[inaudible] talk about their lough for the work they had done with alexander and the -- [inaudible] the challenges they had. and gave us the first challenges we ever had. >> yeah. i think he did give them challenges like recreating a 14th century irish -- [inaudible] something normally asked to do and -- [inaudible] in this case it's very -- [inaudible] can do anything. there was interesting projects they collaborated on. also, i've been struck by people saying how they can't recognize the alexander coburn they look up on the internet. as the kind of, you know, generous friend that they knew in person. a lot of people have been -- [inaudible] mentioned what a great guy he was. what a nice man he was and, you know, not just words of condolence but a sense of somebody who listened very deeply to people and was a thoughtful friend. so there is, you know, many sides to him that you won't find if you look up you'll find con trairn and those sorts of word on the internet. they bear no relation at automatic to who he was and how people experienced him cynical not for a second. [inaudible] obvi

at lough times, again, we don't think about the operational issues. i encourage -- especially the young people put your operational skills in the place in some of your thinking. >> of course, your shareholders, so it speak are the taxpayers. >> not only that. they are customers. they're customers. we're doing a total review of dmv what better area than dmv to think about as a retail customer when you walk to dmv what is your first impression as to wait ab hour and 45 minutes to get a simple renewal of the driver's license? it's the first impression of government. we're doing a total business retail assessment of dmv we hope to have major announcements coming january or february time period. we're going restructure how you gate driver's license in north carolina and hopefully make it more customer-friendly experience. >> that sounds exciting. you also are kind of at the cuss -- cusp of an history tyke time. for the first time in over 100 years you have a republican governor and republican majority in the state house the delegates and the senators. how

we've probably got at lough them to try to make as quickly through as possible.d one last note, i want to brag that every one of these events the audience member survival rate is 1900%. [laughter] >> i wanted to say, first, i think it's one of the best panlts i've ever been on health care. so thank you. i want to go back to two comments you made and ask a question that combines them. there are problems in the health care system. it seems to me it's much more that not the health care system is broken, even though there are some problems. but that the health care funding is broken. on the right side, that's sometimes funding in the insurance and worry about money there, on the left side it's sometimes worry about the cost of health care to government. i think the rage of the american people comes from the fact that many people do like their health care and are happy with it. that leads know the question. on weekend you have to got emergency room because there's no doctor. under obamacare won't access to md be worse than it is under a private insurance plan for most

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i would say they have some benefit and provide at lough information and provide a lot of organizationalsay this gets back to your call and the one before it. the current parties are a comp police -- compilation. environmental responsibility and social tolerance. people are organize around and believe in and get excited about. as opposed to just growing their lot with a coalition of folk for with whom they have nothing in common owner to win seats. here is the cover published by norton. thank you for joining us on the national mall in booktv. >> it's a great event. it's a pleasure to be here. >>> the event was part of the 2013 national book festival in washington, d.c. for more information, visit loc.gov/book fest. >>> when did the u.s. slave trade start? how did it start? >> well, the u.s. was involved in the slave trade from the moment we sort of began as a colony of britain, and indeed one of the interesting things about u.s. history. in the constitutional convention there was a comprise between the states that had slaves and the states that didn't. the u.s. constitution said that the

million and billionaires in an emerging markets are big spernsd, and so to some extent employing a the lough people. it's an question that is interesting but on an imperial basis i can't come up with a good quick answer. that is part of the narrative now. you hear it a lot in the income dispar ifity. i come back to the tendency to understate inflation with the official statistics. if almost half of total income in the country comes from transfer payments, and if their cola is less than it should be to reflect inflation. obviously we're not getting any growth; right? if anything it's a drag. same thing with the private sector. they have had to adjust the competition from outside the country to all sort of other factors. they also see the cost of living going up much faster than wages. this is why income growth is flat. i think we have to accept the fact we have an invisible tax. we don't want to pay for the services vied by the government. we funded through debt and through a accommodative monetary policy. and the tax, the cost is that we slowly erode real purchasing power. as said before, we

that innovated and hurts a small business guy and also drags you out of the office more you spend at lough time on it. we had health insurance then we started to provide health insurance to our employees, to our families. but we spent a lot of time on this. i took time out of my schedule. i believe the 30-hour requirement can cause some issues, and i've come comment on 309 hour and hopefully representative the independent business owners across the nation and make difference. >> thank you. i appreciate all the witnesses here today. i think we have learned something. >> yeah. myself as well. we heard divergent opinion. i think some point where do we agree uncertainty is not good. uncertainty in any number of areas including uncertainty including our deficit, debt. and the more entrepreneurs and small business owners have certainty, the more likely they are to invest. it's interesting, too, i think we're getting consensus agreement and bipartisan way that whether it's the 30-work workweek. the due definition of large business and 50 employee on the medical device tax or the health insurance

and, you know, i think you probably could extrapolate from that there's not at lough new job creation going on out there as a result of this. unless there's a particular niche industry. >> the energy industry is great; right? yeah! i can talk about the energy industry. across the board, again, the numbers are clear in term of where we should be in term of job creation in term of the recovery and where we are. you can pick your survey whether it's the household or establishment survey. we're nowhere near where we should be. i put the survey in there for a purpose because, again, when you look at the economics of it. we ask does theory and incentive and so on. the reality when people are talking to small business owners this is what we're hearing. there are exceptions along the way that think it's great and the business is growing. it doesn't matter to them. that's fantastic. i would argue the fact we had 12.2% growth with everything working against entrepreneurship and investment is pretty amazing. i think that's worth tipping a hat to to the resilience of the american business owner a

i think there are at lough hearings on that one. it may take a little longer.we have had some success in the past. we passed the house twice. we're optimistic. >> it actually is bipartisan. for many years our greater champion was a republican from indiana who basically said, look, i'm not doing it because i love the media. i don't like you guys, but i believe in protecting this whistle blowers. >> to et the -- constitutional issues. many see it as a constitutional issue, as they should. [inaudible] >> the apps on the past two questions. and i don't want you to shudder here, but there is -- [laughter] there is a defense to be made of a group that everybody at least part of the political spectrum loves to hate, which is the main extremely media. there's a proliferation of new state websites, state, local, and national levels. citizens journalist. all that have is to to be applauded. when you look at the cases, "the new york times," "washington post." [inaudible] "the wall street journal," fox news. they're part of the main stream media. don't listen to how they b

i didn't make a lough times i was invited. did you play any role in low wees learner's decision to reveal the ig finding at the meeting? >> none. >> let me -- it was not charged with implementing the corrective measures. and you had no interaction with the decision. >> correct. could you yield me 30 second? >> i would be glad to e. >> i want to make sure i follow up on miss kelly. let's understand this for the first ten months. you there were and it was your job between february and december of 2012. then until may of 2013 you held the title meeting that you had a responsibility even if you were doing another full-time job. so for ten months you were lois learner's boss. for the next two years you were the boss but not residence. ultimately if she or people doing something wrong, it was still something you should have either relinquished the title or taken some action. and in may of 2010 when you knew that having regularly come up here you never inform congress of the target even after you describe it. i want to make sure miss

i know we've had at lough conversations about it. >> thank you. revenue piece of this. you know, one of the i would say the main reason we're facing these don't is because republicans and democrats cannot come together. do you think that republicans should have been more willing to give revenue. do you think that democrats -- >> listen. i'm getting a little frustrating that the republicans did. look. the republicans passed three budgets and senate of the house. the senate has not passed a budget in four years. and there is another fundamental issue here. everything you hear out of the democratic side is -- i'm talking about the notless -- not fleesly the leadership. i've haered it often from the majority leader. they're not going touch a single thing in entitlement. the aarp saying we'll attack anybody that touches anything in entitlement. that doesn't sound like to me somebody that wants to discuss it. i think republicans are more ready to talk how to fix entitlement and than some of the other activists on the other side. >> do you think that -- [inaudible conversation

furhey have been making loughs. not buyingesses are equipment to expand. they are not going to create jobs. we think this is much bigger than a small pinprick. we think it is a very major problem. >> mr. paul? >> thank you. i do not believe it is a pinprick. i think it is the beginning of a hemorrhage. i think what we have experienced over the past couple of weeks, the number of phone calls the bank has received from hundreds -- many of our borrowers making sure they have their lines of credit available. in the bankulted making sure that we have our own liquidity issues that are available to us to continue to fund these lines of credit. i think if you fast-forward this, if we should get this passed through february, what is going to happen between now and february i think is going to be equally ugly to what has happened the past couple of weeks. the consumer is going to be sitting and saying, we are not going to go out to dinner. we are not going to the movies. we are not going to buy a house. sales will be dramatically impacted. people over the next three

. >> u yo know what was happening was that we had at lough different -- a lot of different departmentset up many years ago for good reasons. we had a biotech center, the charlotte regional partnership which was i was as mayor of charlotte. we had all the different groups working for commerce, but not in a coordinated, effective, and efficient manner. and also had a lot of overhead. and the customer was confused when they came to north carolina who do we talk to if we are interested in investing in north carolina. what we found out, they had to talk to all the different groups. no one person was in charge. i don't think that's good dmer -- customer service. we are pulling all the people under one umbrella and privatizing the marketing of north carolina and make it more responsive to the customer and those who are in the private sector of my commerce department. they'll be rewarded. it will be paid for that. but it's going to be based upon results. not based upon kind of a civil servicemen talty. >> that sounds very exciting. let me turn quickly, since you're talking about economic growt

the hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been loughed -- and that is a little bit from tom souls national review online. we will be spending the morning at "the national review." all of our guest will be coming from there. lucerne, california. a democrat, hayek, paul. paul. caller: i'm an independent, but i kind of lean towards democrats. i have been watching government since 1979 really closely. i have never seen it this bad before. we have to do something. we have to get money out of politics and get back to the business of running our country. all these people that say government is out of control, well, they don't really understand the whole big picture. government is there to protect the average person. what is out of control as corporations and big business. they are running everything right now. that is what is out of control. time toave to take the get educated because unfortunately you don't always get the best news from corporate news. to say it is leaning to the left is really a joke because it is really leaning towards the right trade look at the pundits. lo

federal workers who have been loughed under a shutdown, have historically received their back pay. they are guaranteed their payroll resume once the president and senate democrats agreed to discussions that will resolve this impasse. support for this bill as we continue to work on legislation to reopen the critical operations of the federal government. i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from maryland. the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. >> i rise in strong support of 3223, the federal employee retract up a fairness act. this legislation would provide backpay to 800,000 hard-working and dedicated federal employees oughed as a result of the government shutdown we are enduring. today is day five of the shutdown created by the tea party extremists who are harming our country by holding a government hostage. placing our economy in jeopardy by waging an ideological war to overturn the law of the land and put insurance companies back in charge of health care decisions for tens of millions of our fellow americans. our dedicated public servants ought