i am looking at finland. finland is complaining. i am reading the words of the finnish government. the lower price and the fact that the nuclear plants do not have to fool with the carbon trading costs, they do not have the uncertainties that other people have, all of this means they are making unfair and unearned income. it has become so profitable. the french presumably share that situation. it is becoming so profitable that they ought to turn it back to the government. sweden is doing a similar thing. norway is doing it. in belgium, the government is no carrierringconnect 1200 250 n >> it is not exactly a fair comparison. france was facing the same decisions we were. they decided they did not want to be dependent upon foreign sources of energy anymore than we did. we have abundant supplies of coal and natural gas. they went the nuclear route. we have a complete government owned and regulated utility, it is easy to make those long-term decisions and stick with them. as mr. book talked about earlier, we allow the consumers to make the choice did we binge and purge and go from chea

that they now i'm just looking at finland. finland is complaining and they were to the finnishmac government here, the fact that the lower price and in particular the fact that the nuclear plants don't have to fool with a carbon trading cost and all of this means, and they don't have the uncertainties that other people have, and all of this means that they are making unfair, unearned income because it's become so profitable, and the french whom we share that situation, it is becoming so profitable that they ought to turn, you know, back to the government. sweden is doing a similar thing. norway is doing it. belgium, they are asking, the government is asking the nuclear operators to pay a 250 million euro contribution to the state government because they are making so much money off of nuclear. so this whole question about nuclear being too expensive, i think you want to look at the real answers there. >> i would like to make a couple points to that. one, comparing the united states market economy to command-and-control sociali

guest: one of the places it happens in the highest performing countries, countries like finland, canada, is that they pay more attention to recruiting and supporting and preparing their teachers and continuous improvement of that, continuous strengthening, in a really focused professional development. so that from the very first day of school, first grade, second grade, children have teachers who are well prepared in math and science. so we don't think of it as only a specialization. and then you imbue it into the class room all the way through. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i appreciate it. your guest keeps referring to seems to me that the teachers need improvement. it has nothing to do with the teachers whatsoever. if you can do a graph from 1960's, we used to be number one in everything. we were the highest educational system in the world. every major inner city in the united states, the school system are being destroyed. you have kids that are running like animals, children carrying guns into class, teachers are scared to go in there. you want to do a graph? find out