John Doolittle: “This is something I find that is very, very encouraging. Young people in general do trust the free market, and that is…”

“This is something I find that is very, very encouraging. Young people in general do trust the free market, and that is something that I find as a beacon of hope as they are coming up, because they are going to be the next generation that takes power. And I really think a lot of these heavy-handed sort of antifree market ideas which are embodied basically in a liberal Democrat philosophy, I just think that rings very hollow to the coming generation. And I take great hope in that. Just before you go to energy, I want to mention, speaking of young people, education. One aspect of the President's No Child Left Behind plan, which we enacted in Congress, which we passed and he signed into law and became enacted into law, is competition in education. You know, we have great schools in our area, and they were great before No Child Left Behind. In some ways there have been some unfortunate issues with that legislation for our areas, but one of the real areas of transformation has been in the inner city. In no place, I think, have we seen greater success for lifting people out of a hopeless future and putting them into a situation where finally they are going to be able to compete with the skills that they are learning in school than in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. has more charter schools than any other place in the country. These charter schools are actually educating children.…”