it produces instability, etc. in many parts of the muslim world, it presents another problem, which is the youth has been growing much faster than the economy scan. and many of these government run bloated inefficient economies cannot produce jobs to keep up with the use. so the consequence is that the pie gets, you know, divided in ever smaller slices and you end up with more and more poverty, lack of mobility, and you could say some of that translates, if not into radicalism and terrorism, it just translates into anger. and the anger can manifest itself in many different ways. we site in iran in june of last year. we see it in varieties of other peoples around the muslim. now the question is, how can you create -- how can you change this scenario? you can always been money on the worst of the worst, right? so the very bottom of the society you can get money for health care, etc. but that's not really providing a sustainable economy that can grow at a pace to address this, addressed the problem. and the only way

mail consultant, etc., etc. they cost money. need to pay people and you need to be able to do that anytime the fashion and you need to have very talented people working with you. so it's crucial that you learn how to do this and that you embrace it. what happens if you don't learn how to do it on what happens if you work for a campaign that does not have to raise money, doesn't want to do it, that wants to have yard signs and loves bulletins and doesn't want to spend time on the phone asking people for money, which is really rolling up your sleeves kind of work? you're not going to be able to connect with people. instead of seven male pieces you will send out to. so you're only going to reach a certain amount of people. you're not going to be able to pay people so no one will work for you. you're going to have your cousin to your direct mail who's never done it, and it's going to look bad. and you're going to lose. so raising money is crucial. it is a huge part of a campaign. let's go into events that i said i would go back to t

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to be ways of making this a win-win for everyone, so there is more spectrum available for broadband, etc everyone agrees, spectrum is the oxygen for broadband. there has been an explosion in mobile communications. that is the long answer to your short question. >> you mentioned broadcasters last week on this program. here is a low bid from gordon smith. >> if they take broadcast spectrum and some of the trial balloon proposals are to stack tv stations in a way that will only destroy the high- definition project, it would take away the multi channel availability and eliminate the future of mobile tv. we think that in the digital -- did your tv should not be sacrificed on the altar of the digital drive -- digital tv should not be sacrificed. >> my own view is that if it turns out that what viewers and consumers want is any particular use of the spectrum, i think we should have it. i do not see why b.g.e. is fine with me if it turns out people want to have hundreds of megahertz. i would rather the fcc not be in the business of making that decision. >> how would you get from where we are in

., etc..and so i think the reaction to the book was quite interesting, and the the date we are having now. it's relevant to exactly what i talked about especially the last chapter of the book that talks about policy recommendations. >> host: you're first book, michelle malkin, invasion written in 2002, how america still welcomes tourists, criminals and other foreign ministers to the shore. you detail in one of the chapters you detail some of the deficiencies of the immigration service and getting into this country very relevant today with a christmas bombing. >> guest: no question about it and one of the things i thought was very important about "invasion" is it to a systemic look at our immigration lapses. it wasn't just about illegal immigration from the northern and southern borders, and a lot of the date about immigration today is hyper focused on the southern border. of course that is i huge issue but it's not the only issue when it comes to treating immigration as a national security con

she is a hypocrite and a not a lover, etc. etc.. ..ropaganda to paint all of the tax revolters as somehow, you know, fascistic or racists. .... >> and now all of a sudden they are manufacturing outrage about this. is to borrow what the previous caller said about the book, that says more about them than it does about me. >> host: much in jackson whaley. thanks for holding. you are on with michelle malkin. please go ahead. >> caller: happy new year to both of you. you know, michelle, i'm a true liberal. i don't judge you by your skin color or your background, or you're a female. i judge you by your mindset and your philosophy you know, you can go and talk about corruption but never think about why was the bin laden family allowed to fly out of the country right after 9/11. about the only people allowed to fly out of this country. why did bush allow malan to get out of bora bora? why do you investigate cheney when he had halliburton dealing with iran. >> host: what do you think the answer is why to those questions is? >> caller: because s

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we do have some rating factors being the age, area, etc. etc. that can change some of the rights. we do have a research pool behind the scenes. by this piece has been very important for us. it helps with the adverse selection so that the marketplace is not trying to make decisions based on risk. that's what john and tim have talked about has been very, very important. as a backdrop, that has been very important for us and a lot of things are included in both the state -- both the federal bill and the house and the senate. some of the lessons as we move forward, i talked about a little about the adverse selection. we have tried to avoid adverse selection from day one. one of the problems is if you're simply looking for administrative expenses, and just as they did ministered expenses we have a real problem. because even in the bills that they talk about in the group marketplace they are looking for an 85% loss ratio, even if you save a little bit there you're not hitting the 80 or 85% which is a claims dollar. that's would have to look at. you've got to try to figure out how can we

is hard to measure who uses them, because the real things we measure our are people making payments, etc., but those are still in place, and frankly, generally we need to do them. i want to make sure our people do not run a faceless bureaucracy, but that each person we deal with we treat with respect. >> i am curious how that squares and with the report that came out this past week from the tax payer advocate the talk about the liens placed on properties. she had written in the report they were up 475% last year over the previous decade. i believe it was close to 1 million property liens filed on -- federal tax liens filed on property last year. how does that fit with a nicer, friendlier irs? >> i want to make sure, i nicer, friendlier, gentler irs is your words. i want an irs and meet people based on their individual circumstances. it is fair and evenhanded with the american public. our collection area is one of the most difficult areas we have sent the irs, because we have a job to do. in general, if someone has a tax debt and they are not paying that, we have to make sure they pay, an

., etc., etc.. and we depend actually, we despite the big lie that says small-business is so much better on things that matter like our health and survival we tend to depend on big business is the most hospitals and insurance companies and drug companies, most medical device companies are emphatically big businesses. and it's good that they are. the notion that small-business is inherently more effective, shows more integrity? do you remember the story that came out earlier this year about it was a neighborhood cemetery where they were burying the people three deep and abuses the corpses. it was a chicago area. a traditional african american summit triet at hill had been built there. that was a mom-and-pop cemetery. it would be tougher for the forest lawn to get away with that kind of thing, some kind of big cemetery business. the truth is the prejudice, the law that says small business is inherently better than big business is sentimental, misleading and it's stupid and it leads to abominations' li

the owners of etc they are paying the full private cost of their activities. they have to buy the fuels' that sector. the market as a good job of reflecting the private cost but the social cost of their actions eide i am assuming fernald the scientific consensus about global warming is correct, the social costs in terms of rising temperatures which are going to be borne by future generations the private market misses those out completely. so what magoo said was what we need, the way to address that is basically use taxes. he called them extraordinary restraint but especially a way of correcting the market failure by forcing the polluters, in this case, to pay some of the costs of their business. they are going to cut down on carbon emissions so that is a form of market failure and a solution there. but there are lots of other forms. lots of them have to do with information problems and health care for example. it topical example. what is wrong with health care? we see a lot wrong with that but two things that come to basic economic problems. one is an informat

you need someone to design the airplane, you need someone to design the interior, etc. etc. etc. and we did then actually, we despite the big light assist small business is so much better. things that really matter like our health, like our survival, we tend to depend on big businesses. most hospitals, most insurance companies most medical device companies are emphatically big businesses. it's good that they are. the notion that small business is inherently more effective shows more integrity, if you remember that story came out earlier this year about -- it was a neighborhood cemetery where they were burying the people 3-d and abusing the corpses in the chicago area. it was a traditional african-american cemetery. and emmett till had been very different that was a mom-and-pop cemetery. it would be tougher for forced long to get away with that kind of thing. some kind of big cemetery business. the truth is that the prejudice, the light is a small business and actually better than big business is sentimental, stupid, it leads to abominations like antitrust law. we've been close to

., etc. so they really indication of always going to happen, though i don't think the american public or anyone else would realize that what seem like temporary punishment would turn in to the beginning of the state policy of extermination. but at that point, american public opinion was overwhelmingly against what the germans had done, even though they were still at the same time and tight jews at home. so it was an odd mixture. somehow lindbergh did cross the line, from what was initially a perfectly reasonable assumption that the germans were too powerful and we couldn't beat them. and he simply said, look, these guys are going to win the war in europe, why are you taking all these risks? they are going to win. which is not an unreasonable position to take it at the time. but it was build on as infrastructure of anti-semitism and other feelings, which i'll be seeing when he unwittingly, i suppose, expose them come a they finally turned him loose. >> so we have been talking perhaps there is

etc, etc. soberly and idea but actually i do.one of the issues i think for me then is the question of which banaa brought up concerns me a lot and this is where as scholars we ought to put enormous pressure is the question of quality in google books. how do you judge quality? one of the ways in which people often like my you flee to judge is to have faith in the old books. those old books and this is what got me into this problem in the first place is that is the faith in the project that said we will now load all these old books on to the net. what to remember is in the late 19th century is the home of some of the most atrocious publishing that ever happened. and those books hockley have been put out of the reach of most ennis and readers. if you are a scholar and want to look that bad additions you can find them but they are not the first copy that you will put your hand on. why are they the first copy? most libraries in fact have the through a -- inouye when doing system and move them into different repositories and you have t

from the national security adviser etc. so it is a really light way of breaking down how ridiculous it can sound sometimes when people are asked that question. but even in the case of mrs. clinton having to put herself in but i called the campaign uniform beginning in when she ran for the senate and elizabeth dole was trying the same year in north carolina and their husbands had run against each other for years earlier for the presidency, and is anyone in this room going to questioned? the intelligence or the credentials or above the fides of hillary clinton or elizabeth dole, to of the only women in their classes had careers in their own right, and it had to win back the interest of coverage by sort of wearing the campaign uniform and the campaign yet from here do and as i observed i never see the store is not a bad clovers and beer bellies in congress and there are many. the other thing that's going on and 2010 that i see as being very hospitable to folks who want to run for office who maybe have never run for office is i

to get the federal site and that led to success and various military bases and federal facilities, etc. it is not easy. it is a challenge. overcoming that challenge will generate greater amount of benefits than a piece meal approach. the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. did i say that right? the sum of the whole is greater than the parts. >> in the back? let me mention while she is getting back there, we have callers calling in as well. we may jump to a caller in between if we have to. go ahead. >> i am suzanne watt with the american council for an efficient economy. we toyed with the theory for a long time. one of the organizing factors that is prevalent is in play now and is a national energy efficiency resource standard. eers. similar to an rps, but this is a national energy efficiency standard. this is something if we all got behind account perhaps happen. almost 50% of the states have an eers in play. one out of the national standard to rally behind. >> i'm not in the position to address that in terms of national policy. i work with the federal agencies. i think there i

much more flexible, pragmatic, able to reinvent itself, etc. the thing is what maoism did, i mean, he blew away some of the worst aspects of the hierarchical and inegalitarian nature of the imperial confucian tradition. for example, women were really subjugated, and if you look at now, you can see extraordinary prominence of women i think in china given a relatively developing country. this is a legacy with the 1949 revolution. so there were certain fundamental things that mao did to change china, which created the possibilities of what's happened, especially since 1978. so i do regard, i think there's a direct line of continuity to what mao did and what's happened since 1970, even central central planning and all that has gone up in smoke. the other point i was going to make in this context was i think ultimately to succeed, the congress regime has had to align itself with a lot of confucian. the trick, the legitimacy as bushy since 1978 of the congress regime has been its ability to articulate the confucian tradition into the modern period.

telecommuting has many benefits that affect productivity and a positive way and the environment, etc. we will see how detailed it actually is. >> cecilia kang is also joining us today. >> does that mean the commission has to vote on the national broad been planned before is submitted to congress and approved by the five commissioners? >> i am not sure there will be a vote. the statute says that they shall present it to congress. there are a number of ways historically that the commission has delivered reports and other documents of significance to congress. unless it's specifically says the commission showboat and all commissioners showboat, i think it -- shell both -- the commission and all commissioners shall vote, a vote probably is not required. there is always a chance there could be a democratic dissent. there are five commissioners, and it is possible there could be concurrences and dissents as well. >> i find it interesting that there is this lack of clarity on the process, given there has been so much attention by the commission and chairman on making sure the process works w

., etc.. and we depend actually, despite the big lie that says small business is so much better. on things that matter like our health, survival we tend to depend on the business. most hospitals and insurance companies and drug companies, most medical device companies are infinitely the businesses. and it's good that they are. the notion that small business is inherently more effective shows more integrity. do you remember the story that came out earlier this year about a neighborhood cemetery where they were burying the people three bet and using the corpses. it was in the chicago area. a traditional african-american cemetery and emmett till had been buried there. there was a mom-and-pop cemetery. it would be tougher for forest lawn to get away with, some kind of big cemetery business. the truth is the prejudice, the lie that small business is inherently better than the business is sentimental, it is misleading and it's stupid it leads to abominations' like anti-trust law week. we spend close

we also see them around other cities as buses, etc..is the result in maintenance and affordability guest: on these that is one of the best stories that i have heard on these because the biggest cost for buses is breaks. utilizing regenerative braking, there is actually less physical breaking going on. they are saving money on maintenance bills because of regenerative braking. host: sarah, independent line. caller: i have been interested in the funding aspect. i have been following a vehicle that was developed in california that has three wheels instead of four. and apparently, because they do not have four wheels, they cannot get the funding that other manufacturers get. this is not logical and i'm wondering what i can do to get the government to -- host: what part of california? caller: i believe it is in the san diego area. it is called the aptera. it is very aeronaut -- aerodynamically designed and i would like to buy one. and i refuse to buy anything from general motors of thought -- as long as bob lutz -- host: ok, we will get a re

the real things that we measure our if they are making payments, etc. but those are still in place and frankly those are things we need to be doing. i want to make sure that our people are not simply running a nameless, faceless procuracy, but that each person is treated as an individual and respectfully. >> i am curious about how that squares with this report that talked about taxpayer advocacy and liens on property. they wrote in the report that they were up 475% last year over the previous decade. something close to 1 million property tax liens last year. how does that square with a nicer, friendlier, kinder irs? >> first of all, those are your words. i want an irs that meets people based on their individual circumstance, that is fair and evenhanded with the american public. collections is one of the most difficult areas that we have. we have a job to do. in general the american people expect people to have a tax debt in that they are not paying and that we make sure that they do. not so that money comes into the government, but so that these people

opponent who looks like an ape is called fascism, nazi is a, unemployment people in tolera e tolerance, etc.. at any moment be critical of what roosevelt did even though they would be against thing of the attorney general was doing or others. he doesn't know what his ministers are up to. for of the war they refuse to be critical of him in any way. one of the surprising things is the degree to which the right-wing press, they make today's republicans look good, was on the extreme right to the degree they were fondling willingly or not the german propaganda line. dr. seuss and the others constantly had cartoons in which they showed the voice of girls -- the hearst press just to give two examples, when the government was established in 1940, the hearst press this shows europe will be able to cooperate under german leadership. they really bought the burbles line completely or came to independently. i can't say which is which since we don't have information on that but they would constantly come up with arguments that were parallel to those agreements. when the russians and germans went to work

work for amnesty international or work for the progressive magazine, etc. etc.. right stuff and get published and that sort of thing. some of us are lucky and can do that but most people cannot so what most people do you make a living in whatever way you can it so long as you don't kill people and exploit people, fiendishly, but to make a living whatever way you can but carve out part of your life and part of your time to be a citizen of the nation and of the world. it's harder, you have to do two things. it's like a woman who has to take care of kids into a job at the same time here and all of us have to do two things at once. that's the reality of it. [applause] >> thank you. >> howard zinn was a political scientist and wrote "original zinn: conversations on history and politics" and "a people's history of the united states". he d january 27th, 2010 at the age of 87. where did you come up with the name of your book, lift every voice? >> justin thinking about the kind of history i was writing about, it was a way to try to organize every one around of the movemen

work for a nonprofit support amnesty international or a progressive magazine, etc., etc. right to good stuff and get published and that sort of thing. some of us are lucky we can do that the most people cannot. you make a living whatever way you can so long as you don't kill people and exploit people fiendishly but you make a living whatever way you can but car about parsed out your life and time to be a citizen of the nation and of the world. but it is harder. you have to do two things. like the woman who lost to take care of kids and end to a job at the same time all of us have to do that and that is the reality. thank you. [applause] >> we're at west a virginia university about the book is the welfare state justified? let's start at the end. is it justified? >> probably not. but i should explain by what i mean by that. first, what i mean by the welfare state, programs like national health insurance, social security and government welfare. when i say probably not, what i do with the book which is interesting i look at the values and principles of people who defend the w

women talk to other women and report issues of domestic violence or drug use, etc.host: let's go to chris from maryland. caller: c-span never used to screen calls all the time. now it seems to be pushing this type of socialist or marxist propaganda. there is the quiet revolution which rose ford by timothy mathews and explains what this woman is pushing. she is pushing a socialist marxist ideal within her society. >> first of all, we screener colors to make sure that you have gone 30 days between phone calls to make -- we screen our callers to make sure that you have gone 30 days between phone calls. we want everybody to have a chance. >> i can answer the question. there is no culture in the world in which women do not want to have an influence in the decisions that affect our lives. i do a lot of work in sudan and darfur. people say that it is not culturally appropriate. that is wrong. there are women involved in decision making there may not be women as president of the country. if they're not seen any formal decision making position, they think they are not there.

., etc. and he went to lord robinson who was lucius clay's counterpart in the first lucius clay was against the airlift, he thought was impossible. and he wanted to use an armored column down the 110 miles from the western zone so when roberts and talked about an airlift first he said it's impossible. it's absolutely impossible and robertson and then the foreign minister of britain, both said well we're going to do it any way and it is certainly going to be embarrassing that americans can't do with all they had what we can do with nothing and clay get the right answer which is a line with you. but the british were amazing in that more of brits died in the airlift than americans partly because their planes were even worse shape and they have larger crews. they had four men in a plan where we had three so when their planes crashed they tended to have a higher casualty rate but i, for one who i suppose was a bit of an anglophobe came away with an enormous respect. the english to me are so intere

there on specific products, etc. -- they are on specific products, and etc. part of this is wto disciplines. but a buteo -- the wto disciplines a lot more on developing countries ban on their lunch countries. they could raise taxes on water and still stay the buteo compliant. the buteo disciplines are still out there because of the possible threat of dispute settlement. but i think in the end -- wto disciplines are still out there because of the possible threat of dispute settlements. but in the end, i think it is not the threat of the disciplines that are out there that can be gotten around in various ways. it is about two things. it is about the memory of what happened before and it is about the political pressure. i happen to believe, and i wrote about nine months ago on this issue, that if we had not managed to control the global recession and the possibility of depression that occurred that the protectionist pressures would have become very great and in some cases, perhaps, overwhelming. this is one important factor. if you believe desmond, then be very

apoyo al gobierno, mientras los gobiernos de mÉxico sean democrÁticos y reformistas, transparentes etctaÑeda es que no creo que el presidente calderÓn tomó esta posiciÓn de guerra vamos a decir contra narcotrÁfico, voluntariamente no tenÍa otro remedio porque el narcotrÁfico es un peligro tan fuerte para la estabilidad y la democracia de los paÍses que no tenÍa otro remedio que atacarÁ narcotrÁfico. >> quisiera terminar con 10 segundos cada uno sirven a la oportunidad de darle un consejo a obama que dirÍa? >> te recuerde que lo que ocurriÓ en 2009, el comenzó pensando que podÍa lidiar con personas, con demagogos francamente como hugo chÁvez, hablando con ellos, dÁndole la mano y sonriendo. y esas personas no quieren un diÁlogo con los estados unidos. quiere destruir el sistema que representa estados unidos. >> canciller que le consejo le darÍa a obama? >> el debate h@h@univisional pÚ se debe evitar y tiene que terminar. >> gracias por est con nosotros les agradezco vamos hacer una pausa y el volver este zelaya del censo este aÑo nos creen contra todos los que vivimos en los estados uni

etc.. it what we did with great step forward is pushing those back into the past. partly because of the effect of copyright laws but also -- that is where the library is. google should think nothing about it. i have gone on far too long but a couple points on why it is difficult to criticize. it is absolutely wonderful. i hate to be without it. one of the worrying things about the department of justice guidelines is it wants to push back the specific view for a lot of us. the thought that all books will go back to that is does times. i don't support the settlement but that is one reason we should think about it. i have this problem of criticizing all these people, how do you criticize? it is like a high-school bake sale. that surely isn't the issue. i don't think we should pass it up. there's a lot of money and a lot of library resources that have gone into this and an awful lot in the opportunity costs that have been found out that i will never open again. free isn't good enough for me. one of the things that makes it difficult is a remarkable chameleons character

therefore, they also want the reliability of fiber, though, or of other broadband technologies, co-ax, etc., because of the speed and reliability. so to fill in the gap of that last 5 or 8%, whatever the number is, will be difficult. earlier in 2009 i went to alaska in the winter, early march, where it's 55 below. we're recording this on a very cold day in washington, we're complaining when it's 20-some degrees, but it was very cold there. and they have a lot of challenges when it comes to broadband. really satellite is their only option due to the harsh weather condition. it's very difficult to make a landing there. it's a coastal town right on the beautiful arctic ocean. but so satellite for some fills in that gap. i want to the make sure we don't forget about satellite because there are parts of america that just get nothing else but that. and it has limitations, satellite technology does, but we need to look at what we can do to make that better for consumers who are, have that as their only option as well. >> host: your comments actually echo some comments made by the white house and

for example, of middle eastern history and a of background, etc.. what brought you to this field? would you consider yourself to be objective and only suede of the learning the you have had that do you have any sort of prejudice into the process or have you lost any in your

food prices, the oil prices, etc.. >> thanks for that. >> i'm not sure that i can do 10 words but my theme is still education, particularly about innovation. i will give you a quote from a political leader. i think that i will get the whole thing right but all of those that have meditated on the art of governing mankind and the fate of empires depends on education. was that obama? was that bush, was that clinton? it was aristotle. there is not a lot of new news here,'s. -- there's not a lot of news. we need to get the government understanding that technology. >> what is the prediction? >> my prediction is that the public is becoming more empowered and more educated. innovation would become faster and more easily acceptable because of the crisis that we have and that is a good thing. my prediction is that things will get better. >> i think there has been a national and global debate for years and it has been a slightly ta different debate about the innovation strategies and policies. too many people are out of work today. i think that there are too many diseases than me to be cured. i

food prices, the oil prices, etc.. >> thanks for that. >> i'm not sure that i can do 10 words but my theme is still education, particularly about innovation. i will give you a quote from a political leader. i think that i will get the whole thing right but all of those that have meditated on the art of governing mankind and the fate of empires depends on education. was that obama? was that bush, was that clinton? it was aristotle. there is not a lot of new news here,'s. -- there's not a lot of news. we need to get the government understanding that technology. >> what is the prediction? >> my prediction is that the public is becoming more empowered and more educated. innovation would become faster and more easily acceptable because of the crisis that we have and that is a good thing. my prediction is that things will get better. >> i think there has been a national and global debate for years and it has been a slightly ta different debate about the innovation strategies and policies. too many people are out of work today. i think that there are too many diseases than me to be cured. i

that was sort of a caution that you picked up on that as popular as google is, you know, searching is, etc., paid search is what's providing the revenue there. so that's all of the content that journalists create, you know, is getting less and less attention and less value. and the quickest way to raise advertising money right now is paid search. we're just pointing out there that in a period where most americans are concerned about employment, we ought to see where the jobs are. so that's -- also capital expenditure. i mean, a company like at&t, and i'm not here to give commercials for them, but those companies are the leading companies in terms of capital expenditure in the u.s. so last year i believe in the at&t case it was $17 billion in cap ex. i don't remember the google number, but it's nothing like that. we're really pointing out that while innovation is huge, google is tremendous in terms of where our country stands in the world economy, we also have to stay focused on how do we keep up in terms of, you know, the earlier conversation, you know, speed and deployment, price as well

also claims about the west and what the west does and doesn't do, and what muslims do and don't do, etc. and for sure, the cartoon episode has had some lasting consequences in international relations system in the sense that united nations, human rights council passed a resolution already in march 2007 to the effect that defamation of religious figures, which was the language that was a compromise, to make the resolution in some measure of neutral with respect to religion. but the resolution is really about making islam and information of the prophet a human rights violation. we have an addition seen, february 2008, there were sort of a minicrisis when it was revealed in denmark that a plot had been underfoot to murder one of the cartoonists and the danish press got very upset and there was another wave of solitary repenting of his argument. the one cartoon that really everybody knows about, the one with obama in the turbine. it was not a new phenomenon. it grew out of the same circle of that action had started the original protest in the city where the newspapers headquarters are locat

and, he brought in how many planes it would take, how often they would fly etc.tc., and when to lord robertson who was lucius clay's british counterpart and the first lucius clay was against the airlift. he thought it was impossible, and he wanted to use an armored column down the audubon the 110 miles from the western zone, and so when roberts and talk to him about an airlift, first he said it is impossible. it is absolutely impossible. and robertson and then kurds devin the foreign minister of britain both said, well we are going to do it anyway, and it is certainly going to be embarrassing that americans can't do with all they have what we can do with nothing, and clay gave the right answer, which is, i am with you. but, it was-- the british were amazing and more brits died in the airlift then americans, parvi because their planes were even in worse shape than they had a larger crews. they carried a navigator with them so they had four men on the plane where we had three, so when airplanes crashed they tended to have a higher casualty rate but i for one, who w

etc. and being forced to spend a lot of money allowing a lot of time staring at dollar figures. and these may or may not be accounting or financial wizards, but they suddenly got to be spending a lot of time making decisions on where to make cuts. so what i've done in this chapter is to suggest one tool that will help people wrap their heads around all these dollar figures and that is to break it down to the level of household finance come is something that we all know. and by that i mean per unit cost. so what i've done here is given six strategies for how converting cost into per unit cost can help district leaders do what they need to do now, which is to take a look at their spending and start to make cuts and think about priorities and so one. so the first one i wanted to talk about was the tool that rake in school budgets down into per unit terms can convey relative magnitude to someone just pulled three on the left there. i pulled three headlines time is readiness. new york was going to get a cut of 698 million. alabama, a hundred billion. sarasota county was going to make

is it with our -- with our tv, microphones, etc. new spac. our panelists include thomas rice, the vice chancellor of academic personnel at the university of california los angeles. jonathan skinner is the john sloan dickey third century prof. of economics at dartmouth. our third panelist is eric but passionate, the associate dean at the school of leadership and public affairs. our moderator for this panel and the next is alan murray. >> thank you. >we will have a discussion among us and then we will open the floor to all of you and tom is going first. >> thank you very much. i am delighted to be here. i am glad that we're talking about health-care costs. that is an important part of our debt, the focus of the conference. i will be focusing on what factors are, in my opinion, for the quickly growing health-care costs in the united states. i have only two slides. the first one shows you how much of an out liar the united states is with regard to health-care costs. you might think we spend a lot because we are rich. that is not the case. on the

john, your point about oing -- going forward, etc. one that came out was from ndi. it was a road map for, their suggestion establishing something like a commission in kenya. and i think an initiative like that is a very worthwhile undertaking. i think it offers everybody what they're looking for, an opportunity to reflect an honest and open, transparent manner. to look at what are some of the activities that could take place that are positive? others are already on this wavelength. i think my personal opinion would be that we can reflect very seriously. this would not be an international effort. this would be a joint afghan international effort. i would you in that direction buried i completely agree with the points that you made. -- i would point you in that direction. i completely agree with the points that you made. the whole political party issue was near and dear. i think a lot of people were surprised. i am certainly looking forward to, in afghanistan, you're going to need political parties. they do not support that, and it is a detriment to party development.

at etc. and also if you can distill this for you world-- war into a take-home message, what would that be to you think? would that open up your eyes as he said earlier or is there something else you would like to say? >> i think when you ask this about the power and the relationship of oil, i don't think that is an ideology. i think there is a relationship between our foreign policy in the united states's foreign policy and the need for oil. and what they are not held that played out in the neocon and that is the way we framed it, neocon, i am sure it is a factor but i don't think it is the driving factor. i think power was much more the factor in their thinking. certainly, the fis president's relationship to haliburton is something that we have not touched on tonight which is something we should at least mention. there are bork contractors in iraq and afghanistan than we have troops. mark, mark, slowly but surely we are privatizing the wars. and that is a part of what we are asking you to lo

the war, vietnam, etc. civil-rights, the mccarthy period, fear. herblock died a couple weeks before 9/11. you have an extraordinary range of history captured in these cartoons. i hope you will find it of interest. it is the kind of thing that will serve as a reminder. i want to talk about herblock rhythm-and-blues great cartoonist he was, boy from chicago. it is so interesting that "the protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease" 11 was this unpatriotic liberal and so forth a. he was a boy of the middle west. herblock grew up in the political party. that was a different republican party at the time. you can look at the changes in his style. when i came to washington in 1957 i had never met herblock but my father was an admirer of his. i was from new york. herblock's cartoon that appeared every day in the new york post which was the most liberal paper. hard to believe. now it is the murdoch paper. herblock was a great figure. i met herblock when i was a young reporter and he was complimentary of what i was doing on civil-rights. wh

if you continue to 395, expect to slow from etc.ell, and expect to get dizzy with that camera shot. okay approaching 14th street. new york avenue delayed in spots, live from sky 9. look at the left side of the screen. looks like we have 270 accident at the spur split. this just popped up. obviously this is going to cause quite a slow down for those approaching the capital beltway. already seeing delays on the op from new hampshire over to georgia avenue. we will keep you posted on the situation here at the 270 split near rockville. moving to 270, main delay before all that looks like stretching from 118, germ and town road to 370. nasrallah the traffic. >>> 6:18. a story happening today. new security regulations for people flying into the united states. it stems from that attempted bombing of a flight on christmas day. over the weekend, president obama linked that plot to al- qaeda. new rules took effect at midnight. they are already getting mixed reaction, come after a late night security breach. >> reporter: starting today, all tr

there on specific products, etc. -- they are on specific products, and etc. part of this is wto disciplines. but a buteo -- the wto disciplines a lot more on developing countries ban on their lunch countries. they could raise taxes on water and still stay the buteo compliant. the buteo disciplines are still out there because of the possible threat of dispute settlement. but i think in the end -- wto disciplines are still out there because of the possible threat of dispute settlements. but in the end, i think it is not the threat of the disciplines that are out there that can be gotten around in various ways. it is about two things. it is about the memory of what happened before and it is about the political pressure. i happen to believe, and i wrote about nine months ago on this issue, that if we had not managed to control the global recession and the possibility of depression that occurred that the protectionist pressures would have become very great and in some cases, perhaps, overwhelming. this is one important factor. if you believe desmond, then be very

., etc., etc.e dogs. you know, so if i were at the white house, what i would be doing is figuring out a way that once a week, for the next six weeks, secretary sebelius and others get up and launch a new pilot project already with whatever executive authority they have. to start doing this. and start playing up the systems that do exist in this country that have already bent the curve internal to the system. and they are out there. and it's basically just going to be reminding the blue dogs that this is possible. and then it's going to be coming up with some kind of a deal finally and you see the president now doing this. to deal with the other undone big issue. which is going to be a big medicare reform. because everybody knows that once health reform is done, the next big conversation is overall on medicare and medicaid reform. call it entitlement reform, call it whatever you want. but basically figuring out a way to get that on to a path of stability or something closer to stability than what we

., etc. that can change some of the rates and the reinsurance pool behind the scenes but this piece has been very important for us and helps with adverse elections of the marketplace is not trying to make decisions based on risk that is why it gem has talked about. as a backdrop that has been very important for us that is what is included in the federal house and senate. >> some of the less sense as we move forward, i talk about a little about the adverse selection retry to avoid from day one. if you're looking for administrative expenses and just to save expenses we have a real problem because even in the bills they talk about in that group marketplace 85% loss ratio ratio, even if you save a little bit there you are not hitting the 80 or 85% which is the claims dollar. you also have to figure out how can we change the risk profile underneath to look at the claim this side? i have a problem putting the loss ratio and there because it stifles innovation and the ability of companies to invest

we need to evacuate people, bring food, water, etc. this is really for the time being what is more immediately urgent and what has to be done. once this is done, we will have to start discussing all the questions you raised -- where, when, who can come, what will be the assessment of the situation, what will be the draft plan that we can put on the table of the conference so that we can work on that. of course, we have to work with the haitian authorities because this is their country, and in no way do we want to affect their sovereignty in any way. so all of this will have to be done in due course, but of course it cannot be done immediately as we are facing the urgency of the situation there. host: a photo in the "new york post" today. american helicopters land in front of the damaged presidential palace in port-au- prince yesterday. next call from bloomington, illinois, independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is regarding -- can you tell what role the dominican republic is playing in its recovery, and may

people move, split their time between states, etc. but the key is to have national plans, not a national store. as long as you can buy national plans, that is the key. and if you can be supplemented by a reciprocal plant in regional terms -- a reciprocal plan in regional terms and there are conventional wisdom things noted on the power point but finally state resources and energy is somewhat of an achilles' heel here. given the controversy alateen that has come to characterize this entire reform effort -- given the controversiality that has come to characterize this entire reform effort, that could be problematic. finally, i would turn to the last point about greece forcing an evolving -- about resources in an evolving -- resourcing and devolving exchanges legislating and trying to figure this out. some degree of independence to these exchanges to figure out what works. i like the senate version much better which has funding tied to sales premiums and transactions actually happening with the exchange. i think that focuses the exchange

the work to create a fire code violations etc.. and as far as the judge was concerned any fire code violation required the school to be closed. on a positive side, however, we recruited partners from all the 160 plus schools, partners being mom-and-pop shops, interests, business, individuals to come and help the principal to be available to him or her. i had six schools, the last schools to have a partner, they are all east in tough areas. so i went to see doc cooke and some of you may remember him from the pentagon. i need some help, he was the mayor there. [phone ringing] i don't believe this. the last time that happened -- the last time that happened a fellow named colin powell was sitting in front of me. he said give me that phone. [laughter] anyhow, doc cooke said i will help you and within a week i had all schools with partners. he went to the army, navy, the coast guard and air force and they brought in people to help the principal partners. they had soldiers shot in some schools and a great boon to the student body, to the

you said in a previous response lack of regulation corruption etc. we are all multipliers. what we have seen is that the government has taken a lot of people who basically took stupid risks with other people's money and made them whole. all the people who had money for aig for example is in the dannel supplier of the future? that all these people -- all these incredibly bad decisions and guess what? we are putting money again. can you comment on that cycle? >> let me say that the federal reserve views itself in an enviable position. okay are we just by maintaining a very low interest rates and ample liquidity are we allowing this process to continue or do we run the risk of tightening and making this gambit more difficult but at the same time run the risk of derailing the recovery? that isn't an enviable position to be in. moral hazard. i have to bring up moral hazard which is squarely in i think if we go anywhere with any kind of regulation that is meaningful meaning that it has teeth it has to deal squarely with a moral hazard and what do i mean in english? blanket guaran