>> i think the heritage foundation. heritage had the 2.8 number in there but the idea that anyone can project with what the unemployment rate will be in 2015 is ridiculous. so ryan would have been better to just leave that all to the side. but what we have here, job, is we have set up a conflict of visions obviously, we have an unsustainable fiscal situation in the country. there were two ways to go. one is ever higher taxes and price controls on health care to control the costs of health care, which is basically the democratic plan. but they're too cowardly to be explicit about it. or we can get spending under control, take first steps to getting the entitlements under control with no tax increases and price controls and that's the ryan plan which will become the lowest common denominator to for republican presidential candidates in 2012. >> so it's going to be president. >> not every candidate will endorse every jot of it. it will be -- it will be -- the standard by which candidates will be judged. [everyone talking at

ashton carter to the heritage foundation. as the under-secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics at the department of defense. dr. carter has been working to implement numerous initiatives to save money during a time of what we all know are falling budget. he has led a sense of acquisition reforms, industry, endorsing the cancellation of over 50 major weapons programs as part of the 2010 budget. prior to his current appointment undersecretary carter worked in a number of defense related positions of great prestige. he served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under president clinton and a member of the defense science and policy board. is also serve as chairman of harvard international and global affairs factly at the kennedy school of government. he's received many awards, among them the department of defense distinguished service medal and the defense intelligence and metal. dr. carter has taught in the past about the massive $700 billion portfolio that he helped overse

is a post that never thought this but the heritage foundation a sense provides i mean it isn't a serious plan something serious how do you know with a serious point magu having a lawyer here and there to say that this is what we seriously want to do that we want to have we want to we want to go to mr ford second we want to cut medicare and give people death benefits and then to think of things that we get from that we're going to use to give more tax cuts to rich people who has never had it with facebook i don't even know why we're taking it as a if you report seriously these are the people that missed the subprime mortgage meltdown these are the people that missed greece and rated greece the same is germany their midst this whole meltdown and also this is a win win situation for the you know if you triple his you know what if we were formed to this and he can claim victory and if there's if if things go wrong to the s. and p. can claim victory it's win win for the s. and p. they're playing politics and it's that is true and. in that spirit my take on this is that wall street wins a matt

and again in two thousand and six the heritage foundation all economic success over the past fifteen years can be ascribed to a range of domestic and international factors it was not a fluke ireland has long had it intends to sustain low tax rates to attract investment. the cato institute another conservative one group back in two thousand and seven said this the key to our own success has been an excellent tax climate for business ireland establish one of the lowest rates in the world just one third of the u.s. rate low business tax rates have helped ireland attract huge inflows of foreign investment and in two thousand and seven the conservative american enterprise institute had this to say the real credible large irish disco policy beginning in the late one nine hundred eighty successive irish governments pursued vital spending cuts and tax relief which have made it a magnet for powerhouse firms and quote in two thousand and eight g.o.p. icon sean hannity in an interview with senator john mccain you are right about ireland's tax rates they did large tax rates on businesses and it'

host: our guest is nick nick -- nicolas loris with the heritage foundation. caller: i've got a couple of points. number one, i can't believe these c.f.l. bulbs suddenly became politically correct. mercury is one of the heaviest metals to be used and i've broken many bulbs just trying to get them out of the socket, and the e.p.a. has totally turned their backs on this. obama said in order for his program to go through, our energy would necessarily have to skyrocket for his plan to come through. i don't think any of this stuff is well thought out. it's all just plitical correctness. host: mr. loris? guest: well, the e.p.a. does detail extensively on how to deal with these bulbs but whether or not the consumer follows through with the instructions is up to them. i don't think the e.p.a. would let a product on to the market that would have huge health concerns for the american public but getting back to his point about the green economy, i think that's a very valued point. when enyou limit energy prices that restricts the ability for it to grow. if you take them

the only body they could get to vouch for that was the heritage foundation. no other bon fide economists will tell you that you cut taxes again on the weltiest americans you are going to have unprecedented growth. this is kind of a harry potter budget. they are projecting unemployment at unprecedented historical levels. it doesn't exist. they basically just waved their magic wand and said these are the numbers that are going to restore the economy of the united states. it is not reality-based. i come from a family of entrepreneurs. my father built a big company, both my brothers have built big companies. identify built a big company. and any of us would have told you that raising taxes, a small amount on entrepreneurs, makes no difference in how they act. what makes a difference is that they see an opportunity to make money. and as my brother who is in the barbecue restaurant business said, if nobody can afford barbecue, it doesn't matter what my tax rate is. that's where we are as a country. we have spent so much time making sure that the top 1% have done we

okay. >> brian walsh from the heritage foundation.this week the weekly standard has an article about the declaration of the principles of an academic freedom, are you familiar with that document? >> not very, no. >> okay. what i'm wondering is what the declaration done, and it's been touted by others for a while, it lays out standards and principles for what academic freedom looks like. it would actually give faculties, for example, a guidance on how they should be making decision about tenure, about who to accept, what articles they should be promoting, those types of things or at least being open to. what do you think about some type of standards where the academic community actually -- not that it's imposed from outside, but it adopts those standards voluntarily, and then it's used by faculty and other members to point to and say, you know, i'm not being afforded my academic freedom whether it's in tenure or whatever else it might be, do you think that would be helpful to combat that problem? >> i have considerable skepticism about

hundred seventy is a number of free market think tanks were born at the cato institute the heritage foundation heartland institute these groups were purpose built by right wing philanthropist like the coax to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small poly coordinated network of currents the thought regulation been there almost single handed effort to manufacture debate as a global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one poops skeptical of global warming found that out of the ninety percent of them were written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called big the noise machine are the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group of a of pay members. culture is that so much of an oldish musician sometimes in the bar when amidst the stalemate in palestinian israeli peacemaking a storm of diplomatic activity is growing palestinian leaders. will be. bringing you the latest in science stimson knowledge from arou

hundred seventy s. a number of free market think tanks were borne by the cato institute the heritage foundation heartland institute these groups were purpose built by right wing philanthropist like the coax to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small poly coordinated network of groups before regulation then there almost single handed effort to manufacture to fight with the global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one poops skeptical of global warming found that i have a ninety percent of them written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called the denial machine. the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying he is talking to a group with a of pay members. twenty years ago largest country in the. same two places of. course had been able. to get insurance. where did it take don't. all. in taiwan the multis available in the phalangists typee hotel golden typee the how it falls a hotel type be sure sometimes the hotel hotel whi

they are in the oil business and they spend millions at the heritage foundation. they are kicking our butts. we cannot continue to let it happen without serious negative consequences which we are already experiencing. >> the koch interest and the heritage foundation are not for me. >> i did not say they [laughter] word. were. >> i didn't say you are. >> those guys are not helping me. >> i am not happy with gas and our 18-wheelers. >> the major oil companies, see them for what they are. they are international oil companies. take exxon, is it a good company? of course it is. is it will run? absolutely. they work for shareholders. they do not work for america. they are international company. a 4% of the revenues come from offshore. -- 84% of the revenues come from offshore. alas president bush, there were one of his biggest advisers on energy and make america. that is not who you go to for energy in america. you go to energy experts in america, not an international oil company agreed it does not make sense. [applause] >> another question to mr. pickens. a recent repo

welcome to the heritage foundation and the auditorium. please join us on our heritage website. we would ask that cell phones be turned off as i continue with preliminary announcements. our internet joerres are on course welcome to send their comments -- internet viewers are, of course, welcome to send their comments and we will post this forum on our website for future reference. hosting our discussion this morning is mackenzie eaglen, research fellow for national security studies. prior to joining heritage, she was the principal defense advisor for susan collins of maine. she has also served for two years of the pentagon as a presidential management fellow in the office of secretary of defense. prior to our fellowship she was a national security analyst at the u.s. army institute of land warfare. she has been a guest lecturer at several locations, participated in defense analyst at several universities, and received her master's degree from georgetown university. please join me in a joint -- in welcoming my colleague, mackenzie eaglen. [applause] >> it is my pleasure today to

or lack of them i'm joined by ray waltzer in washington he's a senior policy analyst at the heritage foundation in berkeley we cross the salt landau he is a senior fellow at and vice chair of the institute for policy studies he's also a filmmaker and his new film is will the real terrorist please stand up and in san francisco we have gloria she is a corner of the national committee to free the cuban five all right this is cross talk that means you can jump anytime you want but first let's have a short look at a short report on recent relations between washington and obama. fifty years following the failure of the u.s. back bay of pigs up aeration to alice fidel castro's government and cuba the two nations remain at loggerheads decades of washington impose the cargo have kept the debate raging staunch supporters of the sanctions in congress say easing them only the communist regime but others see the embargo as elevated and counterproductive to u.s. interests and to the welfare of the cuban people it has long been agreed that doing business with cuba could rake in large profits for america's bus

conservative free market think tanks that were founded by the same conservative ideologues behind the heritage foundation and the reagan revolution in fact the intent of these this network was to bring the reagan revolution to the state level to influence the legislators and get you know the kind of policies that they wanted a union anti-tax implemented in the states whether they're starting to accomplish that and i think there are there are thirteen states i believe that that have republican governors and legislatures something close to that i mean we've seen this is now michigan indiana. it's moving around the it's moving around the country this is exactly what the network was put there for the the state takes that i chronicled in the story in there in all fifty states and they're all basically pushing the same agenda you know the board of the state policy network said we're comrades in arms they were there and they've been laying the groundwork for quite a while for this legislation but when you had a wave of republicans elected around the country as you said you saw this legislation get fast tracked

satellite radio and brian darling director of government studies at the heritage foundation and columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com and big government oh oh we love big government. but let's get started the u.s. economy slow down in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven coincidentally it's the first quarter the republicans have been in control the war of the house of representatives economists are pointing their fingers at rising gas prices the call for the slow growth but well most of those are our wallets emptied. at the hub are having me our wallets empty but exxon mobil post that seven was ten price billion dollars profit b.p. rang up a seven billion dollars profit alibre gadget of five billion and change it so to all the oil companies and the republicans who insist that taxpayers should consist of continue subsidizing these well governments think that profiting off the american downturn is patriotic. profiting is patriotic i mean making profits and only doing the suffering. i mean you're talking about suffering these people are producing something th

a conservative think tank with ties to the heritage foundation and the koch brothers is targeting professors at three state universities in michigan who are the university of michigan michigan state university and wayne state university a think tank known as the mackinaw center for public policy as submitted of through of information act request to get the personal e-mails of professors in labor studies programs to find out what these professors were saying about the ongoing labor battle in wisconsin presumably the goal of the koch funded think tank is to catch state professors pushing for the recall of certain politicians something that is illegal within a classroom but since they're only going after labor professors and no one else it's not reasonable to assume that this is just another tactic in the republican war on working people joining me to talk about this issue is evan mcmorris i sense horo reporter at t.p.m. and joining me from michigan one of the professors targeted by this right wing for a request. professor roland zillo from the institute for research labor and the economy and h

good at alec was founded by paul way rick a conservative strategist who also co-founded the heritage foundation we all know it where we're at his most famous for saying this was in a in a church with a group of christian republicans take a look. how many of our. what i call them grow good government they want everybody. i don't want everybody to vote it works and. majority of people they never have been from the beginning to rock creek and they are not. going to go look for it in the elections by panic like go out go calling oculus go go so there you have the reason why for example so many of the republican controlled states right now kansas for example just recently are trying to make it harder and harder for people to vote at the voters because people vote holy cow that's democracy and people tend to vote democratic at least on the issues of females but now we get into this whole legislative thing about this two thirds two thirds majority for to raise taxes on rich people. this is actually this piece of legislation that the republicans are saying they won't raise the debt ceiling for the unit

the only source they have for that theory is the heritage foundation. the heritage foundation was also the group that said if we cut taxes in the bush administration and we will have this job growth and surplus, didn't quite work out so well. this is the harry potter budget, you wave the magic wand and make anything sound true. cut taxes further on the rich, slash spending to help the low and moderate income people in this country and the economy will bloom. well, i'm not buying it and most americans won't buy it. it's a road we have been down before. i would like to introduce and yield time to a great new member of congress, gentlelady from california, ms. bass. ms. bass: thank you for your leadership in this effort. as a new member on the budget committee, we had an interesting week last week. we completed a week where we saw the far right of the republican party take their party off the ledge and way out of the mainstream. they declared war on seniors, on the disabled, sick, children and on the underserved by proposing to end medicare and medicaid as

joining me tonight on the panel brian darling columnist and director of government studies at the heritage foundation eric annuity democratic strategist and dr david hallberg washington correspondent at business investors daily welcome to all of you get started here president obama drew a line in the sand on wednesday presenting his own deficit reduction plan to rival the republican plan but privatizing medicare and cuts taxes even further for millionaires and billionaires perhaps the most significant part of the president's speech was when we were bukit reaganomics take a look this vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in america ronald reagan's own budget director said there is nothing serious or courageous about this point nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. and i don't think there's any great just about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on capitol hill that's not a vision of the america i know

. >> welcome to the heritage foundation and to our louis lerman auditorium. pleased to welcome of course to join on the heritage of our website on each occasion. we would ask everyone in house to make that courtesy check that the cell phones have been turned off as i continue the preliminary announcements. our internet viewers are welcome to send their comments through e-mail at any time simply addressing them to speaker@hertiage.org it will post within 24 hours for everyone's future reference. hosting the discussion this morning is mackenzie, the research fellow for national security studies, part of our douglas and sarah allyson center for foreign policy studies. prior to joining heritage she was the principal defense adviser for senator susan collins of mean and also served for two years of the pentagon as a presidential management fellow in the office of the secretary defense. prior to her fellowship, she was a national security analyst. at the association of the united states army institute of land warfare. she's been a guest lecturer at several locations

think you want to have a trillion dollars of wild yeah i really think using numbers from the heritage foundation as opposed to c.b.l. that number that the that they have spent nation since provides i mean it isn't a serious plan something serious about it and we serious point mugu having a lot here and they're going to get there to say that this is what we seriously want to do you know we want to have we want to we want to got to perform i think we want to cut medicare and give people let's benefits and in the feelings that we get from that we're going to use to get more tax cuts to rich people who has never had anything good i don't even know where we're taking you know some people report seriously these are the people that missed the subprime mortgage meltdown these are the people that missed greece and rated greece the same is germany they missed this whole meltdown and all of a sudden this is a win win situation for the us you know if you triple his you know what if we were through more of the debt and he can claim victory and if there's if things to go wrong to the s. and p. can claim victo

had to say about the way the old irish were doing business back in two thousand and two the heritage foundation pretty much the policy writing wing of the republican party said this ireland already has shown the tax cuts are a recipe for prosperity thanks to reagan's tax rate reductions including a corporate income tax rate of just ten percent ireland has become the celtic tiger and is now the european union's second richest country. and again in two thousand and six their determination well you cannot mix success over the past fifteen years can be ascribed to a range of domestic and international packers it was not a fluke ireland has long added intends to sustain a low tax rates to attract investment. the cato institute another conservative one group back in two thousand and seven said this the key to our own success has been its excellent tax climate for business ireland establish one of the lowest rates in the world just one third of the u.s. rate low business tax rates have helped ireland attract huge inflows of foreign investment and in two thousand and seven the conservative american ent

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so much for the heritage foundation analysis. which it as someone who has gotten it right. >> members of the committee, there are 13 members left in this code. i like to encourage people to go vote. those of you who are waiting, so that no one misses the vote. thank you. >> let me ask you, paul, when you have finished. inco had, alcee. >> which specific tax provision would you target in order make the broadening savings claimed in the budget? >> it is not my job. that is the ways and means committee. >> so you do not want to talk about home mortgage interest. >> they're jealous of their jurisdiction. we try not to. >> you set the framework and you have no idea. charitable deductions? local tax deductions? >> we got a letter saying that this is the architect of the tax reform will like to include in the budget. now the ways and means committee is going to fill in that architecture. >> one question. >> if i could interject one thing, i cr court reporter struggling. could i has members to please stop talking over each other. she is

about where you got your data, and we can have a debate about whether your data came from the heritage foundation or the department of statistics, and the average person out there does not give a damn, so it is not about data. it is about the work that people do and how that contributes to the greatest in this country and to the economy to get us out of the financial mess that we're in and putting the 30 million unemployed and underemployed americans who need to get back to work back to work in this country, and that will go a long ways to taking care of this problem that we have in united states today. every company promotes they're satisfied customers, accept us. our folks need to talk about -- folks need to know that we handle more than grievances. we are handling grievances for the same 1% of the membership. leaders need to step back and led to our members tell their stories. when we do a press conference, it does not need to be us out there all the time. it is to be folks telling their own story. in detroit, we have hard times getting the media out and the media told me, that is because we d

the discussion takes place of the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. and runs about an hour. >> what is taught in the law schools in one generation would be believed by the bar in the following generation, end of quote, said one grade law professor, and he might have added that it would also, because it is widely believed by the bar, it would wind up being believed by much of the press and public. this is a -- was not a news story to me. i've written several books about the legal system and in more cases than not that can be traced back to academic origins. if you have a beef with the tort system for example in the united states, you should take it up with the berkeley. if he thinks that our system of sexual harassment law is less than ideal, your problems with professor catherine so it is with class-action law civil procedure and, employment law and many others. and this can be traced big and small. i tell a story in my book about workplace law of the then all of idea that law for those of you that are not on looksism it's the improper bias by which e

the heritage foundation cannot the other day. they passed the republican budget. it creates a lot of jobs. i think even the republicans would can see their projections. i just want to say this about the tax reform. those are just the facts about what happened. you have stronger economic growth. no one is arguing that by increasing the marginal space. this is that the main economic driver in the economy. we are going to move forward to get that done. there is a very small slice of overall revenue. the republican plan does not drop the corporate tax rate. it is raising taxes on middle and come. >> it is the ways and means committee. >> we eagerly anticipated that only be here is there is amazement. there is your thoughtfulness about how to approach it. there is a lot at risk by how successful we could be. >> thank you. >> he is welcome appear. >> he went on the stage. >> thank you. i will add to it. i would include those same accolages. -- accolades. we are all here to talk about the philosophy. i had no clue if anyone spent 16 years. hundreds of employees were tryi

public policy center, tom miller of the american enterprise institute, and bob moffett of the heritage foundation. it has really been a wonderful collaboration. i want to thank also our editor at harper collins and are publicist, our editor and the bell and our publicist joy the picture as well as a terrific team and all of our think tanks that really helped us so much and are really helping us to make sure people know about this important new book. it really was a pleasure and a remarkable pleasure to work with the four, the four authors, three co-authors and myself to put this book together. it is not a collection of chapters that each one of as road and to individual ownership laws. this was a scene was booked. we really wanted to tell the story of what obamacare is going to mean for the american people, how it's point to affect families and young people and seniors and employers and employees and taxpayers and citizens and most importantly doctors and patients. and the book is written to really help people understand. this is not written by policy, but really an accessible book for people to

plan and the job growth estimates that they said that went along with it, they fear from the heritage foundatione same institution that predicted that the bush-era tax cuts would lead to huge job growth. in the country when in fact during the eight years during the bush administration after those tax cuts we actually had a net loss of 650,000 jobs. look, in our plan we continue to invest in the future of our economy. a we need invest in education. we need to invest in our infrastructure. we need to make sure we invest in science and research and n.i.h.. so, yes, we recognize you've got to make cuts. you're going to have make serious and sustainable cuts and we will propose those as part of a budget that we offer. but at the same time, it would be a big mistake to reduce our investments in critical national investments. other countries are following that successful model from the one our past generations pursued and yet this republican budget would cut those strategic investments and reduce our competitiveness overseas. >> ifill: with the democratic point of view, congressman vision van hollen of

reporter: but that presents a real problem says matthew spalding, a constitutional scholar at the heritage foundationconservative think-tank in washington. >> it can't be in another state, which is why they created the district in the first place. so how do you solve this dilemma in the one hand that recognizes this question about representation and the necessity of having the district, the federal government not in a state, really in a place where it has its own sovereign jurisdiction. >> reporter: regardless of the reason, many d.c. residents say the status quo is unacceptable. >> i find it infuriating that lawmakers take our tax money and make laws for the rest of the country and impose ones on d.c. that we don't want without any representation. >> that's taxation without representation and that's part of our constitution, and you know, that's something that should be enhanced. so, you know we should be able to implement our thoughts and our ideas just like everyone else in the rest of the country. >> d.c. really means doesn't count. >> reporter: local news radio commentator mark plotkin has advoc

the seventeenth paragraph of a story in the washington post after we already heard from the heritage foundation and john boehner and other sources to tell us the fiscal sky is falling. let's set that aside and define the term. what does a fiscal deficit mean? what does the budget crisis mean? very common sense terms the way i think of that, when i want to do something but don't have enough money to do it. i would like to purchase a new car and it costs $10,000 and i don't have enough cash for it. let's examine this narrative, this fiscal budget deficit. has an economic shortfall, something we baked into the cake which is a term economists like to use. i think we have a structural economic problem called the deficit. many tea party years contend we had out-of-control spending, crazy, while government spending. if possible we couldn't afford that. i would like to point out between 2004/2007, we ranked 24th out of 26 wealthy countries in the organization for economic cooperation in terms of government spending. overall spending is a share of the economy. 242 but out of 26. we are ranked officially