cross property lines they need to generate revenue for the whole country not in a way that a private business can easily absorb so in those cases government should be more entrepreneurial because no private entity has the muscle all or the scale to do it because for the country every dollar we put in in this investment is going to generate two or three or ten dollars over a turn alternately we have to remember that government has always played a role in infrastructure developing united states article one section eight of the us constitution congress was ordered to construct all the postal roads which was you know the seven hundred ninety persion of the internet it wasn't left up to the free market it was put into the u.s. constitution because it was seen as such a central. government function for the nation seven hundred ninety one george washington asked alexander hamilton to come up with a plan to make america prosperous and he came up with his plan an eleven point plan

on manufacturers and one part of it was tariffs and things like that you know to protect a massive manufacturing other part was incentives but another part was infrastructure and he said you know we've got to build a national infrastructure to be able to to facilitate a manufacturing economy and so from the literally from the george washington and then a straight into the ronald reagan administration everybody understood this. what they could do is they could build maglev trains across the united states they could build a new road structure were so be set by the elites who control our society with greed and wealth the one percent that they build these fantastic buildings in new york but you don't have the roads to get decently to these buildings the government's a tool you can use it for good or you can use it for bad we've used it for both but what you're talking about sean is to reinvigorate the economic strength that we have in this country towards a peaceful end. fascinating stuff as always thank you sean from los angeles i was

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on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos build this if you like to believe this is unlikely but he is going to have to sell you know maybe. the old. you just over there you should be the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is about those who in the world under that vision. only could do this. and that's his own feel that it's just this lady of the mossad that you have i don't know if you can get in the dozens you know do more in the middle souls don't put results. right on.

for two decades the american society of civil engineers has urged congress to address the issue of our decaying out of date infrastructure in response congress politicians presidents across america and through time have been just kick the can down the road they've hurled it and the cost is being paid passed on to taxpayers the twenty seven thousand report card by the american society of civil engineers isn't just bad it's really really bad and overall grade of d. plus barely passing was given to our american infrastructure what is a d.

plus i mean well grade of d. me it's that the infrastructure is in fair to poor condition and mostly below standard with many elements approaching the end of their service life it large portion of the system exhibits significant deterioration condition and capacity are of so. serious concern with strong risk of failure oddly enough rail is the only sector to receive a great above seat prated it be the federal railroad administration the office of safety analysis found that in twenty sixteen there were two thousand and twenty five train collision seven hundred ninety eight injuries and two hundred sixty five fatalities related to train crossing collisions and that over the last decade amtrak has seen a thirty one derailment per year with no signs of stopping in addition aviation our airports got to d. roads dams levies public transportation and even our drinking water disease are

below so now the plan has always been to fix these problems nobody is denying that but fixing them takes money that congress and various administrations have simply refused to allocate citing the expense to repair and upgrade as more than we can afford of course while they spend trillions on war the american people pay the price the civil engineers found that the cost of these infrastructure failures is hitting families in the pocketbook our failing infrastructure will eventually by two thousand and twenty five cause three point nine trillion in losses to the us g.d.p. again by twenty twenty five seven trillion and lost business sales and two point five million lost american jobs by two thousand and twenty five but the most disturbing numbers show that american families will lose over thirty four hundred dollars in disposable income per year or about nine dollars a day in two thousand and fifteen it was estimated that the deficiencies and america's surface transportation systems cost households and businesses nearly one

hundred forty seven billion dollars with close to one hundred billion in vehicle operating costs thirty six billion travel time delays and one point four billion in safety costs oh and the point seven billion and environmental costs and yet congress still won't close the funding gap so. are enormous how exactly do we fund a ten year two trillion dollar funding gap how do we pay for the upgrades we need in order to be globally competitive where is the plan to fix the more than fifty five thousand u.s. bridges that need to be repaired or replaced but most importantly how do we devise a plan to avoid this kind of major economic problem from happening again well joining us now to discuss just that is the host of artes financial news show boom bust and former u.s. official bart chilton i think you are joining us pleasure to be with you guys always it's always a pleasure talking to you and i want to start look if the structure is sexy you know we've heard that sort of million times but what is sexy in us society whether

we like it or not as money. but we're not making money without proper infrastructure you can't do that both are tied together but you know explained to the viewers of us you know how are how is infrastructure and money in the making of money and all that tied together like why does that you know why is one so dependent of a lot of it's what to have of just reporting it's about the interrelationship between how we get from our homes to our businesses and how businesses transport products from one place to another and we've got a pretty decent blueprint for our transportation structure but as you're reporting it's all faltering and it's not just a a nicety that we should improve it will make our the economic engine of our democracy much better if we do these things we will be more efficient we will be more effective will be more competitive while the greater gross domestic product the president talked about doing better and better you can't do that if you don't

have the tools and we've got a good blueprint but bad tools and so it really does need to be done there are ways to fund it this is not just it's easy to say well there's got to figure it out i've been there done that nih know how to get it done but unfortunately congress has not showed up. with the political fortitude to do so and we've seen that since you know the obama administration was promising they were making big promises about light rail about high speed trains about these things and we saw none of it through eight years of an administration and this is as we said i said ten twenty years of them saying we have to do something now you had a couple you had a day to sort of look over trump's new plan does the the trumpet ministrations infrastructure play on actually solve the issues of cost to citizens or cost to small business says it is there are an answer in there that the sight of someone there's points out well we take a half a step back before we get to

a top of the so. when the recession happened in two thousand and eight what was called for and by republican democrat economist was an injection of funds and so their words this was a stimulus then the republicans were controlling congress said no it can't be too much money so there was initial him put into some roads under obama administration but it wasn't anywhere near your kook you correctly report of what they said now does this plan deal with it and i swear i really wanted to be positive i really it's it's a fifty three page document i read through a really wanted to say great thing but it is pretty much just a developer's dream but if you said give it to a bunch of developers and they thought well would do away with the environmental water you know safety regulations so we can just build this stuff and we're going to require that all these other cars on the federal money which would only be

twenty percent of the the funds for a project but we're going to require all these these things we're going to allow workers to come from one state to another to work on a project regardless of whether or not they qualify in that state for their protections states have i mean it's weird because. republicans have generally been for states' rights and here you have an administration was saying no the states do not have a right to say who is going to work on what transportation projects in their states and all sorts of other things which are just really not not great is going to allow for toll route toll roads to be privatized i would talk about a little bit and earlier in the show you know things like rest stops things like toll roads how would a private business be better at that. well i'm not sure they would be but i guess you know maybe they could offer i don't slot machines are. right for the kids they will not be there is that but the president has our back though because you will not have to pay for restroom or water so you've got that going for you well let me

ask you one simple question as sort of a follow up to that if there's enough money if there's enough profitability that private developers and private investors want to put the money and why should we give away those profits why should the u.s. government invest in that and keep the profits it's like you know there was a summer when i was in college and i wasn't to use my apartment so i gave it to a friend of a friend to use and you know when i came back and he sold all my good stuff and that's sort of what the president's proposing here let's sell off the george washington parkway for gosh sake that was built by lady bird johnson part of the beautification of project herbie loves those things going to sell off washington d.c. national bunch other great dulles airport i mean selling off all our good stuff while we're gone i mean it's just really crazy get privatized these things sell off our good stuff it just it's a shame and i wish i could say other things because it's so important that we get this done i don't want to make it a political thing i really just want to get it done we do need it we do need to do

it what's really interesting to me is that when we talk about the selling off of things you know are we is a going to be like other things we're not going to be able to sell to foreign companies or even foreign countries for that matter because we seem to be doing that a lot in the private sector where a lot of things are getting bought up by ford and whatever. china suddenly decides to buy the george washington bridge you know better china says well maybe we're not going to let you drive on this there's all sorts of pitfalls of this but one thing that's interesting is you worked out of trying to transportation bill that actually passed in the senate so with your experience you know how do we get something that's so controversial and so hard to pass like infrastructure spending how do we get that the past really two components there's the the it what it is you're doing whether or not it's road rail transportation and different states have different needs and then there's the funding problem so let me take them one of the time so the good thing about transportation is like why i like working on the senate is that it's really not about republicans or democrats it's really about whether or

not you have lots of highways but not a lot of people to pay for the upkeep of the highway where the not you're you know in the east coast corridor the a cell a corridor and you have a transit it's about what transportation modes get the funding but that's based upon the states not a base not based upon politics so i like that you can work that out as just a compromise right getting everybody to yes was what we had to say on the money it's more difficult particularly in since we just spent we as the government just spent one point five trillion dollars on this corporate tax cuts and individual tax cuts but those expires the corporate boys are there for. here's the way to do it in my view and it's not popular but this is i think the best way we pay right now i think it's eighteen point five it's eight hundred points sent eighteen point something cents per gallon every time you get a gallon of gasoline up that a nickel you take care of all this now gas prices are relatively low right now i

don't know two thirty nine a gallon or something for regular i mean back two thousand and ten they were four dollars and ten cents or so and nickel right now i mean that's pretty much the difference between buying it here in washington or buying it you know fifteen miles away people i think could accept that now they're not going to like it and it to. congress to do that but a gas tax is the easy thing it's fair in that it goes all across the board will some things be more expensive transportation will your amazon in your fedex deliveries be a little bit more expensive will get a pass through yeah but a nickel a gallon to take care of all this stuff rather than have to sell off all our good stuff in a developer's dream that would be the way i go about it i think that's ultimately is the hardest thing with infrastructure is i think that it's hard for people to see look you've got to take a little bit of a short term here because the long term is going to pay off so spectacularly and as we talked about earlier when my father was working and getting a light rail in minnesota the hardest thing he ran into was the party politics the

governor volved with you know if i run it through this section of town that's predominantly democrat will invent a crowd supported what i want to do this section of town that's probably republican when the republicans support it but neither one wants to give the other side the bridgeman cutting at the end of the day they don't want to do that so politics also plays a role in that we need him back here in d.c. . but george i'm always a pleasure to have you on thank you so much i always always value your insight into these rather complicated but necessary issues facing are going to do with you guys thank you thank you very much. the real world has bucked many of our futuristic scythe but certainly not when it comes to the dominance of robots from a replacing personal assistants and sex robots threatening revolution is the adult entertainment industry well now these robots may not only be out for our jobs but out for their freedom as well in a stunning and somewhat alarming demonstration engineers at boston dynamics showcase their newest robot dog lovingly named spot mini who is now not only

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good morning from moscow it's ten am here this thursday the fifteenth of february i'm calling brain this is real world news from international first the breaking news of another school massacre in the united states this time at a high school in florida seventeen people are dead and at least a dozen others are reported injured the suspect shooter is a nineteen year old former student who's now in custody a video emerged online which seems to be from one of the classrooms while the attack was underway but please be warned that it does contain upsetting scenes. like. the shots rang out inside the school in the city of parkland panic students were seen running to safety this video was taken while the gunman was still at large it's understood the fire alarm to draw people into the open to cause as many injuries as possible and officers rapidly swarmed the campus before leading pupils and staff to safety. he would be very.

very few. people like some of the youngsters have been describing that terrifying experience of. the song white and dead body there on the floor and blood all around the floor how many people like five on the third floor. if they look like students it was one teacher and four students so they do pull the fire drill we want to assign blame boom boom boom there's gunshots at those firecrackers but after the last shot i was like oh. if you like is known as cool you don't expect these links only coming in being that you're going to shoot at school you like started taking your family i love you never know if you get shot or killed right then. multiple fatalities have been confirmed in the deadly shooting that took place today at marjorie stoneman douglas high high school about fifty kilometers north of miami florida and the sheriff's office had

a detailed account of today's events so let's take a quick listen we have seventeen confirmed victims. well victims were in the building. and sure true victims were outside just outside the building one victim is on the street at the corner of pine island. and chewed for. people who lost their lives at the house the sheriff's office has also confirmed that the suspected shooter has been detained and is now in police custody authorities have identified the shooter as nineteen year old nicholas cruz a former student who was quote expelled for disciplinary reasons he reportedly used in a ar fifteen rifle and even had extra magazines in his possession and as soon as the incident unfolded multiple ambulances police cars and even armored vehicles were deployed to the scene swat teams clear the school and reunite. students with their families who described the circumstances as quote chaotic and frantic florida

governor rick scott said he's been in touch with local officials and homeland security has apparently been in contact with both state and local officials but we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida if needed but according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty so these horrific says his six could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue. students

of the high school in poplin to describe the suspect as troubled some even said he looked like a future school shooter others say he was a firearms enthusiastic in his free time we've been discussing some of the underlying issues behind yet another gun related mass killing in the u.s. . so over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's unseen and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and a lot of states now you can carry them. undercover illegally there's

a lot of nutty miss in this country about how guns make you safer. and the evidence is all to the contrary this is an ultimate cry for attention and i'd like to see the media for the first time not look at this is a gun issue and to shy away from the anatomy object or or start to start to look away from why or how these individuals are getting the guns and start looking at the intent behind it why are they doing this what's the mental health of this person what's their personal individual issue if there's one thing that we do know it's been proven time and time again that the gun itself does not do any damage but the issue is the person behind it their intent their motives their means. was considered florida's safest city has well as one of the safest in the united states . but just hours ago teaches that how to barricade cost rooms while terrified students sent text messages to family and friends.

my school is being shut up and i locked inside the scared right now. moment there have been shots fired on campus at school there are police sirens outside i'm in the two room and the doors are locked. i want to shut up i say this is catastrophic. and on the eve of a catastrophic game broward county history it's devastating i'm sick to my stomach and. prayers for the kids feminists and friends affected by the florida high school shooting. no kid should ever have to go through this please pray for florida love you all and hope everyone is safe. love each other you may never know where it may

be the last day minutes are one. for the news now the british government is being accused of turning its back on interpreters who helped its military in afghanistan many have received death threats from the taliban and say they can't remain in their land playboy has been speaking exclusively to an afghan interpreter whose bid for asylum in the u.k. has failed they only gave me the notice for deportation they told me that you have to leave the country so they're going to send me. i will do differently because of abdul barry was a front line in ten percent with british forces in afghanistan from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten and i know that if i joined the british forces would be a great place for me but i have to do that because our country was. situation in our country was very bad so i have to help the international forces to protect other countries so they came to my country to protect us so why should i not hope that working with u.k. troops made abdul

a target for local taliban forces that was a phone call from my from my father and a letter put in my door so we know that your son is working for the infidels so tell him to leave the job otherwise he will be slapped are the threats soon turned to violence when the taliban raided on my family getting up my father and my mom and my dad so on that time when that happened he was completely angry all the problems happened to me just because a few creating problems for us with his and his family's lives in danger abdul was forced to flee had enough time to go and seek peace for protection or something like that on it was for me one choice to leave the country he came to britain illegally through cali and applied for asylum on the very first day since then the home office has rejected his initial application and his appeal the government says it's safe to return to kabul where he says his life is in danger that

was until. i was and justice cos when i heard i helped the british forces in a very risky time but at the moment i am at risk so i need help but this still ignoring me. as an asylum seeker. this is the more distant commendation that the government provides for him he also gets thirty five pounds a week in living expenses and he has the constant threat of deportation looming over him there around a thousand afghan interpret is that worked with british forces around four hundred of them have been given u.k. visas which means abdul is one of around six hundred who have been qualified the system has been described as unfair and a lot of. abdul's.