nations of the world the european economies for example working
on the eve point out the immersion wide dot trust priscilla neck
olympian almost all of these countries
you can go to college for free or damn close to free if you have the the
intellectual capacity to do it and if u are not suited for college there are
trade schools and we just you know in the in thirty years and soces reagan
came in i mean you know he did this forty years ago in california's governor
california you had a a college system there that they're dating back to
lincoln that had been near free education in in california he'd get away
with that same why should i pay students who are you noted that why should i pay
for the jewish is to the sort of a protest by policies and i i i think he
column brat spoiled brat i was reagan's turn and and and then you know the as
president brings in bill bentley sets as warren education and now we've seen you
know they've they've college tuition rates exploding through the rough we've
seen this for-profit colleges
for-profit loans and ended for the first i think i think for the first time in
the history had states he got people graduating from college
with bigger jet then then typically people used to graduate from college by
house have the threat president and it's start to
at such addictive and you're trying to
buildup family build a a life in this country it harder to buy a house
attorney establish credit because you've got this big way to be huge loan dhanya
and as college tuition is gone popping up and up
in the bush administration they did nothing
and uh... help more students go to college the pell grant rate was
basically flat throughout that time president obama tried to try to make
college more potent more affordable congreso letter make it quite affordable
if you'd like to do
buddy still moving things in the right direction but if we don't do that if we
if we
that we prayed student on a bill in the college
it is going to hurt our country in a long term in very real tangible ways as
we lose competitiveness with the world deficit most important for structure
intellectual infrastructure and were not building effective anymore putting all
kinds of road blocks away
filbert you're doing great worker-friendly u_s_a_ infringes afl dot
org on both thanks so much for being with us dot thanks brad