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Speaker 1: parody of itself. This is not merely theoretical. These endorsements

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Speaker 1: Let us not forget Matt Bresso and John George are

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Speaker 1: Trump's endorsements mean something. They should never be automated. They

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Speaker 1: Cheryl, I'm in an odd position here. This is where

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Speaker 1: you going to pay them? Well, that's just I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize you were against the TA. You're always bragging you

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Speaker 1: loved your teachers. I did love my teachers, and I

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Speaker 1: think teaching is a very noble goal. But I think,

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Speaker 1: like everything else, police officers, military, you want to go

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Speaker 1: down that road, you want to go down the who's

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Speaker 1: getting underpaid road? Let's go down that whole path. You

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Speaker 1: can't just have emotions, and based on emotions, let people

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Speaker 1: with an alternate agenda run wild with the checkbook because

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Speaker 1: that's what you're doing. So my position is the vouchers

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Speaker 1: didn't do enough. Give people control of their money and

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Speaker 1: where they spend it. Why are we sending money to

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Speaker 1: schools and then the schools are recruiting kids to come there.

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Speaker 1: It's a public school. How crazy is this? Nobody's out

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Speaker 1: begging on a particular street that you drive down this

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Speaker 1: street because we gave them a bunch of money for

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Speaker 1: the street and they want to get more. You've created

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Speaker 1: an incentive for schools to squander their money. You've created

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Speaker 1: an incentive to get more money constantly. Because remember, it's

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Speaker 1: not just the taxpayer dog. What nobody factors into this

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Speaker 1: is the bonds that they float and the new buildings

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Speaker 1: that they build. You want to build a professional sports

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Speaker 1: team at your high school, fine, pay for it yourself.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay for Jerry Jones's stadium. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to pay for yours. That's not what school's

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Speaker 1: about anyway. You don't need a better stadium to have

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Speaker 1: a better football team. What the hell? How do we

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Speaker 1: lose sight of all this? Well, I like to have

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Speaker 1: a good football team. I'd like to put a garage

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Speaker 1: on my house, but I can't because the taxes are

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Speaker 1: being paid to you. You're taking people's money to build

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Speaker 1: these things because you created a whole industry of people

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Speaker 1: who float bonds and get paid them muni fees and

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Speaker 1: get paid all the finance fees on it. You've got

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Speaker 1: administrators making all this money, and yes, we have to

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Speaker 1: pay them teachers more. How come well? Because now, why

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Speaker 1: help tell me how much they make and how many

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Speaker 1: days a year they work. Somehow you're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: offended if they do. Wouldn't you like to know? Jim