my gold standard was the reagan administration policy. it took all the things the carter administration put together. they did a great job taking disparate parts and putting them together but the reagan administration's that we know what the parts are but how do we get in front? i will tell you that the reagan administration policies that on my desk, scratch through everything. any failure in the obama policy -- [laughter] -- it is a great policy. and ask folks to look at the reagan policy and the obama policy. it is not one for one. there's a lot of textural similarity but you will see some tone similarity. hope and change. the actual writing of the policy took place in the matter of five months. an exciting time, painful at times. the policy writing phase was preceded by a presidential study director. the president said study these areas and get back to me and tell me whether we need a space policy. we kind of already know what that means. that was finished at the end of december and agreed to by the end of december. senior leadership to

marshall institute says that the ronald reagan administration arguably had more focus on space and certainly issued more space policy documents than any other administration. so maybe we won the numbers award at least. we issued the presidents -- signed a teen national security directives, what we call an s. pd. these were policy statements, decisions on his part dealing with space during his administration. i was there for all but five of those. i think all of those policy documents reflected the presidents optimism and commitment to demonstrate u.s. leadership and our exceptionalism on multiple fronts. the u.s. space program fit perfectly in his vision of the future for our country. the tools for executing that vision were provided by an economy that was called the largest peacetime boom in the history of the united states. over 35 million jobs were created from the beginning of his administration to the end. in his state of the union address early during his administration, the president stated that developing the frontier of space would be one of the four major priorities for his adminis

administrations. i think ronald reagan had initially kicked off this effort when it started. ton administration pulled it out of the fire, saved by one vote. the challenges we saw is the program was going to have to be dumped into the ocean to be able to pay for a follow-on program and we were concerned after all of this investment and putting it together before we had actually turned into a scientific lab which was part of the original design that we would have to be orbited and so we decided to give it a new lease on life and ten years will also enhance its utilization. beyond the earth orbit, this is one of the holy grails in space, and we set out to go places that man had never gone before on a more flexible path which is what the augustine committee has talked about why also matching - importantly means with mission. but augustine found one of the things we had done is vastly underestimated over the decades in the new technology that we needed to go beyond the earth's moon cradle and we went back and looked to one of the reports the first administration did and all of the

so, next we have the reagan administration, the reagan administration is marked by the stallworth program, arms control talks, the beginning of the space shuttle program. and, unfortunately, the space shuttle challenger disaster. there were a few other events occurring as well. the bombing of the beirut american embassy in beirut, but a very lively area. and to discuss the reagan administration, we have mr. deal right. he was the director space and intelligence program on the national security council staff in the white house. he was also the executive secretary to the senior interagency group for space which oversaw the military civil and commercial sectors of the u.s. space program. it is indeed my honor to introduce gil. >> good morning. i am reminded of introduction of a friend of mine gave to me recently. here is gil, he used to be somebody. i felt like i was somebody back in the golden years of the reagan administration. we came into office under a president who was considered to be a true leader. and it was a very stimulating, exhilarating experience for me, and i'm sure my fellow

explanation just briefly i've got to finish but from your sphere your treasury sector under the reagan administration what do you make of his abilities as a politician and of course and he's had previous role with the i.m.f. what do you make of him as a man just briefly. yeah i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the . use of which power to force the cost of the bailout of the banks onto the backs of just ordinary people he started questioning that it was meeting in the united states with the economist joseph stiglitz who's a big critic of about where you're bailing out banks and i think he was sending signals that upset financial community so it may have helped him with ordinary people but janet made it clear i get it for. the establishment paul paul will have to leave it there thanks so much for your time always good to hear from you paul craig roberts joining us live on his webcam there in florida thank you. well that brings you up to date for the moment next all the latest business news with kareena. her welcome to business here and our team russell is having to face up to its ow

situation and i'm joined by paul craig roberts the former assistant treasury secretary under the reagan administration and a former wall street journal editor thank you very much indeed for joining us on r.t. why do you think this latest alleged victim waited so long to bring these charges. from what i've read of the case it's a very weak one and the new york case which seemed to be initially a very strong case was something that the trench woman could tie her case to and thereby gain credibility for her charges well that case of course the new york case next is that it's going to fall apart so do you think that's what's going to happen to these new charges being brought. i suspect that that french attorney will or will reconsider the case because the new york. the new are sorry the new york case having fallen apart. it doesn't give much prospect for the french case so he'll probably reconsider and he may withdraw or you may advise her to withdraw it on the other hand it may be a political act. as sort cozy may be behind it and therefore it may be pursued for these political reasons that might be the

it was embraced in the reagan administration. by the time we arrived there was $5 billion a year of commercial beginning to get complicated. space business and it was rules of the road, with the proper role of the government is and how to interact with other countries, what we expected and what is the role of government services? utilization of commercial contributor. so that was clearly a large so all those things were the word gets complicated vision of where we get space policy and space needs. as we said before we had a national space council. the president was interested in the area of it and so he was more than happy to have one. we had rate relations and is each one of these guys will tell you, the chemistry inside the white house makes a big and how it is done. difference on what can be done there is internal wrangling for a variety of reasons, things get hard. if there is comedy, if there is clarity, and there is unity than a lot of good things can happen. we had a clarity, comedy and red -- unity. scowcroft is a terrifi

reagan's administration, mr. bush first administration, mr. bush second administration and we ran up over -- i want the gentleman, i know he knows this, over $6 trillion of deficit during that period of time. however, in the eight years that mr. clinton was president of the united states we had a 62 -- $62.9 billion surplus. now the gentleman makes the point that spending is out of control. the fact is, as the gentleman clearly knows, that when you were in charge of the house and the presidency and the senate you increased spending by more than was increased during the clinton administration by a percentage on an annual basis. so that i'm glad to hear that your side now, without fail, talks about spending being out of control. as a matter of fact, i have a feeling if your side was spending five cents would you think that we would need to cut an additional five cents in revenues so that we could not pay the bills. because that's why we ran up $6 trillion in deficits. you did not pay for what you bought. i'm with those who strongly believe we ou

during the reagan administration, he did cut taxes. we had tremendous growth, but the size of the federal government doubled during that period of time, even if you take away his defense build-up to try to defeat the soviet union. it's all about spending. we're spending way beyond our means as a nation. we've just got to stop it. it's unsustainable. we're heading towards an economic cliff as a nation and just slowing the train down. and actually, the president himself just a couple of days ago says he understands that raising taxes is not going to bring any more revenue. the way to bring in revenue is by lowering taxes on job creators so we can have more jobs out there, more people paying taxes into the federal government. that's what happened in the reagan administration. we had a marked increase in the revenue. the problem is under democratic control of congress during the reagan administration, they still spent more than they were bringing in. so we've got to do what businesses and families do. we've got to stop the spending. we've

he served as an assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration.e administered about 70% of the defense budget. he is also former director of national security studies at the council on foreign relations. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> nice to be with you. >> do you think we are in one of those rare political climates where it may be possible to reprioritize our diversion to military spending? >> well, i think we are, because the newly elected republicans recognize that the fence has been really responsible for a lot of the deficit that we've had. if you go back and you take a look in 2001, president bush said we would eliminate the deficit by 2010. and what has really changed has been the military. the baseline budget, exclusive of war costs, has just about doubled in real terms. and then of course you've had the war costs on top of that. so that's had a big, big role in, you know, getting this deficit. it cost about $1 million for every troop that we have in afghanistan. so i think that people are recognizing that defense has got to

started in 2008, but it's just an extension of a subsidy that existed since the 1980s during the reagan administration for land line phones. >> it comes out of my land line bill? >> it does. it's called the universal service fee that is tacked on t the end of your phone bill and goes into a pool and washington used it to sisidiz land line access for low income americans. cell extended to covercc1: phones as well because of the recognition of the general trend lines. >> what's the real problem here? what's the essence of the objection? >> i don't think there is an objection really. >> surprise. >> i will answer that. it's the feeling that cell phones are a luxury. >> it was thought that there was another obama program and so forth, but actually a reagan program that had just been extended to cell phones. i think say 35 states have endorsed this and use it. california is one who is not. a lot of tats is the perception that the taxpayers are paying for it, but there is a pot of money in washington that comes out of everyone's phone bill. the money is there. >> smart phones is almost technology equalizer

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my feeling is that in college, especially during the reagan administration, i thought that the democratic party in the united states had essentially vacated the left. and fused i think a little too much with the political right. there had n. my opinion, been insufficient advocacy for people who were left of center. and so that reality, coupled with the fact of the growing environmental crisis and denial that this country was going through and in seeing the inspirational movement of the green party's blossoming in europe, especially germany, i went to germany in the late 1980's. i spent time with the green party of germany in the parliament over there, learned everything i possibly could. came back to california. i was 1 of 20 people who co-founded the green party here in california. i have been a member of the green party, co-founder, for about 20 years and then less than two years ago i decided it was time for me to shift directions and i became a democrat. >> looking back a few years to your campaign for supervisor, what lessons did you learn from that experience? was there anything tha

oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes that don't meet the standards of the clean water act. we have to advance the cause. that is the big challenge ahead of us. you just don't think of raw sewage in waterways in a developed country, and yet, that's what we have, and not just in pittsburgh, but all over. narrator: pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of the allegheny, monongahela, and ohio rivers. these three rivers are vital for industry, recreation, and drinking water. and each year, billions of gallons of combined sewer overflows discharge directly into those rivers. hecht: we're now having to face the consequences of the choice that was made to put in combined sewer systems. narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a conse

economics back in one nine hundred seventy eight and it became an article of faith during the reagan administration and brigette a so-called conservative since that supply doesn't create jobs i could have a warehouse full a store full of buggy whips and those damn customers they want car stereos it's not supply that creates jobs it never has been and never ever in history demand creates jobs people spending stuff out of their pockets taking money out of their pockets in the mandaean stuff that's what creates jobs. rich people are the magical ones made one hundred dollar bills they don't create jobs they never have they never will a job creator myth is spread by republicans just to hide the real reason why they're not asking millionaires and billionaires to sacrifice like the rest of us and that's because the republican party is wholly owned by millionaires and billionaires that's a pays for their campaigns and like paul ryan it is hedge fund buddy buys them six hundred dollars with a fancy one over dinner that's the only constituency that they care about if the american people found out that republ

this is one nine hundred eighty caspar weinberger who was the secretary of defense in the reagan administration on rearming america and that's easily documented the arms build up came in late eighty one eighty two. there are rumors of extreme drunkenness of prostitutes and of homosexual activities by members but for the most part it is the secret backroom agreements critics say should be brought to light that agreement can be you know occupying the middle east fighting terrorism. and circling china politically and militarily for mary moore who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works and we're all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we find out that none of that is true in monterrey california christine for south r.t. . by that time the business news now here not. hell

broader that's a view of paul craig roberts is a former assistant treasury secretary under the reagan administration and a former wall street journal at. the french press has reported that strauss kahn said before he ever came to the united states. that he expected sarkozy to pay some french woman a million euros to bring sex charges against him and he said that was because he was leading the sarkozy in the polls for the trench presidency and that he stressed crime said that would be a circus his response and the french press has taken a serious i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the i am house use of its power to force the cost of the bailout banks onto the backs of just ordinary people and started questioning that he was meeting in the united states with the economist joseph stiglitz who was a big critic of that way of bailing out banks and i think he was sending signals that upset. the financial community so it may have helped it with ordinary people but made it to target for. the establishment. barack obama's recently announced afghanistan drawdown plan has been slammed by re

administration projected disaster but one hundred seventy six in one thousand nine hundred one the reagan administration said we're going to be out of the prop in one nine hundred ninety one and the next year they even got more dire in one thousand nine hundred two they said that it medicare was dead in eighty seven i remember nine hundred eighty seven i don't remember medicare die every year of the reagan bush one nine hundred eighty s. and first couple years the nine hundred ninety s. in fact medicare was predicted to croak within at the most fifteen years and usually like in one thousand nine hundred four it would be in the sewer and six years. there's an old saying figures don't lie but liars can figure that's why the republicans got medicare part d. in there so the government can't negotiate wholesale drug prices it'll suck over six hundred billion dollars out of medicare in the next decade and and all all of it as in profit over to a dozen or so big drug companies medicare part d. was intended to be a poison pill plan to kill off medicare want to save medicare just change the law so they can negot

broader that's a view of paul craig roberts the former assistant treasury secretary under the reagan administration and a former all street journal at. the french press has recorded that strauss current said before he ever came to the united states. he expected star cosey it took a some french woman a million euros to grey sex charges against him and he said that was because he was leading a sort cosy and the colts to all the tricks present him that he stress crime series that would be a circus whose response and french press has taken a serious i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the arabs use of its power to force the cost of the bail out banks on the backs of just ordinary people and story questioning that i was reading in the united states with the economist joseph stiglitz who's a big critic of that where you are bailing out and i think he was sending signals that upset. financial community so it may have helped it with ordinary people i've. made it clear i would do it for. the record bombers recently announced afghanistan drawdown plan is being slammed by republicans they s

look you're talking to somebody who registered over five hundred thousand people during the reagan administration you can find voter fraud because people who work at voting polls report any potential for usually to the city clerk then reports it to the secretary of state it is not difficult to find voter fraud this is suppression right now the in west in west concent seventy one thousand african-american men are disenfranchised because of a single stroke of the pin by their governor i proposed on my show today that there ought to be a mark in from milwaukee to madison wisconsin symbolic of the march from selma to montgomery this is nothing more than a tip because you can't said this not only in voter fraud oh all of a sudden in florida you can't vote several days in advance you can't vote on a sunday are you kidding me you don't care the house does a week's worth of holding they're consolidating the voting to reload interior design is that race is. that i use the word result when you're eyeing bill. because you know no i'm not a mark it's the designs i didn't buy that i implied that i didn't impl

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