joining us from williamsburg virginia is david feldman, author of why does college cost so much?s also the chair of the economics department at the college of william and marry and bone holmes, at student at (accucapnt trial version) montgomery college. david, the president' plan would include two years of free community college for students who qualify. who do you think the plan is targeting? >> well, that depends on how it's actually constructed. and the details haven't been fully released. my -- what i am hearing is that this would be an entitlement program. it would not be means tested available to any student attending a community college regardless of their family income. and that's one of the reasons (accucapnt trial version) for the extra costs. although i must say that $6 billion a year is a mouse of a budget item. >> well, it might be a mouse of a budget item if, you know there is some metric that can be used that says to tax taxpayers this will pay off s there any sort of evidence based, i don't know what call it, an evidence based project of this sort where people cou

i live here in williamsburg, virginia. operate a small business that is recognized -- a recognized public health program. i operate local health facilities that work with public housing, schools, and any organization that wants a fitness component. over these last 14 years of operating, i have been speaking with my local sheriffs in charge of the local jails and regional jails, and what i have offered is free of charge my services to come to the jails and involve the incarcerated mother or father or extended family with the children that come to visit them, and to do a healthy activity where they can spend an hour riding one of my bikes -- stationary bikes inside of my trailers in a very safe and enclosed environment that can park on the premises. so when you go in here in and year out and continue to donate services in public housing and schools where the majority of these kids are coming from, i don't hold much hope. it seems like the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody involved want to be some sort of celebrity

on our twitter page -- let's go to williamsburg, virginia. online for republicans -- our line for republicans. caller: i'm in favor of an improved constitution. three houses. we would have no more gridlock. things would flow very easily based on three always agree. that is my belief. host: robert in arizona. our line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning, everybody. i believe minimum wage means minimum wage. all workers, illegal or not, should be paid minimum wage. that should be raised to $10. america will work if you pay them. if you don't mind, we need to get off the terrorism horse and go back to humans rights rights issues. president obama needs to work with russia. host: some of the many issues congress will be taking up in the coming weeks and months in the new term of the 114th congress. we will be joined fairly soon by incoming republican class freshman president ken buck of ohio. questions or comments for the incoming congressmen from colorado, give us a call now. we go to william in dallas texas. our line for democra

virginia, and he was always very senior. it was usually a senior army commander. compare it with the governor's palace in williamsburg, which is impressive, and virginia is undoubtedly the main jewel in the british crown in north america, the most populous of the estates, and certainly one of the most prosperous, although the south carolinian planters exceeded them in wealth. but again, jamaica's governor's house was much larger, which gives you a sense of the importance that the british it should be did. this was built in the 1760's. if you look at spanish town today, it is no longer the capital of jamaica which moved to kingston later on. you can see that this was one of the great colonial capitals. it is like a sort of williamsburg. this would have been where the courts met and where the assembly met. when the british started to try to introduce a more efficient form of government in america and to introduce direct taxes, this affected the islands just as much as it affected the north american colonies. the stamp act tax, which is really the first iraq tax -- dir ect tax in 1765, the stamp act tax was going to cos

williamsburg. it's about an hour. >> thanks so much for that warm welcome. i'm really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from northern virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately that's not the case. you have to keep checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous, although somewhat ribald as well. here's the story. the smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the day the proxy father was to arrive, mr. smith kissed his wife good-bye, said, well, i'm off nowment the man will be here soon. half an hour later, just by chance, a baby photographer happened by to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. good morning, ma'am, i have -- no need to explain, said mrs. smith, embarrassed. i have been expecting you. have you really? did you know my specialtieses are babieses? that's what my husband and i hoped. please have a seat. after a moment she asked, where do we start? leave everyth

williamsburg. it's about an hour. >> thanks so much for that warm welcome. i'm really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from northern virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately that's not the case. you have to keep checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous although somewhat ribald as well. here's the story. the smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the day the proxy father was to arrive, mr. smith kissed his wife good-bye said well, i'm off nowment the man will be here soon. half an hour later just by chance a baby photographer happened by to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. good morning, ma'am, i have -- no need to explain, said mrs. smith, embarrassed. i have been expecting you. have you really? did you know my specialtieses are are babieses? that's what my husband and i hoped. please have a seat. after a moment she asked where do we start? leave everythin