Assignment+1.4

- A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people. - A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. - A Congressional budget office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that. - A low budget is uncomfortable. -Students throughout Italy occupied squares and blocked traffic to protest a new education law Wednesday -The demonstration in Rome had been peaceful until a group of rightists wielding clubs and chains arrived and clashed with other students -About 15 students were detained, the police said, while 3 students and one policeman were hurt. -The protests took place as the Italian Senate approved the law drawn up by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right government but which the center-left opposition has vowed to repeal with a national referendum. -"We are protesting because we have no future," said Francesco Marri, a university student protesting outside the Senate, which is next to Piazza Navona. -"Most of my students realize that they will have to go abroad, either to the United States or elsewhere in Europe, if they want to advance their careers," - "As soon as I graduate, I want to go to Spain to study - anywhere but here in Italy, which is mired in petty politics." -"We'd have to terminate some teachers and nonteachers," Klein said. "It's really up to Albany." -"After-school programs and other enrichment and support programs will have to be eliminated," -"We're responding to what parents want in those communities," -'Well, that's a charter. It's not a public school.' Charter schools are public schools open to the public by a lottery for free." -The Department of Education said no school budgets are being cut more than 4.9 percent, a number that principals called fuzzy math -"I'm a principal. I'm used to doing things with one hand tied behind my back. But don't tie both my hands."