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were thinking we need each system like the germans are the japanese but in the mid 90's the u.s. was doing vastly better so it seemed like even though the theories were taking a beating back on campus in terms of popular view of the role of markets i think it really reached its apex in the late 90's. i know i've bought into it pretty much, this idea that the markets will take care of it, the financial markets will take care of it. you can see it in the way discourse changes. the one clear thing is up until about the mid 90's if you talk about how big a corporation was, how laporte nick corporation was too early to talk about either its overall sales or earnings. those are both clearly incomplete measures but partly because they are incomplete but partly because of this infatuation with the financial markets, it is made this which and basically all people talked about with a market cap. how much the stock of the corporations were in that became the ultimate measure. then 1999 happen then it was pretty clear to a lot of people that including a lot of finance professors that pat.com
were thinking we need each system like the germans are the japanese but in the mid 90's the u.s. was doing vastly better so it seemed like even though the theories were taking a beating back on campus in terms of popular view of the role of markets i think it really reached its apex in the late 90's. i know i've bought into it pretty much, this idea that the markets will take care of it, the financial markets will take care of it. you can see it in the way discourse changes. the one clear thing...
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s were claiming were hard to believe. some were accused of flipping, using texas pair's money to renovate their second home and transferring that status to another property and doing it again. it was the more colorful claims that stuck. a bill for cleaning a motor. a home for one m.p.'s deduction and horse manure for the garden. >> it wasn't just parliament under attack. the departure of ministers from the cabinet shook gordon brown. there was a blatant attempt to remove him from office. >> in the last few minutes i have spoken to james fernell, the work and pensions secretary. he is resigning from the government in order to force a leadership ballot. >> gordon brown hung on, just, but only have to deal with the worst economic claimant in decade. haven'tly he had to admit that the public spending spree had to end. the political contest for all three main parties is now the character of their cut. this is the last time labor will set out a program for government before the next general election, and it is the last time for
s were claiming were hard to believe. some were accused of flipping, using texas pair's money to renovate their second home and transferring that status to another property and doing it again. it was the more colorful claims that stuck. a bill for cleaning a motor. a home for one m.p.'s deduction and horse manure for the garden. >> it wasn't just parliament under attack. the departure of ministers from the cabinet shook gordon brown. there was a blatant attempt to remove him from office....
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in the 1980's and 1990's, there was the alienation of voters. data told us that the electorate was turning out from elections and party politics. the issue of young voters was a major concern during this organizational period. their disdain for politics was one of the most worrisome aspects of politics and the last few decades. the change in young voter engagement lately has been stunning. most suggest the obama effort reinvigorated local politics and the passion for local politics among the electorate and will have a lasting impact. do contemporary parties mirror and other periods? because they're more influential, does that imply a strengthening of the party system? the obama network propelled local activism. will this translate into more vibrant local parties? but you hawill youth political involvement be sustained beyond obama? recent elections have triggered a dramatic change in the electoral system, a boarding party organizations a rare opportunity. there is an opportunity to draw citizens, especially the young citizens, into the party in
in the 1980's and 1990's, there was the alienation of voters. data told us that the electorate was turning out from elections and party politics. the issue of young voters was a major concern during this organizational period. their disdain for politics was one of the most worrisome aspects of politics and the last few decades. the change in young voter engagement lately has been stunning. most suggest the obama effort reinvigorated local politics and the passion for local politics among the...
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into the 1960's. both men held to the centrality of science and public education, a time in which baby boomers matriculated to the public education system. how much attention baby boomers actually paid to science and high school as opposed to things like building models is another matter. christopher bright, a historian, describes the popular representation of some nuclear weapons based on u.s. soil during the early cold war such as the 1958 model kits, but hercules missile. even the tv show lessee featured an episode in 1961 of tommy getting to visit an emplacement. like many of us, or how many of us actually realized or remember in the 1950's, homeland security meant a were continental air defense system incorporating tactical atomic warheads based around major u.s. cities. closer to home here in tennessee george www., a professor of history at tennessee tech university documents of media located around major manhattan project facilities responded to the announcement on august 6, 1945 that the bomb
into the 1960's. both men held to the centrality of science and public education, a time in which baby boomers matriculated to the public education system. how much attention baby boomers actually paid to science and high school as opposed to things like building models is another matter. christopher bright, a historian, describes the popular representation of some nuclear weapons based on u.s. soil during the early cold war such as the 1958 model kits, but hercules missile. even the tv show...
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basically, it was part of the renovation of the chamber in the 1940's, 1950's.gery that you see his patriotism, careers, and wisdom. -- patriotism, courage, and wisdom. they were given a lot of latitude to design and thought it would be appropriate in the senate chambers. these are quite lovely pieces. the latin phrases, the first one is "got has savored are undertaking" over the east insurance building, the west entrance, which is "the new order of the ages." then you have "in god we trust." finally, over the presiding officer's desk is "e pluribus unum," "want out of many." -- "one out of many." >> why did you plan active role and opening up the senate chambers to television? >> i did not want to get too sanctimonious, but i generally do not like secrets. i just think life is a lot easier if you live in open book. i thought was part of the modern era, that we are not covered by media, is the electronic age. audio, radio, and of course the powerful medium of television. i thought the people who cannot come to washington, small-town u.s.a., should have a chance
basically, it was part of the renovation of the chamber in the 1940's, 1950's.gery that you see his patriotism, careers, and wisdom. -- patriotism, courage, and wisdom. they were given a lot of latitude to design and thought it would be appropriate in the senate chambers. these are quite lovely pieces. the latin phrases, the first one is "got has savored are undertaking" over the east insurance building, the west entrance, which is "the new order of the ages." then you have...
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it move further and further to the left in the seventh -- the 1970's and 1960's. this idea was cooked up between the economics department and the head of the usaid. they would bring chile a an students and it was outside the mainstream of american economic discourse. all of the ivy league's had an economics department. they had this program to bring hundreds of latin american students to study under friedman and his colleagues. that had a tremendous impact on the politics of latin america because in the 1970's, there were teams of economies that were ready to work with those military governments that did not have any expertise. they formed a partnership with the military and the college students. >> how did you research that connection? >> there was a huge amount of research there. this research actually came out of the fact that i had lived in argentina for almost two years. i went there in the end of 2001 and my husband and i made a film called "the take." it was about the economic crisis that hit argentina in 2001. >> your sstanding in front of $90 million of e
it move further and further to the left in the seventh -- the 1970's and 1960's. this idea was cooked up between the economics department and the head of the usaid. they would bring chile a an students and it was outside the mainstream of american economic discourse. all of the ivy league's had an economics department. they had this program to bring hundreds of latin american students to study under friedman and his colleagues. that had a tremendous impact on the politics of latin america...
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that he had in the 1990's. -- that night he had in the 1990's. -- that nike had in the 1990's. he has raised hopes and has not lived up to them. i really think he has failed to do that so far. >> did you ever think that you heard something you wanted to hear from him? did you believe it? >> absolutely. i was conscious of it, but because i had studied marketing so closely, i was aware that i was witnessing a very effective marketing. i was aware that i was projecting. i did a fair bit of research about what his actual policies were and i knew that there was a gap between these euphoric hopes he was raising and what he was promising. actually. it is not as simple as broken promises. what is also demobilizing his base, he made the them feel like they were part of an anti-war movement. he made them think that obama represented peace. they were sick of bush's wars. there was a very idealistic spirit of the campaign. but if you look at his policies, he did say he would ask the late in afghanistan and he did say he was one to draw down in iraq but not pull out completely. his base is
that he had in the 1990's. -- that night he had in the 1990's. -- that nike had in the 1990's. he has raised hopes and has not lived up to them. i really think he has failed to do that so far. >> did you ever think that you heard something you wanted to hear from him? did you believe it? >> absolutely. i was conscious of it, but because i had studied marketing so closely, i was aware that i was witnessing a very effective marketing. i was aware that i was projecting. i did a fair...
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basically, it was part of the renovation of the chamber in the 1940's, 1950's. that you see his patriotism, careers, and wisdom. -- patriotism, courage, and wisdom. they were given a lot of latitude to design and thought it would be appropriate in the senate chambers. these are quite lovely pieces. the latin phrases, the first one is "got has savored are undertaking" over the east insurance building, the west entrance, which is "the new order of the ages." then you have "in god we trust." finally, over the presiding officer's desk is "e pluribus unum," "want out of many." -- "one out of many." >> why did you plan active role and opening up the senate chambers to television? >> i did not want to get too sanctimonious, but i generally do not like secrets. i just think life is a lot easier if you live in open book. i thought was part of the modern era, that we are not covered by media, is the electronic age. audio, radio, and of course the powerful medium of television. i thought the people who cannot come to washington, small-town u.s.a., should have a chance to s
basically, it was part of the renovation of the chamber in the 1940's, 1950's. that you see his patriotism, careers, and wisdom. -- patriotism, courage, and wisdom. they were given a lot of latitude to design and thought it would be appropriate in the senate chambers. these are quite lovely pieces. the latin phrases, the first one is "got has savored are undertaking" over the east insurance building, the west entrance, which is "the new order of the ages." then you have...
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1940's, seems to be in retrospect reasonably sensible. they tried to carve it in half and tried to forget about it if possible, and they did lead the charge and possibly they could have defended it big time, but they did leave an opportunity for the soviet union to authorize and never indirectly give them the sense to move in. conceivably they could have had better policies. but they do it and get into trouble, don't come to me. check with the chinese, maybe they'll help you out. in the case of 9/11, it seems to me that i'm not sure what the policies would have been overall. it was instituted in some respects by osama bin laden's intense hostility. . it is not clear how you can necessarily undercut something like that with policies. >> we have to deal with these quickly. the way the coal war ended showed how a machine check to be achieved over a long time with positive sources within the system you were going to check. there are a few areas where most people who work on the cold war, a real conflict, by the way, would agree. of they will
1940's, seems to be in retrospect reasonably sensible. they tried to carve it in half and tried to forget about it if possible, and they did lead the charge and possibly they could have defended it big time, but they did leave an opportunity for the soviet union to authorize and never indirectly give them the sense to move in. conceivably they could have had better policies. but they do it and get into trouble, don't come to me. check with the chinese, maybe they'll help you out. in the case of...
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s. >> almost all of the aides that we talked to said she didn't necessarily come in with a strong knowledge base, and they all sort of realized that or maybe even overdid it. she had these flash cards made up for her to study up for the debate with joe biden, and one of the flash cards said that the prime minister of the kingdom was gordon brown. so that was the level of knowledge that they thought she didn't have. but they all said that she was a sponge when it came to learning things, and she would brush up on it at night before she went to bed. almost all of the policy people who were on the campaign loved working with her -- >> and really praised how, as i said before, that she would just soak up all this information. so i don't doubt, we don't doubt that she can't learn it, it's just whether she will. .. about the bridge to nowhere which word really shaky let's just say and alaskans knew that better than all of us and they couldn't believe when she was going up there making these bo
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and 30's of migrant farmworkers to unionize. in several cases the big growers arrange to get hundreds of their men deputized by county sheriffs, so is to be able to beat up strikers, educators and even journalists in federal mediators. there were killings. growers build private stockades in which they locked up their opponents, without charges. lange drived several times to photograph these strikes and always failed. heard this ability meant that she could not move quickly especially when burdened with heavy cameras and they show these because i want to remind you what the cameras looked like. she never used a 35 mm cameras. she used these very large and heavy cameras and whenever possible use the tripod. she had a lot to lug around. photojournalist robert pappas said famously if your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough. lange could not get close enough and none of her pictures of these strikes and other similar complex turned out well. i think this failure had a lot to do with gender as well as with disability
and 30's of migrant farmworkers to unionize. in several cases the big growers arrange to get hundreds of their men deputized by county sheriffs, so is to be able to beat up strikers, educators and even journalists in federal mediators. there were killings. growers build private stockades in which they locked up their opponents, without charges. lange drived several times to photograph these strikes and always failed. heard this ability meant that she could not move quickly especially when...
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recognizes the soviet remember it as a sovereign nation. 1930's, well among other things there are the purge trials, the reign of terror in the soviet union putting the old revolutionaries, stalin's peers go on trial. that's what kessler is writing about in darkness and noon. 1939 stalin makes a pact with hitler and hitler invaded poland, so they are both together, and we are watching mostly on the other side, but watching. 1941 hitler invaded russia. suddenly soviet russia switches from an enemy to perhaps an ally becomes an ally. we are allies in world war ii. there are these great conference is selling hauer europe will be after the war, to iran yalta and potsdam were working with russia in this period, and then after the war 45 on world war ii is over, the cold war is beginning, we are beginning to realize russia is at least not the kind of ally we had imagined, so the point is this relationship, the u.s.-soviet relationship flip-flops' a lot and americans are going through this trying to figure out what they make of it all. professor fleming, you chose for figures. let's start wit
recognizes the soviet remember it as a sovereign nation. 1930's, well among other things there are the purge trials, the reign of terror in the soviet union putting the old revolutionaries, stalin's peers go on trial. that's what kessler is writing about in darkness and noon. 1939 stalin makes a pact with hitler and hitler invaded poland, so they are both together, and we are watching mostly on the other side, but watching. 1941 hitler invaded russia. suddenly soviet russia switches from an...
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everybody refers to the 1930's, 1940's, the 1970's and all of the factors from our past. we made things here. we don't make much here anymore. most of the good jobs we outsourced or wheat -- or we insouced foreign labor. it is bleak when you see 800 applicants for one position dared -- one position. until we get jobs, i think we are done. host: a different viewpoint from twitter. chicago, up next, evelyn on our democrats line. caller: good morning, and thank you for c-span and in the area where i live it is bad and has been bad sense of the steel mills went down back in the 1970's. it has never really recovered. just so many jobless people out here, people who are hungry. i work in the food pantries and it is just phenomenal. we out here in the particular -- this particular area to not use the word recession, but depression. it will go on forever. thank you for your time. host: statewide perspective from "the new york times." new york will be left with just 36 million in the bank by the end of december. host: croft and, md. -- we are asking faults where they have changed
everybody refers to the 1930's, 1940's, the 1970's and all of the factors from our past. we made things here. we don't make much here anymore. most of the good jobs we outsourced or wheat -- or we insouced foreign labor. it is bleak when you see 800 applicants for one position dared -- one position. until we get jobs, i think we are done. host: a different viewpoint from twitter. chicago, up next, evelyn on our democrats line. caller: good morning, and thank you for c-span and in the area where...
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1970's.ut after that rural areas started gaining population. what we are seeing now is that some rural areas are losing population, but other are gaining population. it kind of depends on where they are located and what their economic base is. host: you write that they might be sparsely populated out there, surrounded by farm fields with a population of just 100,000 residents next door. guest: the reality is that a lot of people drive to work every day. in the city of eureka. that is the way that many people are living in the united states, living in a sparsely populated place but working someplace else. host: this is not norman rockwell? guest: exactly. the myth of america as a place where there are these family farmers goes back to the days of thomas jefferson, it has always been held up as the ideal, the bedrock of american values. less and less does that actual situation exist. host: what does that mean about how congress funds the forms? who operates and pays for it? guest: there are sti
1970's.ut after that rural areas started gaining population. what we are seeing now is that some rural areas are losing population, but other are gaining population. it kind of depends on where they are located and what their economic base is. host: you write that they might be sparsely populated out there, surrounded by farm fields with a population of just 100,000 residents next door. guest: the reality is that a lot of people drive to work every day. in the city of eureka. that is the way...
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and '50's.ericans to decided to go down with a handful of mercenaries and maybe start fighting in a civil war in the latin american countrymen tried to take it over. this was considered a great thing by kind of southern and confederate leaning individuals who thought that this would be a natural feel to expand slavery. >> especially in the case of cuba, which after the fall of the spanish empire in latin america, of course cuba remained the czar, the jewel of the spanish overseas possessions and there is large-scale slavery there already, and there were a lot of cubans were fighting very hard for independence as well, and there was also the large cuban population in new york, which my classmate alexandro perez is writing about. and come iq but especially, the southerners are looking to expand slavery, but walker has who ended up landing in san francisco, he made-- invaded mexico unsuccessfully with the handful of men and then he got a contract to fight for one side of the nicaraguan civil wars o
and '50's.ericans to decided to go down with a handful of mercenaries and maybe start fighting in a civil war in the latin american countrymen tried to take it over. this was considered a great thing by kind of southern and confederate leaning individuals who thought that this would be a natural feel to expand slavery. >> especially in the case of cuba, which after the fall of the spanish empire in latin america, of course cuba remained the czar, the jewel of the spanish overseas...
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s. i would like to see the independence of m.p.'s made more important. in particular on a day like this when we are enacting supposedly the pomp of the independence of m.p.'s when in fact the m.p.'s are not very independent because of the power of the whip. we have the earl marshall there greeting lord mannedleson. he is here for the first time in his role as lord president of the council. this is the first time in 40 years or so that the lord president of the council is not a leader of the chamber leader of the commons or chamber leader. and he is following in the footsteps of his grandfather who between 1945 and 1951 was also lord president. so a bit of a family fedex, too. we are looking at him there, quite a remarkable transformation. >> extraordinary. it is unthinkable that he would be back in the cabinet, let alone effectively deputy prime minister. what was not on camera this morning, thought well known, is that peter went straight from the radio and television studios to hold an election style news conference. it looks like one, sounds like one?
s. i would like to see the independence of m.p.'s made more important. in particular on a day like this when we are enacting supposedly the pomp of the independence of m.p.'s when in fact the m.p.'s are not very independent because of the power of the whip. we have the earl marshall there greeting lord mannedleson. he is here for the first time in his role as lord president of the council. this is the first time in 40 years or so that the lord president of the council is not a leader of the...
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let me put one question to the three panelists that someowhat s at a broader level. in each administration that you work worked, the united states had a difficult time coming up with what phillip zelikow calls a new master script for american fortune policy. if you look at the events, the collapse of the wall and attacks of 9/11, the government did a pretty decent job in the kind of tactical response and cleanup to the immediate after mamath in b situations in terms of unification of germany and germany within nato and after 9/11 in terms of the invasion of afghanistan. where things started to get maybe shaky was in the longer-term plan. in terms of the bush administration 34 did have a doctrine after, a while afternoon 9/11 by the fall of 2002 that seemed to guide things and seemed to be problematic. walter slocombe has discussed how the one strategy the clinton administration did have that was kind of long term led to poor results. eric adelman has made the case that the d.g.p. was a success and guided the administration but as hesitanted at by the questions this m
let me put one question to the three panelists that someowhat s at a broader level. in each administration that you work worked, the united states had a difficult time coming up with what phillip zelikow calls a new master script for american fortune policy. if you look at the events, the collapse of the wall and attacks of 9/11, the government did a pretty decent job in the kind of tactical response and cleanup to the immediate after mamath in b situations in terms of unification of germany...
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s that give money to other candidates.it seems to me kind of rid klutz to throw the majority of the leader of the house that gives a lot of money to democrats, almost more than most parties, and not consider him part of the core party organization. and then outside of that, i would consider groups that give virtually all of their support for one party as party allies, and that they would need to be considered, too. i would not throw party identifiers out, but i wouldn't give them much weight. and then there are all these independent voters, independent journalists. i'd keep them out as well. so the way i'd conceptualize them is a core organization with different layers outside, and then i guess the key thing would be to understand that the relationships are based on money, based on who founded who, and most of these 527 groups were founded by former party leaders. and then i would point out that the core group really does coordinate most of the strategy. maybe that's what parties are, have a tremendous impact on the flow o
s that give money to other candidates.it seems to me kind of rid klutz to throw the majority of the leader of the house that gives a lot of money to democrats, almost more than most parties, and not consider him part of the core party organization. and then outside of that, i would consider groups that give virtually all of their support for one party as party allies, and that they would need to be considered, too. i would not throw party identifiers out, but i wouldn't give them much weight....
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whether it was leave it to beaver in the 1960's or the cosby show in the 19 80's. democrats didn't do well when that's a real majority was on young, on poor amah and i'm black. how badly? we know the record. but just bear with me on to statistics. democrats won 50% of the vote. only twice since 1970 and that was jimmy carter in 1976 and obama in 2008. not bill clinton not harry truman not john off kennedy. if we go back further on fdr, lbj, carter, and obama have received the 50% mark. i think the real majority that unyoung, unpoor, unblack it works well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think about for a moment. the new deal was geared towards a nation that was one third joe clark, ill housed, ill marist as roosevelt told us in 1937. in short, there was work to do and that work was successful. so that by 1980, we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that wasn't worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much, spent too much, pu
whether it was leave it to beaver in the 1960's or the cosby show in the 19 80's. democrats didn't do well when that's a real majority was on young, on poor amah and i'm black. how badly? we know the record. but just bear with me on to statistics. democrats won 50% of the vote. only twice since 1970 and that was jimmy carter in 1976 and obama in 2008. not bill clinton not harry truman not john off kennedy. if we go back further on fdr, lbj, carter, and obama have received the 50% mark. i think...
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s who have spoken is at least 109, so i think we have done well. that concludes the debate for today. we will choose which of the five that was debated today will be the campaigning priority in the coming year. all members have an opportunity to vote once for their chosen subject by means of secret ballot. those of you on my right should leave the chamber by the door behind me and turn left into the lobby behind you. if you go out there and go left, that way. wait a minute. let me just finish explaining the procedure. i am glad that your enthusiastic to vote. that is a great start. those on my left should leave by the door at the far end -- sorry, far end and turn left into the lobby behind you. in the lobby, you will be given a ballot paper with the five debate subjects listed. you should place a cross by the one that you believe to be the most important, and then place the paper in the ballot box at the end of the lobby. after you vote, please return to your place in the chamber. members of the house of commons staff will be on hand to assist you
s who have spoken is at least 109, so i think we have done well. that concludes the debate for today. we will choose which of the five that was debated today will be the campaigning priority in the coming year. all members have an opportunity to vote once for their chosen subject by means of secret ballot. those of you on my right should leave the chamber by the door behind me and turn left into the lobby behind you. if you go out there and go left, that way. wait a minute. let me just finish...
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's. it doesn't have to be that way, and small towns can benefit from the investments that will pay off. and these are labour intensive things. at the larger national level, there are things that need to happen that big government has to do to help small towns. part of this is providing the support for the grain economy and for rethinking how we produce food. part of this is reforming labor laws and agribusiness. one of the reasons the wages of a meat packer are felt they were 30 years ago it's very simple agrobusiness can get away with it. and if i can take something from mexico and pay $5 an hour to do something i was being a local guy -- not only will i do it but darn it i'm going to get away with it and they have. and they say to the states like iowa well, if you let these guys organize and let local people organize and agitate for a living wage we are just going to move. my question to that is where are you going to move? the food is here. the land is here. do you think you are going
's. it doesn't have to be that way, and small towns can benefit from the investments that will pay off. and these are labour intensive things. at the larger national level, there are things that need to happen that big government has to do to help small towns. part of this is providing the support for the grain economy and for rethinking how we produce food. part of this is reforming labor laws and agribusiness. one of the reasons the wages of a meat packer are felt they were 30 years ago it's...
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we will not go back to the 1930's where there was a depression. the international monetary fund had one main job, and that was to have a stable monetary system, fixed exchange rates among currencies. they would have to be fixed to the dollar and the dollar would be fixed to the gold. >> does any country in the world back up its currency with gold today? >> no. that is why i have real resentment of the international monetary fund, because when the u.s. went off of that system under president nixon in august of 1971, instead of fighting to maintain a stable monetary system or figure out how to get back to 1, which is what i think the imf should have fought to do, it waited a few years and then it accepted that. now, any country can have any kind of exchange arraignment they want, floating, fixed, they can have a currency board, they can piggyback to another country's currency. the only thing they cannot do is pay their money to gold -- peg their money to gold. in the meantime, the imf's sits on virtually all of the gold that was contributed from the
we will not go back to the 1930's where there was a depression. the international monetary fund had one main job, and that was to have a stable monetary system, fixed exchange rates among currencies. they would have to be fixed to the dollar and the dollar would be fixed to the gold. >> does any country in the world back up its currency with gold today? >> no. that is why i have real resentment of the international monetary fund, because when the u.s. went off of that system under...
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a similar phenomenon. 1980's is a similar story. 70's and 60's and again, the coverage differs there is not the same data but a very similar story the u.s. is pretty far down the list in this particular measure of how big a deal is holiday spending relative to the rest of the year? so there is good news for americans particularly those who have image problems and we're not alone are not even leaders. there is bad news and that probably outweighs the good news. the bad news is it you think you are convinced in billion was a problem than the world wide number is much bigger. if you tally up holiday spending around the major economies of the world instead of 65 billion you get 145 billion, the waste is on the order of 25 billion per year. that is the bad news and it is probably worse parker probably outweighs the good news. i could say i have done some surveys about the real question of how much the people value their gaffes relative to purchases around the world and it is just a quick glimpse, the very worst is that and losses followed by a aunt & uncle and every survey does pretty wel
a similar phenomenon. 1980's is a similar story. 70's and 60's and again, the coverage differs there is not the same data but a very similar story the u.s. is pretty far down the list in this particular measure of how big a deal is holiday spending relative to the rest of the year? so there is good news for americans particularly those who have image problems and we're not alone are not even leaders. there is bad news and that probably outweighs the good news. the bad news is it you think you...
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it just wasn't done at the time because he graduated in the early 90's or late 80s.e said no days either you are a laborer or working on a computer and you know if you don't have a lot of skills like i don't than you had better get them fast because that is what you need, so he was very much aware that these were the kinds of things that he would focus on, so there was that awareness that in some ways we talk a little bit in some of the, some of the book and some of the presentation how work sometimes betrays these guys because they bind to the idea that work will save you. if you work hard, he will make it. yes and no. the will make it but one other guy, and this one really sticks with me. he says here i am and i am earning the same 40 years later. there is no benefits and it burns me that this is the first generation that won't do better than our parents. that is again something that is very poignant so i hope that answers your question. in the front here. >> i am curious if you did research are any percentages on older people that return back to their hometown? >>
it just wasn't done at the time because he graduated in the early 90's or late 80s.e said no days either you are a laborer or working on a computer and you know if you don't have a lot of skills like i don't than you had better get them fast because that is what you need, so he was very much aware that these were the kinds of things that he would focus on, so there was that awareness that in some ways we talk a little bit in some of the, some of the book and some of the presentation how work...
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this is back in the 1800's.ld not raise a significant amount of money but it depends on what the rate would be and what would be taxed. there are always disincentives that that would discourage imports and drive up the cost of imports. that would have an affect on the economy. that would prompt other countries to raise tariffs on our exports. does not clear that we would end up any better, frankly, if we took on that strategy. host: fairfax, va., on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for your insights this morning, mr. bakes be. -- mr bixby. my republicans are looking at the incentives as not genuine. some of us felt it was a monumental achievement during the clinton administration. when a lot of the war funding was not included in the budget during the bush administration, that was a great concern. menem -- many of us felt the budget numbers were not true at that point because there was a so much off the books. my question is -- can president obama -- what measures were taken in the clinton administratio
this is back in the 1800's.ld not raise a significant amount of money but it depends on what the rate would be and what would be taxed. there are always disincentives that that would discourage imports and drive up the cost of imports. that would have an affect on the economy. that would prompt other countries to raise tariffs on our exports. does not clear that we would end up any better, frankly, if we took on that strategy. host: fairfax, va., on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for...
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that would happen in the 1980's. >> and the 1990's i got in excess of 90 questions in 30 minutes. >> wow. >> if you look historically, it is not such an anomaly. thomas is very popular at court with the expansion of justices and ball parks, very engaging and funny. this is someone who, if he is paying attention. >> and if you read some of the literature done about his role in cases, it jan greenberg wrote a book or she painted him as being highly influential in important cases. so i think some people draw the wrong inferences from his silence from the bench. when people say this to me, i say, well, justice brennan did not ask questions and he is a hero to a lot of court watchers. one time, i was on the court room and he was asking questions that i said to someone a very long time ago, justice brennan was active today. and they said, his granddaughter was in the courtroom. i do not know if that was true, but -- >> one day, justice thomas was unbelievably active. it was a case of virginia involving whether it was a violation of first amendment for virginia to make it unlawful to burn a
that would happen in the 1980's. >> and the 1990's i got in excess of 90 questions in 30 minutes. >> wow. >> if you look historically, it is not such an anomaly. thomas is very popular at court with the expansion of justices and ball parks, very engaging and funny. this is someone who, if he is paying attention. >> and if you read some of the literature done about his role in cases, it jan greenberg wrote a book or she painted him as being highly influential in important...
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s long-term budget outlook.his picture is from last summer, as i said so it actually predates the august update to our 10-year outlook. if you look carefully at the jumping-off point it won't match the picture but the general trend here is not dependent on that. the line to the right is what we call the extended baseline scenario that assumes the current law unfolds roughly as written. for example if, the tax cuts expired. payments to doctors or medicare are not adjusted. you can see that it is a matter of time under the extended baseline scenario the budget deficit or this case, the debt is roughly sideways for a number of years, the return to the fiscal scenario begins to move up almost immediately but in any event over the longer run, you can see the fiscal policy very clearly. let's delve a little deeper into that. let's talk about aging and health spending. this picture just shows the population of the country age 65 or older as a percentage of the population ages 20-64. this is essentially the ratio of peo
s long-term budget outlook.his picture is from last summer, as i said so it actually predates the august update to our 10-year outlook. if you look carefully at the jumping-off point it won't match the picture but the general trend here is not dependent on that. the line to the right is what we call the extended baseline scenario that assumes the current law unfolds roughly as written. for example if, the tax cuts expired. payments to doctors or medicare are not adjusted. you can see that it is...
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the radicalism of the 1960's, the sexual and drug revolution s. there was more of a clutching more closely. social issues were critical. i started noticing in 1999, 2000 the kids that were coming from the same church as i went to court wearing birkenstock ss. there were looking like bohemians. what issues are important to you? they would say africa. aids in africa. it is amazing. there has been a shift, especially among evangelicals. in part, it is because of the ark of how things are going. there is a lot more commonality among a younger american. if you do me a favor and get nasty. just start saying mean things. arianna, we want you to throw things at dick armey. if you could launch a personal insult about howard and talk about his screaming i walk. -- iowa. john kasich, just look at how he dresses. start there. and salt meat. everybody else does. arianna huffington, we will ask you to be the first one. let's talk about capitalism. all -- although we have heard is that barack obama, democrats, a health care, socialized health care will destroy c
the radicalism of the 1960's, the sexual and drug revolution s. there was more of a clutching more closely. social issues were critical. i started noticing in 1999, 2000 the kids that were coming from the same church as i went to court wearing birkenstock ss. there were looking like bohemians. what issues are important to you? they would say africa. aids in africa. it is amazing. there has been a shift, especially among evangelicals. in part, it is because of the ark of how things are going....
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s the germans captured about three and a third soviet p.o.w.'s in the first year of the war. >> three of zero 1/3 million. >> about two and 1/3 million were dead by the spring of 1942. several hundred thousand of them shot out right because they for communists or jews. more of them killed through forced labor and starvation, exposure, disease, simply being neglected. so that was the other end of the p.o.w. spectrum. you go further than that with the jews in the extermination centers who were simply brought there and killed. >> , the extermination centers have you discovered? >> we can't six. because we have this narrow definition of extermination center, that his primary purpose was to kill. and we avoid the term death camps for example because beckett's applied to a lot of places where a lot of people died in conditions were horrible, but the purpose was not primarily to kill people. so we count auschwitz, treblinka , and others -- not dachau. dachau was a concentration camp. >> really? and who was in the dachau? >> political prisoners at first
s the germans captured about three and a third soviet p.o.w.'s in the first year of the war. >> three of zero 1/3 million. >> about two and 1/3 million were dead by the spring of 1942. several hundred thousand of them shot out right because they for communists or jews. more of them killed through forced labor and starvation, exposure, disease, simply being neglected. so that was the other end of the p.o.w. spectrum. you go further than that with the jews in the extermination centers...
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s for us. host: what are you seeing it as far as private donations of the last couple of years during this recession? guest: we have seen just the opposite of a big draw. we have found in the case of hundred that people are more aware of this issue than ever before. over the last 20 years we have been trying to convince people we have conquered in this country. now people know it. we have seen a powerful surge, totally unexpected. there has been of high volume of low-dollar giving. it has resulted in share our strength having its largest revenue of over the last 20 years. host: given that number again. guest: about $24 million per year. host: what about staff and labor expenses? guest: those expenses probably come to about $2.50 million per year. all of those folks -- those are not involved in raising money, rather in most cases on the nutrition education side, educators working with young families around the country to make sure that they access food, not just food, but nutritious food. host:
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by now certainly the religious right are very powerful force in american presidential politics. 1960's is where they began for playing at a large and high political level. so, the oh good reasons i think for thinking about this election because those themes reverberate down to this date. what did i learn in the process of writing this book? two major lessons, but you have to read some 200 odd pages to get the details. first ava kennedy had a very sophisticated approach to his catholocism. heat all of his polling told him that this would be the major problem in the american electorate whether not they would vote for john kennedy or not. 50 years later that strikes us as a little odd in a sense that we don't tend to think i'm going to vote for that person or vote against the person based on his religious affiliation but in the mid 20 a century anti-catholicism was alive and well across a broad spectrum of society. conservative folks, moderate folk, even liberals had a very dim view of the roman catholic church in this country so ted sorensen said religion was the toughest issue they face
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50's or 60's. but that was kind of a movement book. >> so if you look around at political leaders right now, who is closest to a kirk and burke for you? >> i'd say right now it would have to be sarah palin. i think she's the premiere conservative. she has three things going for her. she has the convictions, she's got the charisma, and most important she's got the courage. the country right now is kind of heading very collectivist. and we see economically we're having problems with unemployment, a slowing economy and a growing government that's really kind of getting out of areas of the constitution really has promoted. and i think sarah palin right now is the champion of the libertarians and conservative movement in america today. >> we were allowed to release 1,000 kind of guaranteed line letters, people that we were pretty sure. and her team was pretty sure that she'd be able to get through in the three-hour signing. and then we also did 200 stand by tickets in groups of 50 to kind of run as time
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fox 5's lindsay murphy is here now with the latest details on what happened. >> reporter: there were some pretty intense moments in the early morning hours as tiger crashed his suv into a hydrant and a tree while pulling out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. his we heard the crash. she smashed in the car window with a golf club to help pull him out. he was in and out of consciousness when pice arrived to treat him. he was tone to the hospital where he -- taken to the hospital where he was treat and released. police say alcohol was not involved but the accident remains under investigation. no word where he was going at that hour. here's more from an officer on the scene. >> he was in and out of conshusness with lass -- consciousness with lacerations to his upper and lower lip. it was not life threatening injuries according to them. >> reporter: tiger is scheduled to host the chevron world challenge this week in california. no word on whether he still plans to play. >> thank you, lindsay. >>> let's talk about our windy weather a little bit. it made an otherwise loverly day. a -- lovely day.
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it makes no sense. >> the 80's and the 90's. telling the congress why that was just a terrible -- >> from 1995. robert rubin was talking about this notion that we could be competitive as a nation is our banks aren't allowed to do whatever it is that they do. it didn't work in today's modern world of finance. you just can't considered these because we are going to be at a loss. the united states will actually declined from financial supremacy of we don't allow our banks to do what the other banks are doing. >> of the congress repealed. what was the immediate result? >> a wave of mergers. mergers that actually preceded. there was an idea where insurance companies could be a part. and everything started marching together. there was a first wave of mergers that happened. and the lobbying that year actually went down. so that as a small, temporary. and then what happened, more consolidation for the banking industry said that he went from a situation where the top bank said 20 percent of the assets and deposits to now the top they sai
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s home in brentwood. simpson surrendered and was taken into custody. thus ending ten hours of drama that had unfolded live across the country. >>> in 2001, nascar was the hottest sport in the country. the stock car circuit was beginning a multibillion dollar television deal. >> the green flag were racing. >> the first race of the season, the daytona 500 was going down to the wire. >> the last lap. three wide behind them. >> you got it, mikey. >> the 3 car down. >> oh. >> big trouble. >> they wrecked behind them. >> get it back. >> to the flag, come on, mikey, yon.go >> michael waltrip wins. >> how about dale? is he okay? is he okay? >> michael waltrip's long awaited trip to victory lane was destined to be overshadowed by tragic news. >> this is undoubtedly one of the toughest announcements that i've ever personally had to make, but after the accident in turn four at the end of the daytona 500, we've lost dale earnhardt. we don't know enough to answer all your questions. our prayers and wishes and our effort right now this moment is with theresa and the
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s were given 95% of fee for service because they were going to save costs. they were going to save costs to the individual. they were going to save costs to the government. 95%. but lo and behold, in 2003, in the medicare prescription drug benefit, it not only set up what i described a while ago as this unusual doughnut hole and drugs that can't be discounted to the federal government when it's buying drugs in bulk for millions of medicare recipients, it also set up we're going to give a cushy arrangement to insurance companies that insurance companies that want to sign up medicare recipients are going to get 14% more per patient, 114% instead of hundred% of -- instead of 100% of medicare fee for service. is there any wonder that costs are exploding in medicare if suddenly a program gets 14% more per patient than what the standard base line ought to be, which is medicare fee for service? it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. and because insurance companies, medicare h.m.o.'s, its fancy name is medicare advantage, because they get more, 14% m
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as a young manager in the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were not a lot of resources to help usmake decisions about races around the country. the political report was the best decision making tool we had available. waiting for that booklet with the three hole punched in it every couple weeks was frankly and pathetically the highlight of my career. if charlie was a book, he would have some blurbs on his back from people like "the new york times." bob schieffer from cbs news, the bible of a political community. "the washington post", perhaps the best record of political races. we have been looking forward to this throughout the two days of this conference. put your hands together for charlie cook and his panel. >> i am going to go over here in the format -- the format lens itself to being over there. the reason is i can do a better job standing then seated. my wife says standing maximizes the difference -- distance between my head and my ass. thanks for the kind words the center is doing such important work, from the history of mankind for as long as there has been politics, peopl
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1960's, and early 1970's. at first glance, the answer seems to be yes. i would call your attention to two things -- we have been here before as we were in the late 1990's but the interesting thing is that i think what we are looking at here is not much more than an election spike again. most of this tells a story that parties are the movers on american politics. it moves around a little bit. it moves around in concert to short-term electoral forces. what you're looking at here is the fact that the democrats, barack obama, were on a roll. what that role reflects is a relative surge in democratic identification. the question is, is that enduring? the answer seems to be no. i have gallup data. these the only people that collect data on things we tend to be interested in between elections. they have identical data for the same period time. their numbers were something like 52% democrat, 39% republican at the time of the election which dropped to, following the election, it dropped to 49% democrat in june and in th
1960's, and early 1970's. at first glance, the answer seems to be yes. i would call your attention to two things -- we have been here before as we were in the late 1990's but the interesting thing is that i think what we are looking at here is not much more than an election spike again. most of this tells a story that parties are the movers on american politics. it moves around a little bit. it moves around in concert to short-term electoral forces. what you're looking at here is the fact that...
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and 40's. she came out of that. she had a knowledge and the passion for that form of design. second, her recently deceased husband had been a professor of marketing. they had to share ideas about how do you persuade and influence people, particularly in areas of consumer choice. with those two elements she said you are making the big mistake. the future of south beach is not going to be to replicate mickey mouse. the future of south beach is going to be to save this special architecture, to save the romance and nostalgia that for many americans they associate with south be. i am going to lead the effort to overcome all of these groups that are abdicating its destruction. in three years based on her knowledge of and ability to influence key decision makers in miami beach in dade county, in florida, and in washington south beach became the first national historic district that commenced in the 20th century in the been at states of america. a very audacious objective brilliantly executed and achie
and 40's. she came out of that. she had a knowledge and the passion for that form of design. second, her recently deceased husband had been a professor of marketing. they had to share ideas about how do you persuade and influence people, particularly in areas of consumer choice. with those two elements she said you are making the big mistake. the future of south beach is not going to be to replicate mickey mouse. the future of south beach is going to be to save this special architecture, to...
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s sheriff's deputies.hey caught him sticky handed when he slapped on "who is john scott" stickers on a subway station. john scott was arrested and charged. >>> a secret society linked two former presidents has long been rumored to have the skull of a warrior. geronimo's accidents now say they have even more proof of a 100-year-old crime. of the ft. hooded shootings. the funerals of six victims killed in the massacre. >>> police have arrested the mother of a missing 5-year-old girl and charges of child abuse may be the least shocking of accusations against her. >>> plus, how much money do you think a perfect cow is worth? well, this one is the bovine version of best in show and you've got to hear how much someone paid for her. >>> hey, there. thanks for having us over. his hln. i'm virginia cha. president obama landed in china this morning, the third stop of his tour in asia. earlier today, he did cover some grounding, negotiating a new nuclear agreement with russia. he met russian president dmitry medvedev
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s are governing.awyer ra, over to you. >> indeed hue and members of the public, they have been packing in the lobby, many waiting to see the procession and try to spot their own m.p. perhaps, and they come from recall over the country to see this huge event here in parliament. joining me is the leader of the scottish national party. your reaction to the speech? >> i think there's more in the next legislation, very little of this will pass through. one has to welcome eneffort to clear up the mess after the crash. of course, regulation is a matter dealt by the u.k. government and it was the chancellor who was responsible. they're trying to clear up their own mess and they hope it works. beyond that, there's little in this that has anything to do with scotland whatsoever, it is a missed opportunity. there so much that could have been delivered in the speech. agreement across the parties and the common commission has made proposals. we agree with some proposals and happy to see them go forward. and the u.
s are governing.awyer ra, over to you. >> indeed hue and members of the public, they have been packing in the lobby, many waiting to see the procession and try to spot their own m.p. perhaps, and they come from recall over the country to see this huge event here in parliament. joining me is the leader of the scottish national party. your reaction to the speech? >> i think there's more in the next legislation, very little of this will pass through. one has to welcome eneffort to...
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y'all know what an s curve looks like. this is the upscale of the es curve -- the s curve. this is the upscale. this is the tough part. this is the lift that we have to do. this is what we have to do in this congress. to think about how we will do that. each year, we have had bigger and bolder ideas to see beyond this year's urgency and look ahead to what it will take to scale this up. so, today's topics, and i want to thank the cochairs of this conference, who, since august, have been meeting in conference calls to plan the topic of this year. we went through phases, thinking it was copenhagen. it must be the steppingstone to copenhagen, but then we thought no, it is a steppingstone to copenhagen, but renewable energy scale is still its own task. bacto the issues of today, that will be discussed on this stage today, it is the framework of policy. we have different perspectives from technology, industry, labour, finance, all different perspectives to be brought to bear in setting up a framework for the policy's going forward. -- the policies going forward. we already saw th
y'all know what an s curve looks like. this is the upscale of the es curve -- the s curve. this is the upscale. this is the tough part. this is the lift that we have to do. this is what we have to do in this congress. to think about how we will do that. each year, we have had bigger and bolder ideas to see beyond this year's urgency and look ahead to what it will take to scale this up. so, today's topics, and i want to thank the cochairs of this conference, who, since august, have been meeting...
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is there something in the technology compared to the technology of broadcast tv and the 50's or 60's that leads to more polarization? >> more accountability. go to the lieberman reelection campaign in connecticut. with the level of anonymity on a statewide race with people blocking and writing at a local level, the vitriol it passed the candidates and individual on the campaign. people making up things, the most hateful things of mid-level staffers. i had a staffer call me in tears one night at very upset. she is number 4 out of 12 kids from chicago. she said, what do i tell my little brothers who were seen this on the blog about me? there are people who hate joe lieberman and are writing this about me. >> a couple of years ago i said i assume that the nominees would be obama and mccain. they were both at the candidate he was some more post partisan and last divisive at least in the public mind set. there were many people saying how could you make that case. how do you make an ad or campaign based upon that? >> you saw this happen in the coleman race. >> you cannot impose your will o
is there something in the technology compared to the technology of broadcast tv and the 50's or 60's that leads to more polarization? >> more accountability. go to the lieberman reelection campaign in connecticut. with the level of anonymity on a statewide race with people blocking and writing at a local level, the vitriol it passed the candidates and individual on the campaign. people making up things, the most hateful things of mid-level staffers. i had a staffer call me in tears one...
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there income fell down to levels in the 1970's so people in that thing on 1970's income in the 21st century. poverty jumped from any levin ten-year hi, 13.2%. another report from "usa today" analyzing the census differently, the incomes of young and middle-aged especially men have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many groups poorer than they were even in the 1970's. poor then they were even in the 1970's. there is another study from the university of st. louis, and nearly half of all u.s. children will use food stamps during their lifetime. 49% of all u.s. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood said mark rink, a poverty expert at the george warren school of social work at washington university. his steady entitled estimating the risk of food stamp use an empowerments with in the adolescent medicine found 90% of african-american children will be on food stamps at some point in their life. nearly one-quarter of all american children will be in households that use food stamps for five years or more. 91% of children of single mothers, of
there income fell down to levels in the 1970's so people in that thing on 1970's income in the 21st century. poverty jumped from any levin ten-year hi, 13.2%. another report from "usa today" analyzing the census differently, the incomes of young and middle-aged especially men have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many groups poorer than they were even in the 1970's. poor then they were even in the 1970's. there is another study from the university of st. louis, and nearly half...
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that is the entire dividend that we got from productivity since the 90's. these are not nesmall numbers. economists -- the reason i say it is necessary, we cannot raise taxes with the current system enough to accommodate. for a variety of reasons, we will see that. you asked about jobs. the first is to focus. if you really want to focus on the economy, don't be simultaneously trying to do cap-in-trade and health care. try to figure out what you want to do. we have been talking about mandates in the health care bill, set to increase taxes, all of these things are job killers. that would include a focus on basic skills. >> let me just ask you a related question. i know you have written on it. the congressional budget office has projected that over the next 10 years, national debt will rise from 41% of gross domestic product which it was in 2008, to 82%. two related questions. will we be able to fund this debt without destroying the credibility of the dollar? and relatedly, will we be forced to raise interest rates enough to get them to buy these bonds? what i
that is the entire dividend that we got from productivity since the 90's. these are not nesmall numbers. economists -- the reason i say it is necessary, we cannot raise taxes with the current system enough to accommodate. for a variety of reasons, we will see that. you asked about jobs. the first is to focus. if you really want to focus on the economy, don't be simultaneously trying to do cap-in-trade and health care. try to figure out what you want to do. we have been talking about mandates in...
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s when did that were extremely loyal to richard fuld and extremely silent to richard fuld. the beginning of the story is what i am the most proud about if you walk into any bookstore in our country, you see piles and piles of financial books a lot of them written about the crisis but their foreign journalists and academics and patrick and i wanted to make this a human story to make people understand finance -- finance bring main street deep inside of wall street and help people to understand what happens in an investment bank and how it works. lehman brothers 158 year-old investment banker to 150 years. the brothers survives the civil war, the great depression, world war i, a world war ii, the korean war the nixon impeachment, it survives so much, 9/11. but what she could not survive was the change, a very dramatic change of business philosophy. and then they should business bank the reason is survived is it was in the moving business. campbell soup corporation 80 years ago wanted to build their first plant and make the first investment to create some jobs for pro it came t
s when did that were extremely loyal to richard fuld and extremely silent to richard fuld. the beginning of the story is what i am the most proud about if you walk into any bookstore in our country, you see piles and piles of financial books a lot of them written about the crisis but their foreign journalists and academics and patrick and i wanted to make this a human story to make people understand finance -- finance bring main street deep inside of wall street and help people to understand...
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y'all know what an s curve looks like. this is the upscale of the es curve -- the s curve. this is the upscale. this is the tough part. this is the lift that we have to do. this is what we have to do in this congress. to think about how we will do that. each year, we have had bigger and bolder ideas to see beyond this year's urgency and look ahead to what it will take to scale this up. so, today's topics, and i want to thank the cochairs of this conference, who, since august, have been meeting in conference calls to plan the topic of this year. we went through phases, thinking it was copenhagen. it must be the steppingstone to copenhagen, but then we thought no, it is a steppingstone to copenhagen, but renewable energy scale is still its own task. bacto the issues of today, that will be discussed on this stage today, it is the framework of policy. we have different perspectives from technology, industry, labour, finance, all different perspectives to be brought to bear in setting up a framework for the policy's going forward. -- the policies going forward. we already saw th
y'all know what an s curve looks like. this is the upscale of the es curve -- the s curve. this is the upscale. this is the tough part. this is the lift that we have to do. this is what we have to do in this congress. to think about how we will do that. each year, we have had bigger and bolder ideas to see beyond this year's urgency and look ahead to what it will take to scale this up. so, today's topics, and i want to thank the cochairs of this conference, who, since august, have been meeting...
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the problem was so bad by the late 90's that fannie mae actually said we're going to give you all aid to over. because we are finding that which were saying about those is not conforming to what is actually there, we are going to give you aid to over and not ask to take the loans back. that just encourage more of this kind of lending. >> host: more risk-taking. >> guest: what's interesting is people in the prices look at subprime lenders like countrywide and said that the problem with countrywide causing the problems -- countrywide to issue the kinds of loans that they issued to praise the no money down lines because they sold those loans to fannie mae. they didn't actually hold on the books. >> host: they said that there is an implied promise from the federal government to step in. what i don't understand is it seems like along the chain your local bank freddie and fannie, a big investment houses that trade in this commercial paper, aig which is the insurance company for the commercial paper. why didn't anybody along the way say we've got a problem here? especially when freddie and f
the problem was so bad by the late 90's that fannie mae actually said we're going to give you all aid to over. because we are finding that which were saying about those is not conforming to what is actually there, we are going to give you aid to over and not ask to take the loans back. that just encourage more of this kind of lending. >> host: more risk-taking. >> guest: what's interesting is people in the prices look at subprime lenders like countrywide and said that the problem...
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boy, he s he playing with some less than ideal circumstances today, though. >> dave: second down. will throw out of the shotgun. green won't get it. johnny brown on the coverage. that will bring on third down and long. dixon to the 31. that is well shy of the first down. >> andre: if they kicked it from here, it would be a 48- yard field goal. >> dave: dan mullen calling out the kick team. the longest this year is 43. >> andre: boy, that sack really hurt them, because any positive points without the sack would have them a lot closer than where they're sitting to try this. >> dave: off the hold of chris cameron. snap is good, hold is good. here the kick on the way. it's good! no harm down. 48 yards! a new career long for the junior out of the woodlands, texas. >> andre: well, what good football game. >> dave: so the bulldogs take the opening drive of the second half and tie the game up at 13. >> dave: tied at 13, the ole miss and mississippi state rivalry going back to 1901. >> andre: you told me, you have been a part of a few . >> andre: you told me earlier the n the week it was g
boy, he s he playing with some less than ideal circumstances today, though. >> dave: second down. will throw out of the shotgun. green won't get it. johnny brown on the coverage. that will bring on third down and long. dixon to the 31. that is well shy of the first down. >> andre: if they kicked it from here, it would be a 48- yard field goal. >> dave: dan mullen calling out the kick team. the longest this year is 43. >> andre: boy, that sack really hurt them, because...