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joining us today has been arthur brooks, the head of the aei.with us. >> thank you. >> if you have to leave us with final thoughts, again, you have said before this is really important to get rid of cronism. how do we go about attacking this? >> the key thing for us is to remember what our core values are. we believe in competition. at aei, this is an old think tank, our founding motto was the competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society. it is the same thing people watching us who care about business and success informal commerce understand that the fundamental to a free society is a competitive economy as well. the fundamental idea for a successful america is competition around the world. when we get away from the ethos of competition, everything else we talked about from immigration to the public policies, they all fall apart. a symptom of that is cronyism, having to deal wire and harvey talked about the cancer of cronyism in the country and it is true. it is the evil twin sister of statism, when people have extra deals. we'll rememb

>> yeah, michael barone with aei and the washington examiner. arthur, you mentioned recruitment of blacks in the poor industries and a million southern blacks moved north more than in the 70 years between the two. did the fepc, the fair employment practices commission, was that established under pressure from -- [inaudible] play any significant role in that? what role did business leaders in particular the auto company guys make efforts to get black workers in the south? is. >> i wrote about it in the book because i thought it was quite striking. knudsen was all in favor of bringing african-americans in, but he thought the fair practice was totally the wrong way to go. he said he'd go factory by factory. he just convinced them, look, you guys can do this work, and you do it in a kind of step-by-step, contract-by-contract process not by some changes in the rules of who can be hired and not. by the large, the role of segregation of the workplace varied from company to company to company. not even just industry to industry, company to company. the

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. >> i'm with aei. you mentioned recruitment of blacks.and a million southern blacks moved north, more than then the 75 years. did the commission -- [inaudible] play any significant role and that? what role did business leaders in particular the auto company guys and steel company, concerted efforts to seek black workers in the south? >> that was a very interesting aspect to i wrote about in the book because i thought it was quite striking. knudsen is all in favor to of bringing income and compete at the their practice was totally the wrong way to go. he said you go factor by factory, convince them what these guys can do. you to show them examples of the you do any step-by-step, contract by contract, not by some blatant changes in rules, who can be hired and who cannot be by and large the role of segregation of the workplace very from company to company. not even industry to industry. company to cover. the gm plant, for example, that i was talking about earlier was completely integrated. it was a shock to african-american workers coming in

norm ornstein, an aei fellow, recently wrote a great piece about how it really is the republican party that is the problem in washington. and it's important that people recognize that. >> and co-authored a book. we had both of them on this show. you have already indicated that you know the tea party has been deferred to in a certain way and is continuing to exert its influence here. do republicans really want to go down the road again of waging war on women's health? >> well, i have to say that one piece of good news is that john boehner last week, i believe, said they wouldn't take on contraception, that they would recognize that this isn't the bill. they wouldn't put forward bills to eliminate this important benefit. that's really only after millions of women became energized by a debate in which rush limbaugh said, you know, attacked a woman, a 30-year-old woman, basically calling her the worst and most malicious names, and i will remind folks that the leader of the republican party, mitt romney, refused to repudiate him. now that women have woken up and recognized issues as becausi

. >> you have the three points from aei. they can go with this from the medicare position.nswer down cold and move on. >> bret: okay. that's it for panel. we'll be back to the topic i'm sure. stay tuned for some more reaction of paul ryan, mitt romney's running mate. okay, here's the plan. you have a plan? first we're gonna check our bags for free, thanks to our explorer card. then, the united club. my mother was so wrong about you. next, we get priority boarding on our flight i booked with miles. all because of the card. and me. okay, what's the plan? plan? mm-hmm. we're on vacation. this is no pl. really? [ male announcer ] the united mileageplus explorer card. the mileage car ith special perks on united. get it and you're in. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis sympto. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief

robert kagan with aei and kerry healey. one of his long time aides.hat can you tell us about them? guest: rate publication geared i had the pleasure working there. these are not the four people i would uptick. john lehman was a former navy secretary. they focus on the issues of defense, sequestration, the hollowing out of our military due to a lack of ship building. williamson is a human rights guy purity africa back. the u.n. guy. bob kagan. his whole book is about how america is not in decline. this is what is interesting because the mitt romney team accuses barack obama of american decline. kagan says it is up to us. in a way, it reinforces the theme that there is a risk of decline. but it also reinforces obama's team. and kerry has a serious role in in this campaign. it touches all issues, including foreign policy. host: beshear valerie jarrett type person? -- is she a valerie jarrett type person? guest: i would mention some other people. the former senator from missouri. also rumored as a possible senior administration official. i would put him i

kevin hassett, aei senior fellow says no. he will tell us why in a minute.op nominee mitt romney makes his case to america. the question is, did he convince voters he is the best choice to take on our struggling economy? i guess the voters will ultimately decide, but two top political mind will weigh in, just ahead. tracy: that will be good stuff. first, top of the hour. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. lauren simonetti on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we bounced back. we came shooting back down. we lost 100 points. now we're back up again. what is the market saying? >> very choppy session, we've been waiting for ben bernanke's speech all week when we finally got it. went into negative territory. just missed doing that after ben bernanke started speaking. but we're now up, half of the session high. but, still firmly higher. as you said earlier if you look three months charts we've been up for all three major averages for the past three months. really nice gains, stronger gains for the nasdaq and s&p 500, if you're looking at the monthly

virtue in forcing someone to be virtuous, and trying to remember the name of the gentleman head of aei -- arthur brooks. he used to be a liberal. he wrote a book called "who carolina." he looked at red stated and blue states and was convinced blue states would be the most generous. they're lib rag. and the conservative red states are evil and vicious and don't care. he found the exact opposite. red states are the most personally generous and liberals don't because they let the state do it. we have to take that back, josh. one person at a time. everyone in this room has to decide huh to help the less fortunate, deal with social issues in my neighborhood? deal with the issue of unwed motherhood, deal with so many kids being born in house without dads. we have to do it the best we can. we can take back, because you helping someone is far better than a bureaucrat. okay? thank you. [applause] >> hello, i'm going to be attending colby college in the fall. and i and i agree with your stance on virtues and it's important and i agree with you on that. but i'm going to speak my mind on this next

." >>> todd akin resisting deafen calls to drop out of aey senate race in the wake of his explosive legitimate rain comments. he has since apologized for the remarks asking voters for forgiveness in a new ad. it hasn't stopped the backlash. it's only intensifying. and republicans only have two hours left to change his mind. at that point getting out of the race becomes much more complicated. let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. she's got the very latest. this is a fast-moving story, dana. the clock is ticking. >> the clock is ticking, but it's not pushing todd akin at all to step aside. he went op a friendly forum radio show, mike hhe made it cl he's not going anywhere. listen. >> it does seem misspoke one word and one sentence on one day, i hadn't done anything that was morally or ethically wrong as sometimes people in politics do. we do a lot of talking. and to get a word in the wrong place, you know, that's not a good thing to do or to hurt anybody that way. but it does seem like a little bit of an overreaction. >> so he's calling this an overreaction. republican

michael mcshane, a research fellow for education policy at aei.o much for being here. michael, what do you think of the policy? >> you know, i think it's part of a broad tradition we have in the study of economics, dating all the way back to adam smith that human beings respond to financial incentive. more recently, behavioral economists looked at incentivizing specific behaviors with cash rewards and it found that provided the program satisfied two basic criteria, they tend to be successful. one of which is that the goal is attainable. and the second of which is that the path to get to the goal is straightforward. so if you think about it, if you were to say that you were gog pay me a million dollars to dunk a basketball, i'd say, there are certain physical limitations that are going to prevent me from doing that. it's not attainable. the incentive probably won't mean anything. similarly, if you told me i had to coach a basketball team to the dc city championship, the path to get there would be extremely difficult and would have to intersect with

i'm trying to remember the name of the gentleman that is now the head of aei three arthur brooks. thank you. he is to be a liberal. he wrote a book and called it who cares. he looked at fred states and blue states and he was convinced that the state's would be the

aei tells us we should expect a big spike in capital gains. we got it. we see a big spike in other income. that's partly business income but the big thing is we have a tripling in real terms of dividend income on the top 1%. i never held a dividend paying stocks when attacks on him was 40 or 50%, but i'm thinking dividends look pretty good to me. and apparently a lot of people agree with me. you have a big increasing amount of income. and by the way, and it's arguable that this is an amazing device. it's not a reported dividend, enough to probably offset the lower rate. then, of course, we have the recession which is the grand nastiness of it all. so this is just a simple way of describing eti, and you can see the result of people were behaving when tax rates changed. this is a quote from piketty and saez with a young woman from mit, i forget her name. stephanie i think. and it says there's a clear negative correlation between top 1% income share and the marginal tax rates come at this graph which is from another publication size was involved in, i could

i am trying to remember the gentleman who is now the head of aei. arthur brooks. thank you. he start the liberal spirit he wrote a book called "who cares?" he was convinced that list is to be the most generous because they are liberal and conservative redskins are evil and vicious. he founded to not care. red states are the most personally generous. liberals do not because they let the state to do it. everyone has to decide, how do i help the less fortunate? how do i deal with the issue of unwed motherhood? how do i deal with a summit kids being born? we have to deal with it as best as we can. you helping someone is far better than a bureaucrat. [applause] >> hello. i will be attending in the fall. all i will speak my mind on the next point. i disagree with you on the points that church and state should be together. in a couple reasons on why. i will ask you at the end why you believe so it can help my opinion to sway me. i'll cite a supreme court case where they struck down when they tried to establish a prayer in public schools. the supreme court struck it down because the