pressure inso much our political landscape now to undo and find benefit pensions that are almost nonexistent now. the stock market, it is a crapshoot. if everything is in the stock market, you don't know what you will have. all right. this e-mail is from alan. alex in fairfax, virginia, with a high school degree, what do you think? caller: i think a college degree is still necessary, certainly. i think that definitely the message that we are all given from children, that it is important to get your education and stay in school is correct, but in a sense we are under emphasizing and falling behind the rest of the civilized world and developed world in terms of tuition. most of the industrialized world -- i don't think anywhere in the industrialized world has tuition as high as the united states. i think that as americans we need to be demanding policies to back up the messages they are sending to our children, that education is important and we need to be working seriously and, frankly, taking emphasis programs, like defense spending, so that we can bring our social services, like education a