‘Just from my conversations with the White House’

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ROGERS: "I don’t believe the war will be going on in January, by the time we’re sworn in. Just from my conversations with the White House. They seem to think they will have it wrapped up. I’ve called for them to wrap it up. That’s the right thing to do but we have other problems here in Michigan. We’ve been on a decline for at least the last eight years. We have lost 27,000 manufacturing jobs. The rest of the country gained about a hundred thousand. We have the highest utility rates in the midwest. Highest auto insurance rates in the country. We have the first year homeowner – the first age of a new homeowner in Michigan is 40 years old, and this is the most important one and we’re going to fix this. About 2/3 of fourth graders can’t read in the fourth grade. 2/3. And if you can’t read in the fourth grade, by the fourth grade, 70% chance of going to prison or being on welfare. I have an interdiction plan to make your every fourth grader is using a phonics-based reading program. If we don’t fix that we’re all in trouble."