>> i agree with john layfield on the merit-based system and the unions need reform there. think that he may want to reconsider the comments that the teachers don't care about the kids. every teacher i've met cares about the kids. it's possible they care about the kids at the same time. and comes frothe economic turn down and the shrinking tax base. it raises the question, whether we want to follow a european model, making the blind kind of budget cuts at the state and federal level rather than the smarter choices about structural reform and health care entitlement spending. these kinds of things are-- to the point, i don't think this is consolidation, you're going to have huge problems as a result of these school closings. it's not good for the kids or the local economy, it's being foisted on them because the local economies don't have any other choice. >> i've got to get to jonas, go ahead. >> a good point. and this doesn't just go to teaching for the money. they get a situation paid more, whatever the free market wage would be to feget to do the jobs. the union job is to