The only things that I would reinforce is that we all should know that the pension problem is a serious one, and it's the elephant in the room of any budget discussion. Over the last five years, over 70% of every dollar of increased money that went to schools or went to education went to Pay for pensions. 70%. Over 70% of every dollar that went to pay for increases in education went to pay pensions and it's just inexcusable. So the answer that I have for that is growth. (1:09:55–1:10:07)
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