this is calvin. hey, calvin. >> how are you doing. >> reporter: how is it looking out there? >> it's not bad driving. it's a little slippery on the side roads, ford avenue where i live and i dug it out pretty good. snowplows are moving. they're trying to work. some of the vehicles would get off of the roadway and park in the designated avenues they would have less problems clearing the roads. i would appreciate them moving it. >>> you've got innovative here. what is all of this snow about? >> i had to remove the snow off of my block so we could have room. all of the sidewalks that i cleared on my side of the street just ran out of room so i had to place it somewhere. this is the best shock. take it down and drop it off and come back and get some more. my neighbors clear off the steeps. they're in the house. they don't have them in at the moment. help them out. doing the best i can to make sure this happens. >> that's very nice of you and this is your fifth load? >> this is my mother-in-law's road. had to dig them out. so hopefully it won't be so bad out here today. it doesn't

and dramatic spending cuts like oh, i don't know, calvin coolidge.e's ideas are not even spending less. they're a massive expansion of government. and the redistribution of wealth. americans are not prepared to accept, i don't think either of these ideas and less prepared to accept a marxist kind of country. we've sort of been conditioned over the past couple of hundred years to be a tad skeptical of government power. so to implement the radical ideas you have to do one of two things. one, you can wait for a crisis and then force it down everybody's throats in a panic. or some sort of nuclear option. for that, you need radical thinkers very close to you that already have developed the plans and can jump in at a moment's notice. when there is an emergency, you jump in. the second way is to do it bit-by-bit, to constantly main stream the radical ideas over a long period of time until they don't sound so crazy anymore. this is the foundation of the glorious return today of van jones. you remember him? everybody's favorite self-described communist revolu

the other is i'm writing a pyett garfield calvin coolidge. i have been working with the calvin coolidge memorial foundation in vermont on this. they have been a great help and we have a blog. we invite you to go to it. i am doing that with joe thorned iq's just about finished with a book about taxes and the roosevelt era. >> host: mr. baker, what about you? what is next? >> guest: i am caught up in the debates today about financial reform, financial transactions but i do have a book coming out, taking economic seriously which is to my mind beating up the conservative set their own game because what i tried to point out in this book is that in fact the conservatives are people really very much wanting government intervention. they just want up to it. to give a couple of examples, bill gates is a wealthy man not because of the free market but because the government will rest me if i start this jim thing copies of windows without his permission. copyright, government intervention in the economy. drugs, prescription drugs. they are very expensive

calvin coolidge, served as the secretary of commerce through all of the coolidge presidency said that man has been giving me advice for all these years all of the combatant. [laughter] and when he became president, he had very little use for the leadership in both houses of congress not only the democrats but of his own party and they return to this at the end of his presidency he said it is a route. we've come to the end of the string. there's almost nobody we can count on. and subsequently, not only was hoover a pariah to democrats, 82 democrats to this day are able to bring out as a warning to the american people at election time but by his own party, by the figures such as thomas dewey, and when finally his career was at long last resurrected was not by republican but a democratic president, harry truman who among other things this fall that he was asked to hit relief missions overseas. he became the head of a commission on the organization of the executive branch subsequently he had that same rule under president eisenhower who but he never liked eisenhower, never liked the repub

coolidge and have been working with the calvin coolidge memorial foundation in vermont.en a great help and we have a blog. we invite you to go to it. i'm doing that with joe for a bike just about finishing a book about taxes in the roosevelt era. >> host: mr. baker what about you? what's next? >> guest: what's next. well, i got caught up in the debate today about financial reform, financial transactions tax but i have another book taking economics seriously, which is to my mind sort of beating up the conservative set their own game because i try to point out in this book that in fact the conservatives are people who saw themselves as conservative three much want government intervention they just don't hold up to it so to get a couple examples bill gates is a very wealthy man not because the free-market but he's a wealthy man because the government will addressed me if i start distributing copies of windows without bill gates permission copyright, he has a copyright this government intervention economy. drugs, prescription drugs, they are expensive. we are projected to sp

for a while, companies like coke and calvin klein, thinking second life would be the next big thing,ned virtual outposts there. it didn't work. marketing real goods in virtual worlds never really took off. but rosedale says that creating a viable marketplace was never his point. he wanted something else, to rewrite the rules of interaction between human beings. >> i think that our society today, you know, we are alienated from each other and from the world around us. when people come together in a virtual world, we immediately become more social, and more connected, and more dependent on each other. i think that when people go into virtual worlds, the sense of being physically near each other causes them to behave much better than they do, say, in email. or instant messaging. that's an interesting phenomenon. >> rushkoff: rosedale holds up his own workplace as a model for this more intimate, more tender online culture. >> so, you know, we all do sit open without any cubicles or anything here. >> rushkoff: he's instituted something called "the love machine", through which his employee

was speaker we had the lowest increase in government spending and putting the entitlements since calvinin the 1920's and we had a very simple -- we actually cut taxes while abolishing the budget, the opposite of the presidents model. frankly if you raise taxes they just spend more and we did the opposite. and what we did was very straightforward. i will close this but i think it's an example of communication. every wednesday night we had dinner with 15 or 12 ceos of big companies and say to them we want to balance the federal budget and that is a two or $300 billion a year change to meet the standard of the biggest company of america this was an enormous undertaking. and i would say in your experience as a manager what is the key to the large skill change? the history rules interesting again and again it came up. the first rule was set very big goals with a very short deadlines. the second rule was still like it like crazy because you need lots and lots of people trying to get it done. the third was don't let any experts in the room because they will just tell you what you can't do. now

i think it was calvin coolidge that said that which you never say can never be held against you.es, if you disagree, just go on and do your thing and let everybody try to get on board and achieve our goal. >> i am don curtis from florida. a reporter began to ask me a myriad of questions about all kinds of conservative issues and where the tea party is. my question to you is, do you think the tea party movement will mature into being the big tent for conservative ideas? will it be brought and become more mainstream -- a broad -- will it become broad and become more mainstream? >> where we will be one year from now, no one knows. we need to -- and i >> we need to not touch social issues -- >> we don't need to touch social issues. will republican, democrat, libertarian, every person across the spectrum. i think that we need to stay focused on that. if we stay focused on those issues and unite, i think we will be more successful. [applause] >> i would like to address this and last question to the other. i have been asked a lot about divisiveness. Ñiçómy answer has always been, s conv

both -- and he is more like calvin coolidge. host: next call republican line from syracuse.s, i think between the senate and the congress -- they came up with a discretionary grant yesterday. there is really none of sustainable long-term jobs at all. i do not see any recovery in the recovery act. host: we are getting a lot of what your assessment of the stimulus package. what is yours? guest: obviously, it has not worked. we will come out of this mess but not because of government stimulus programs. it will be because of american small businesses that will come back and the strength of the private enterprise system. you can create a chevalier -- government job by taking money from one taxpayer in giving it to another. you cannot do it next year because that is not self sustaining. we in government policy should make it possible for the private sector to function as much as possible. we should not have political favors passed out. i do not think this has worked or is likely to work. >host: which you have supported the passage of the stimulus act or the tarp fund? guest: no. h

richard calvin reid, the islamic terrorist, nicknamed the shoe bomber, who also came through our regular robert rudolph, convicted of the 1996 olympic park bombing. dwight york, ramiz yusef, the world trade center bombing is in center. we can hold these people. h. brown is in this prison. thomas silverstein -- mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? mr. hastings: no, i will not yield. howard mason, a drug trafficker who ordered the murder of a police officer named burn, a leading member of the brotherhood. why are you telling me we can't hold people in supermax? we can hold them in guantanamo. we can hold them in supermax, and we can do everything that is required of us as a nation in order to protect ourselves in that regard. but what has happened in this institution is you've given the american public a chance to believe that they would be afraid if you held them in certain institutions in your neighborhood. well, they've come through your neighborhood an awful lot and you evidently didn't know about it because i personally am just a little tired of your not in my backyard attitude about

host: calvin on the republican line in north carolina. good morning. caller: good morning.hat the people got to do. you have a job, and that's your job. and black people have been themselves ever since black been themselves. it is not a rainfall -- racism thing, it is a thing that had to be kept in a certain perspective. that way the middle class can stay where they are and the poor can stay where they are at. we are listening to things we shouldn't be listening to. it should be dealt with in another way. what we're concerned with is the wealth the middle class, the poor people, and the people are telling us that is needed. host: chicago. democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. i'm a first-time caller. i'm basically calling regarding the tea party. one of the previous callers stated the tea party was a racist organization. however, i'm not saying that every one in the tea party is a racist person. the face of the tea party appears to be racist. the images that we receive, the comments that tom tancredo made, who himself is from an immigrant background.

the speaker we had the slowest increase in government spending and putting the entitlements since calvinoolidge in the 1920's and we had a very simple -- we actually cut taxes while balancing the budget, the office of the presidents model. frankly if you raise taxes they spend them. and we did the opposite and what we did was very straightforward. i will close this but it is an example of communication. every wednesday night we have dinner with japan or 12 ceos of big companies and say to them we want to balance the federal budget and that is a two or 300 billion-dollar a year change the standard of the biggest company of america this is an enormous undertaking. and i would say in your experience as a manager with is the key to very large shane? the three pools, it's interesting. again and again it came back. the first rule was set very big goals with a very short deadlines. the second rule was delegate like crazy because you need lots and lots of people trying to get it done and the third was don't let any experts in the room because they will tell you what you can't do. now john come t

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i think it was calvin coolidge said, that which you never say can never be held against you., go on, do your thing, and let everybody try and work and achieve our goals. >> i am don curtis from perry, as florida. and reporters have asked me questions about all kinds of conservative issues and with the tea party is. my question to you is, do you think the movement will mature into being a big tent for conservative ideas? will it be broad and become more mainstream, with all kinds of conservative ideas? >> you know, as i said earlier, the tea party was not even going a year ago. where we will be a year from now, nobody knows. right now, we need to focus on the values of limited government and free market. we do not touch social issues, because when we do, that is when you lose people and by people. there are republicans, democrats, independents, and libertarians across the spectrum. those are the issues that unite us now, and we need to stay focused on that. wherever this road takes us, it has got to be seen. but if we stay focused and unite and work together towards bringing b