to talk about how you would redesign the federal government using lean six sigma. and, these things, they grow. they develop, and i was there when welfare reform was a really strange idea and when welfare reform was i universally accepted idea and when kemp was developing supply-side economics and i was a candidate, losing my second race in 1976 and talked to jack kemp in savannah, and he was an evangelical for supply-side economics. and by 1981, it became something which flipped the democratic party and a third of the democrats voted for the kemp tax law. and ideas can grow and can develop. >> young man there in the yellow tie. >> thank you for your remarks -- >> a mere child when i first came to heritage. >> provocative speech at a lot of levels and you made one point about the concentration of the power of the committee, and 12 individuals, heightening the ideological differences and by extension, height then chances it will come to some kind of ideological gridlock and you referred to the question mechanism... the defense cuts especially, but, also, additional

i would take lean six sigma and over the entire state visa process. this was first done in government and iowa, in order to redevelop the business attraction program by applying this kind of thinking to make it faster and easier. the developer believes it is worth $500 billion a year. the entire supersecret intelligence committee of 12 is only trying to get $1.50 trillion over the next 10 years. that is a very different approach. we have talked with ibm, american express, and visa. they have very sophisticated anti-fraud systems. the u.s. government has no effective anti-prod system. if you apply prod system to medicare and medicaid, you could save up to $100 billion the year. if you applied to food stamps, it could save $20 billion a year. i just saved in that one device almost as much money as the entire committee of 12 is going to try to save, but it is a new idea. it is a different way of thinking things. it is not conservative or liberal. is just being smart and applying modern techniques and management to do things intelligently. i second challe

the lean six sigma. --we're doing aconferenc conference call tomorrow and we already have over 500 people signed up to talk about how you would redesign the federal government. these things, they grow, they develop. i was there when welfare reform was a really strange ideas and when it was a universal idea. there were developing supply side economics and i was a candidate. losing my second race in 1976. i first talked to jack kemp in savannah, ga., an evangelist for supply-side economics. by 1981, it split the democratic party. ideas can grow and develop. >> the young man right there in the yellow tie. >> he was a mere child when i first came to heritage. [laughter] >> a very provocative speech. the concentration of the power and individuals will heighten the ideological differences and by extension, high and the --- heighten the chances that it will come to an ideological grid lock. the defense cuts especially, but there is additional cuts on providers of medicare and other cuts to things that other pol

not refusing to meet with constituents on an appointment basis he's refusing to let these morons sigmas office all day for it and do nothing i have no problem with that morons are saying we just want we just want to public to know they can't afford this is the same stupid a sandbox to get in town hall and rocks ok so so we establish a precedent that now it's ten dollars and then next year it becomes one hundred dollars and here i go yes on twenty i like the income taxes and it was once said that it was two percent so it was you have no forty percent you have no problem with our elected representatives saying the only way that you can talk to me is with cash go to ten dollars doesn't go into congressman paul's reelection coffers it goes to pay for the security of the event but the if the then you are having the event whatever it was actually this was a public public event it was paid for it is this is paid for by taxpayer dollars so in general you're saying that you don't have but in the principle of it i just want to get this clear you don't have a problem with members of congress sayin

we could integrate over th surface and the notation is usually a capital sigma. if these things end up being worth $.30 on the dollar. let's sawe go to some future state and these really are only worth $.30. the most the private investor loses in this situation is his $7. if this does not blow your mind then you have no emotion. >> charlie: i'm pleased to have sal khan at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: you have a position to tell others. >> i think so. yes that's with a i've turned into. >> charlie: what have you turned into. >> i've turned into someone, i guess from my point of view who gets to, i started off with the math and the physics and the science and the economics. something i knew fairly well from my background but now i've turned into someone who gets to learn pretty much anything and disstill it down and teach it. >> charlie: you're learning new things, distilling them and then teaching them. >> yes. >> charlie: give me the background you have. >> as you mentioned five, six years ago i was an an i was at a hedge bubbled. before i was m

that helps to remove the sigma from a lot of mental illnesses where i can now put a face on or hear morehe symptoms or various types of treatment. >> yeah, whenever everybody well known or famous, they come out and give information, and then people feel like they can talk about it. let's take a listen. >> i have a dream home. my house is beautiful. my wife did a great job putting our house together and finding the right house for us. we have two nice cars. we have three beautiful dogs. but with all that said, i haven't enjoyed not one part of it. >> so just through that anger or depression he could not feel the life he was living. he got treatment outside in boston and took part in a documentary that was made about borderline personality disorder. >> that is brave. >> yeah, very brave. >> that will help people to identify some of the things they are feeling. >> imagine, you have these outbursts and people might look at you and think you're a hot head. >> you may be a hot head, but it may because you have a disorder. there is treatment, but you have to identify it, and then find somebody

former house speaker newt gingrich was back in the nation's capital touting a concept known as lean six sigma speech at the heritage foundation, gingrich appear today contrast the way he handled the government shutdown of the 1990s with the way today's house has handled it. maybe i'm reading too much into this. >> we ended the government shutdown correctly. everybody got paid social security. everybody got paid in the military. everybody got paid at air traffic control. you don't have to be insanely stupid and threaten everybody in the country because you're incompetent. you can have very serious fights and do it in a way -- the only people that were irritated were people who came here as tourists. >> reporter: congresswoman michele bachmann is stumping today in south carolina, an early primary state. analysts are expecting her to sometime soon start drawing distinctions with governor perry whose entrance into the contest threatens her status. lastly, paul ryan, the wisconsin republican who has emerged as the gop's leading voice on fiscal issues, is said to be, quote, coming around to a decis

mike george is one of the creators of a management system called lean sic sigma.unds strange. well, it happens to be the kind of management system that i.b.m. uses, the kind of management system of the largest supply system in the world, the kind that boeing uses, the kind of management system that motorola pioneered. they recently brought 1,500 jobs back from china for arizona. they are more productive in arizona with higher paid american workers than in china. michael george believes if you apply the concepts to the american government, you would say $500 billion a year. that over 10 years is $5 trillion. over three times the goal of the super committee. do you think the super committee is going to have enough time and energy to learn what this is? do you think the staffs is going to learn what is this? no. they are going to be in an ideological fight, tax increase or not. and yet here sitting on the table, i.b.m., dell and a group of companies issued a report last year and said if you ran the federal government like a standard high tech company, there is $125 b

i guarantee that lien 6 sigma will in a year from now be a common thing. my george is right. he has over 20,000 islands -- mike george is righ p.t. he had over 20,000 iowans sign up for it. i was there when welfare was a radical idea. he was an evangelist. by 1981, i became something that split the democratic party. ideas can grow. they can grow. >> thank you for your remark. >> he was a mere child and a first came to heritage. -- when i first came to a heritage. >> you made a point about the concentration of the power on 12 individuals that will heighten the ideological differences and that it will come to some sort of ideological grid lock. he referred to the sequester mechanism. what do you think the odds would be if congress, doing what it did in the past, and just wave of the consequences as a get to that point. do you think they would lead the cuts go into play? >> nobody knows what they would do. i think they're caught in a genuine bind now. one reason i am engaged in these things is because you see us regret to say this right reject -- pc s -- let me say this right --