telling you this you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher drive down douthat road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the parts of the book. no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit there been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all of this mine waste direct danger to children they can get the help they need it should have an easy to put a bio together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or a highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus are progres events had an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe steer the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee oversees and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental bio money goes in half was the faucet you have a place like this in your home state you're carrying the kind of committee that can actua

have torque cream which starts up in kansas runs through the mining belt becomes contaminated at douthat which is just south of pitcher and then runs on the east side of commerce runs through the center of miami only into new show river. on instagram like let's just say it's been doing that since they are nothing but orange yucky smelly container. that is watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off a chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is a life time polluted water. this my system swallows any ground water hole and coughs up one's blood. in a look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years of superfund it's it's since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing for the united states but this is the legacy we have kind of an obligation to fix. if you drive through picher right now and drive down doubtful road nothing's changed noth

too will painful austerity anything to keep the banks are happy new york times op ed columnist ross douthat laid out this new reality of technocrat control in a recent article in which he wrote for the inhabitants of italy and greece who have just watched democratically elected governments toppled by pressure from financier's european union bureaucrats and foreign heads of state evokes the cold reality of twenty first century politics democracy may be nice in theory but as a time of crisis it's the technocrats who get to call the shots national sovereignty is a pretty concept but the survival of the european common currency comes first. all signs indicate that will be confronted with this problem once again in the united states as another financial crisis big caused by europe or some other bubble like student debt or housing seems like a foregone conclusion at this point and when it hits the fan and the american people tell congress no way in hell they signed off on the bailout of wall street then expect the technocrats of the fed to take over again and our democracy will be irrelevant just

and ross douthat. this is about an hour. we're here for a debate. i think tonight's event is a timely event as we hear much discussion in washington about tax policy and budget policy. i want to be clear about the fact underlying the american enterprise institute. we strive not to chase headlines but to develop policy ideas, to make feature headlines. this event is timely. i do not want anyone to think that we put this together in haste after all the headlines that have been surrounding this topic. the discussions date back to june -- july. >> august. >> no. jul indeed. prior to the debt limit debate, and the construction of the super khomeni, the failure of the super khomeni and prior to senator kerry calling grover norquist the 13th member. that always confused me because if there were 13 members, there probably would have been a deal. let me brief played just set up the topic in terms of budget and economic perspective. i will introduce our speakers and we will be on our way after i review the rules. just the city of what the landscape looked lik