Bob Wise: “What is the role, then, of Social Security? Why do you not just say we are going to give you the peace of mind, we are…”

But I have to point out, the enormous costs of restructuring the financial institutions, the banks, the auto industry, even AIG, total all of those up, it is still less than the combined cost of 5 years of dropouts in this country.

I want to say that apparently the gentleman may not be aware, that raised the question, that the EDA has cut its overhead at least 25 percent, I believe as much as one-third of the number of jobs in the central office over the past few…

We also believe we have to get accountability right. That means the State-led efforts to develop common standards so now there is an overarching set of standards that the States have agreed to, internationally benchmarked.

I agree if the gentleman's amendment passes, that will be X amount of jobs that will not be created. The gentleman will want to put it into drug courts. I am trying to keep people out of drug courts by giving them a job in the first place.