dr. edward sondik, and dr. michael o'grady who is with the university of chicago national opinion research center . gary joins us from roanoke, virginia. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i appreciate what you are talking about. my mother suffers. a concern that i have is the young teenage violence that i notice everyday, regardless of what location you go ahe. it seems like some house some type of money could be focused on this because that is -- somehow, some type of money could be focused on this because that is our future. i am astounded by what i see on teenagers being killed, kidnapped, shot, and so forth. i think the world is not balanced the that well. that is something to look at, so some of these people could live a longer life, and give more back to our society, and 12 government in a tax pain bracket. iraq -- give back to our government in a tax paying bracket. i appreciate what you do. host: i want to go back to michael o'grady. if you look at this figure, and i will summarize, but

dr. edward hope, orthopedic surgeon, ann arundel county medical center, says the spiral leg fracture he is seeing are not freak occurrences. it happens when toddlers go down the slide on the lap of their parents and their feet get caught and made worse by the force of mom or dad riding behind. >> the foot is twisted this way, rotated kwroáu out-- outward and it causes the crack and spiral to perform. >> they are warning parents about dangers and wants them to lend a hand and not a seat on their lap. will is a youtube psa, and a flier, they want it posted on parks all over the area for moms and dads to see. if you want to check out the youtube video, or pass along the warning flier he made, head to our web site at abc 2 news .com and click on the health tab if you want to check it out. >>> week one of dr. conrad murray's involuntary manslaughter trial wraps up in los angeles. michael jackson's personal physician accused of giving the pop star a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol. andrew spencer has more. >> reporter: new moments of panic in the jackson home. the pop star's director of l

dr. edward sondik, and dr. michael o'grady who is with the university of chicago national opinion research center . gary joins us from roanoke, virginia. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i appreciate what you are talking about. my mother suffers. a concern that i have is the young teenage violence that i notice everyday, regardless of what location you go ahe. it seems like some house some type of money could be focused on this because that is -- somehow, some type of money could be focused on this because that is our future. i am astounded by what i see on teenagers being killed, kidnapped, shot, and so forth. i think the world is not balanced the that well. that is something to look at, so some of these people could live a longer life, and give more back to our society, and 12 government in a tax pain bracket. iraq -- give back to our government in a tax paying bracket. i appreciate what you do. host: i want to go back to michael o'grady. if you look at this figure, and i will summarize, but

dr. edwards. >> i think this goes to the right point. because we are haven for international capital and a dangerous world, the american policy makers have been able to run a vote -- running giant deficits for far too long. a smaller country like australia, the debt crisis would already have happened. in a story on bloomberg, italy has been downgraded. and the s&p noted that they were downgraded because they have a dysfunctional political system. that seems to be what is going on in the united states. canada, again, to do back to the 1990's. they hit the law and ours is up to 100% of gdp. we have been skating along because we are in this special situation. japan shows that you can run as a zombie and economy for a decade or two. the real damage is ultimately the spending. we have to get spending under control. that has been the key to success in places like canada and sweden that have cut their deficits. >> thank you. the key is to restore consumer and business confidence by getting our financial house in order with a credible way to shr

dr. edwards. >> i think this goes to the right point. because we are haven for international capital and a dangerous world, the american policy makers have been able to run a vote -- running giant deficits for far too long. a smaller country like australia, the debt crisis would already have happened. in a story on bloomberg, italy has been downgraded. and the s&p noted that they were downgraded because they have a dysfunctional political system. that seems to be what is going on in the united states. canada, again, to do back to the 1990's. they hit the law and ours is up to 100% of gdp. we have been skating along because we are in this special situation. japan shows that you can run as a zombie and economy for a decade or two. the real damage is ultimately the spending. we have to get spending under control. that has been the key to success in places like canada and sweden that have cut their deficits. >> thank you. the key is to restore consumer and business confidence by getting our financial house in order with a credible way to shr

dr. lee edwards who is heritage scholar at the heritage foundation for the center for american studies writing a book called "the conservative revolution." the movement that remade america. why this is a really good complement to nash's book is this book is more of the chronological history of the political movement since 1945. with nash you get the fill soft l call -- philosophical stuff, and lee edwards gives you the cronology. there's the first conservative from modern elected official in government from ohio. he talks about mr. conservative, barry goldwater running for president in 1964 for the republican nomination, and to some of the old-timers too, that's where they got their start working on the goldwater campaign, and then mr. president, ronald reagan, and his importance of the movement personifying that, and the fourth, mr. speaker, talking about newt gingrich in the 1994 republican revolution where the republicans for the first time were -- which was a conservative revolution in many respects, took over congress for the first time in 40 years. the third book that i use for the histo

dr. lee edwards is a heritage scholar at the heritage foundation for the center for american studies. he wrote a book called the conservative revolution. the movement that remade america. why this is a good complement to nash's book is this book is more of the chronological political history of the movement since 1945. you kind of get philosophical stuff. with lee edward you get the political chronology. he goes through using four individuals in the conservative movement. the first is senator robert calf from ohio. the first unofficial conservative elected official in government. he talks about mr. conservative, barry goldwater. ran for president in 1964 in the republican nomination. to some of the old-timers that is where they got their start working on the barry goldwater campaign. and ronald reagan and why he was so important in the chronology of the conservative movement and how he personified that. the fourth, mr. speaker, talking about newt gingrich in the republican revolution when the republicans for the first time which was a conservative revolution in many respects took over

dr. meltzer and mr. edwards to respond, we are a long way away from that. look at treasury debt right now. it is dropping down below 1.9% and soth, the ns .. there, there is a tremendous appetite for treasury debt. this is an indication that we are a long way from that tipping point. what either of you like to respond to that? >> first, i would say the size of the unfunded mandate does not -- is thought included in most of the numbers that we talk seven timessix to the size of the deficit, depending on what interest rate you use. that is an enormous amount, just as the chart shows. mr. ball and i agree. is the medicare and medicaid expenditure -- if is the medicare and medicaid expenditure that is going to cause the problem. it pales in in significance compared to medicare and medicaid. there are a lot of things that we can do. and they do not require taking away promised benefits to people. for example, and one of many examples, we have to ask why do we spend about 50% of the medicare money on people who within six months of dying, now they don't all die,

edwards, i will start with you, dr. meltzer, i would also like to get your opinion. >> we do not know where the tipping point is, where the next financial crisis is. recent economic research points out that other countries are sort of hitting that wall in different places. japan possum debt is 200% of gdp, has been for a couple of decades. they are in a unique situation because most of the savings of that debt comes domestically. as the cdo points out in their long-range predictions, in the future, if we keep this up, we will be producing gdp, but a bigger and bigger chunk of that will not be going to americans but to foreign creditors. that is why our standard of living will be suppressed by this buildup of debt. i must say, hitting the tipping point -- that is not the end of the story. ireland hit the tipping point but recent news reports are indicating that they have taken very good policy actions cutting spending and on the brink of recovery. they are in a much different situation than greece even though both countr

guy the guy that well or very governor perry is going to execute tomorrow duane edward box according to terri's expert dr walter. is getting the death penalty in texas in order to get the death penalty you have to prove that a person has what's called future dangerousness and this fellow is testimony said that he deserved the death penalty because and i'm quoting now from perry's expert witness he's african-american and the race factor being black increases the future dangerousness and that's why this guy's been executed rather than life in prison for murder texas skipping just just last night. texas says that oh yes you have to have this this this future dangerousness is this typical texas justice. well i don't know how typical it is of all texas justice and certainly again you've just put your finger on really an outrageous flaw in the death penalty process that governor perry was so proud of in that debate i mean the idea. that somebody can determine how dangerous you will be in the future with such a certainty that it could be used as a reason to kill somebody rather than simply imprison somebody is

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. >> edward is joining us here on washington, d.c. good morning. >> caller: dr. jack hayes, good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: yes, i often wonder when they have difficulty predicting the intensity of these storms. i'm a scientist and i was just wondering are they extracting enough information from the thermal energy that these storms are picking up, generally from the oceans that strike a lot of energy from the oceans? are we tracking those systems real time in the satellite? i know it's a satellite tracking right now. how do you feel about that? >> guest: you know more about what we do than the average person. because you are right on the mark with your concerns. the problems that we have with intensity are related to what's going on at ocean surface, and what's going on in the cloud in the tropical storm or the hurricane eye. and how do get information out of center of the storm? in fact, what we have is a program within noaa today, hurricane improvement forecast, we are using data and satellite data that fly airplanes into storms like irene with

dr. elmendorf was the senior fellow in the economic studies program at workings institution. the edwardnstein scholar he served as coeditor of the brookings papers on economic activity and the director of the hamilton project and initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth. he has served as assistant professor at harvard university, a principal analyst at the congressional budget office, senior economist at the white house council of economic advisers, deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department, and an assistant director of the division of research institutes dates at the federal reserve board. in those positions.realm in darfur has gained a wide range of expertise on budget policy, social security, medicare, national health care reform, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting and many other topics. so i'm very glad that he has agreed to join our committee here today. dr. elmendorf thank you so much for taking the time and helping us get through this and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you senator murray, congressman