commissioner fure? commissioner fure? commissioner fewer: for members of the public, i want to make a couple of comments. very brief. mr. stein i hear you loud and clear that our bus drivers are taking a double hit, with the furloughs and think it is a travesty and crime to our students that we're so underfunded and with the budget, our state budget, depending on the state budge wet are -- we are forced to do this and must do this in order to keep things like class size low, keep vital services during the school day and also employ our teachers and the rest of the district staff. it is with a very heavy heart we do this. if we had the money, i believe we should give transportation to everybody but that isn't the reality today. and it probably will not be the reality for many years. the superintendent opened up with the statement abousuperint with the statement about state budget. it is very dismal. we're doing the best that we can here. but we are -- we are committed to protecting the education of students during the scho

and this state has no fure if it is going to be the tax capital of the nation. we have to send that signal this session by passing the property tax cap. host: the fred hot -- headlines from "the new post." let millionaire taxes die out. he is saying, read my lips, no new taxes, an that includes levies on wealthy new yorkers, he is setting. he is against extending a temporary income tax surcharge on high income earners in 20 set to expire at the end of 2011. back to your calls. would stay to run the country facing budget deficits, what are some of the solutions? donna is joining us from michigan. you alshad a new governor, republican governor, in michigan and also the highest -- one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. caller: good morning. i am calling because we have a new governor. but if our legislature is going to continue to act in the same way it has in the past, he won't be able to do much to sol our problems. the legislature every year spends a good deal of time arguing whether they are going to raise taxes -- republicans say, no, absolutely