word "When", invoking the September 11, 2001 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and attacking the quality of Education in the United States. He particularly criticizes the government's fiscal policy, insisting that citizens "have a right to expect [the] government to be fiscally responsible, pay the bills and live within its means", a criticism of governmental corruption and the trillion dollar "staggering national debt". Kaine accuses Bush mismanagement, citing his tax cuts, and paralleling the "huge surpluses" of the Clinton administration with the "massive deficits" of the Bush administration. Kaine asks rhetorically, "Why should we allow this administration to pass down the bill for its reckless spending to our children and grandchildren?" and repeats his theme, "There's a better way." Success in Virginia Kaine switches his focus from an international level to a state level, discussing the fiscally successful budget reached "Two years ago in Virginia" by Republican legislators and former Democratic Virginia governor Mark Warner. Kaine's first points attack inadequate "service... management and results." The second part of the speech is outlined by Kaine's success on a state level and Bush's mistakes on a national level, "By focusing on results we were able to... protect the essential services that families rely on: education, health care, law enforcement." Education Kaine denounces the No Child Left Behind Act for "wreaking havoc on local school districts" and blames Bush for allegedly underfunding the act while "refusing to let states try innovative alternatives" and "cutting billions of dollars from the student loan programs." He repeats his theme a third time and recalls how "governors from across the country worked together in a bipartisan fashion to reform the senior year of high school", a sentence that repeats the bipartisanship, working, and reform emphasized in his comment on the Virginia budget, "Democrats and Republicans worked together to reform our budget". He notes how states "are working to make... pre-kindergarten accessible to every family." Announcing a Democrat plan "to educate 100,000 new engineers, scientists and mathematicians in the next four years", Kaine proposes an alternative policy to the Bush administration. However, his statement remains vague as he never actually states the Democrat's plan. Instead, he points to "record investments in education... [resulting in] more accredited schools [and] better student test scores", and attributes this to Virginian bipartisan cooperation. Political significance The success of Democrats in Virginia, notably Kaine's election as Governor, provided a success story for national Democrats to