right now one-third of the united states is overweight, one-third so piece. obese. obesity is leading the epidemic of diabetes. right now 10% of the cost of health care in the united states is secondary to obesity, and the projections are in the next ten years that that will go to 20%. so we will not control the cost of health care in the united states unless we control the pandemic of obesity. so again, we figured that we needed to begin to address this. so we started out with food. we took the trans fats out of all the food we serve in the hospital. we made 40 changes in the cafeteriases of the food that we served. we took the candy bars out of vending machines, the sugar drinks out of the vending machines, and then we turned to exercise. we gave our employees free curves, free weight watchers, free yoga, free access to our gyms, and over the last two years we've lost 330,000 pounds. [laughter] it's a start. [laughter] but, so these, i think, represent an effort that you can also take out into the country, and we need to begin to address these. let me just for a mo

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to coopera

and settled in the united states, at united states children and citizen wife. as a whole we want to address this issue. >> host: palm beach, florida. >> caller: thank you. very hard work. i want to comment on the integration of the u.s. army with the mexican army and heading towards north american union and something that might be dangerous for our health and safety laws friday while enforcement perspective. >> host: do you see a lack of sovereignty? >> guest: that won't happen. very simple, mexico is a sovereign nation. they are proud to be a sovereign nation. we are sovereign nation in the united states. we all need to cooperate as neighboring countries for the security. not just of our region but the security of the entire world. we work closely together. i want to say i am proud of the service, work very much on our behalf to protect our country and i will tell you one thing about immigration as well. i had the pleasure of naturalizing many immigrants who serve in our armed forces and became united states citizens. we deal with immigration, it is a huge comp

in the united states when people come to the united states they become us. i'm an italian descent, whether you are jewish-american or hispanic-american you become americans and maybe the first generation is whatever the home mother country was but by the second generation the kids are in the mall and have the earphones in and are normal american kids. we integrate them into our society. europe has failed to do that and i think that then presents a very different threat. i think what you'll see politically as the europeans go to the polls is that a voting block they cannot ignore and the worry is that as europe faces economic crisis, the margins of victory are ever, ever closer in any election that they cannot ignore that voting block. and if that voting block is radicalized then i think it becomes a serious and major problem for europe. >> as in t.t. mcfarland as in ambassador ware as in many of the women in public service or private life in colorado today and across the country, conservative women, women who love freedom, women who know what's at stake. in

the wealth from commodities is being diversified in industrialised nation is taking place for the united states it should be hands off except to support a negotiated settlements internally and to give assistance to the united nations high commission for refugees and for to unicef to rehabilitate people in war torn areas peter if i can go to you one of the concerns i have with his whole idea is that you know i said earlier to get africans the africans what i meant by that i should've been more clear is that you you have basically lies in the american allies in the region and on the continent and you get them to do. things for you so americans don't have to die americans don't like it when soldiers die but once other other people soldiers die they don't really care about it that's what i'm getting at using that is that an alliance on the continent to use to to go after american interests protect american interests certainly and part of that i grew with you peter on that and part of that however cars building up their capacity training them and although i know why friends here are skeptical in fac

the growth of the latino community in the united states is the largest minority group in the united states. its voting power has been increasing tremendously and i do think that looking at south of the border there are opportunities, positive opportunities that benefit this country by a closer alliance and closer relationship. as an example, i don't think americans truly understand the significant changes that have occurred both domestically and internationally south of the border that would benefit paying more attention. as an example, the evolution and the strengthening of democracy in certain important large countries in south america and central america mexico, colombia, brazil. you know, we have cemented the space ideals of a space form of government, and coupled with that has been the growth of its economy and in fact in certain countries, you know, mexico and brazil as an example a naturally their growth has been greater than the united states. welcome here in the united states the growth of the latino community has also been quite impressive and latinos are beginning to take more o

with the other secretaries of state before her as well as presidents of both political parties who have urged succession. that joining the law of the sea is truly in the best interest of the united states. the u.s. relies on over 60% of all the energy we consume. recent projections by our own department of energy in the obama administration shows that 30 years from now, 57% of all the energy we consume in the united states will continue to be oil and natural gas. other projections show that the demand for world global energy led by oil and energy 20 to 30 years. energy is a very serious issue particularly to our global economy. companies spend billions of dollars annually looking for and producing oil and natural gas around the world to give you some insight from 2009 to 2011, the industry spent over $700 billion just in the united states drilling and exploring for additional opportunities. just last week at the lee sale conducted in the gulf of mexico, the u.s. oil and gas industry paid $1.7 billion in bonus bids to the federal government to secure rights to develop those resources in the gulf of mexico. preliminary studies estimate that the u.s. extended continental shelf as a

has fallen by fifty percent and at the same time we've nearly doubled the number of guns in the united states the problem with the these mass killings these psychopaths who go on a rampage is that unfortunately the united states has drastically cut its mental health spending so a lot of people who forty or fifty years ago would have been in mental institutions getting treatment are now out on the streets and some of them are committing homicides one at a time and some of them creates insatiable homicides that attract a lot of international attention ok marc you wanted to add i do because obviously we need more mental health treatment and i'm all for that but we're never going to stop a small percentage of people from being crazy that's true in the united states that you in every country on earth there's a small percentage of people who are mentally ill who have a screw loose who don't know right from wrong this guy apparently thought he was in a batman movie so the answer is not stop all the craziness worldwide the answer is to prevent these people from getting these very dangerous weapons an

, pardoning the soviet union united states 30, 35 years ago where people worried about blowingeach other up in the relationship between china with all the problems you describe on the united states today, wouldn't you be very caught things are as they are quick >> that's a great question. that's a great question and i think the there is somewhat more complicated than the implication that the yen. the u.s. soviet union was very steady-state with an enormously hairy fat tailed. enormously speaking we weren't impacted negatively on day-to-day basis. there was very look into linkage between two countries. and yet, there is this possibility with one and three that we could've had thermonuclear war. if that's really true of those one and three, then my god how much worse could it be. the entire soviet period was not that much of the soviet period was much more state do not. it's a very normalized distribution, but she hides this fact tale. but the u.s. and china, makes pretty marginal. the baseline is going to become much more problematic. again i think cybersecurity. adding industri

right now, 1/3 of the united states is overweight. 1/3 is obese. esity is leading the epidemic of diabetes. right now, 10% of the cost of health care in the united states is secondary to obesity. the projections are, in the next 10 years, that will go to 20%. we will not control the cost of health care in the united states unless we control the pandemic of obesity. so, again, we figured that we needed to begin to address this. we started out with food. we took the trans fats out of all of the foods we served in the hospital's. we made 40 changes in the as of the food that we serve. we took a candy bars and sugary drinks out of the bending machines. we turned it -- we took the candy bars and sugary drinks out of the vending machines. we turned to exercise. we have lost three and a 30,000 pounds. -- we have lost 330,000 pounds. it is a start. this represents an effort that you can take out into the country. we need to begin to address these. let me just for a moment tell you a story. i think he will understand the reason for this story. 2 1/2 years ag

this is an important anniversary for the united states, the united kingdom and canada.lly my friends governor o'malley and mayor rawlins blake for organizing this commemoration. in many ways it helped to define our young nation and gave americans a sense of unity and independence. it made an icon of the flag we fly and gave us the national anthem we sing. enduring symbols of our democracy. the end of the war laid the foundation for the growing relationship between the united states, the united kingdom and canada. bonds we now celebrate as the str strongest of allies and closest of friends. as our three nations mark this milestone, i'm confident our alliance will abe a force for good and together we will leave this world a better, safer place for generations to come. >> now the secretary of the united states navy, ray mapis. >> governor o'malley, senator, the entire maryland congressional delegation, madam mayor, to the ambassadors from the united kingdom and canada. i have two observances for you. one is that i had the privilege of participating in the normandy 68th ann

i think israel and the united states have a relationship that if the united states abandons israel, and europe certainly did after the 1973 war, i think that tears at the soul of america. there's one country in the middle east that has stood by us, is a thrive democracy, a group of people that have gone to the desert and turned it green, is israel. we owe them a relationship where we stand by them. not where we stand by them at the expense of all else, but we should -- the survival of the state of israel [ inaudible ]. period. now, what happens if israel is looking at the clock and i think netanyahu probably wakes up every morning and there are three alarm clocks next to the bed. one says how much time does israel have before iran develops nuclear weapons. the second clock is how much time does israel have to stop iran, israel/the united states to stop iran, either with an attack, either with sanctions that we've just instituted, or with cyberattacks. the third clock is the american election because just think of whether the swing states likely to be in the election, florida, and if the

the united states declared war on great britain on june 18, 1812, and hostilities continued into the treaty of gent was ral ratified in 1815. it brings together representatives of the united states, great britain and canada who also celebrate the 200 years of peace that followed the war. this event is ban hour. p . >>> well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm bob schieffer, and i'll be your moderator today for the special ceremony to mark the beginning of the war of 1812 bicentennial, from enemies to allies, 200 years of peace. if i could add a personal note, i was here in this very place at the buy centennial celebration in 1976, and it was a wonderful night. i was a white house correspondent in those days, and president ford had come up for the occasion. it was the big flag up and the spotlights were on it and they -- you know, the fireworks were going off in the background, and everybody was having a good time. i looked off, and in the crowd i saw a man holding up a little dog. i thought he was holding up the dog to show it to his friends, but then i realized he was holding th

the moral standing of the united states major setback of credibility of the united states. the united states of america pretending, acting the leader of the free world and yet and expanded in torture and abroad. the economic costs of the 9/11 war between three to $5 trillion. three to $5 trillion. >> it's one of those members i've been using and hearing and writing this for so long and it's one of those numbers that is so large it is almost impossible to comprehend. what is a trillion? i can't quite imagine a million. >> guest: think about when barack obama came and said 700 million, $700 billion in order to basically reconstct the american economy, think of the cry. you are spending $700 billion. we don't have $700 billion. we dn't even have $3 trillion we have spent. most of the money was borrowed not to mention just about economic cost is also about the opportunity cost. while the united states was chasing the jihadis in afghanistan and pakistan the war was going on so barack obama inherited the legacy of the economic decline and also the rise of the geostrategic power ch

so that's the one example in the book where the actions the united states takes really do impact the actions of other countries by the united states spending far more on military and being at least viewing itself as more of armed to protect many of these countries it ends up letting those other countries spend less and that's exactly what you see in the dynamics. in what areas does the us find itself in a leading position among other wealthy nations there are a few areas where we excel we have some of the best colleges in the world so that tertiary education our graduate schools are outstanding some of the strongest in the world our hospitals our technology overall is world class and overall those types of advantages are would draws the best talent in the world here students come here in order to learn and hopefully we can keep the opportunities for them not only to arrive here but for them to stay our technology that allows us to innovate and create some great companies that still exist and are entrepreneurship the government rules that allow us to create new companies and to pa

it is about audiences in britain or the united states. we have this extraordinary privilege of the license fee and other funding that enables the bbc to be a strong, robust journalistic organization. that is what we do. we tried to get -- we

in the united states the issue of whether or not democrats are considered strong on national defense and security is one of the issues that's always played well for republicans and so showing this macho image and the image of. going to stand up to and kill these terrorists whoever we call terrorists is. it was i think it was being it was leaked in order to make him appear stronger not. weaker and and frankly. you know there's there's a lot of. in relate or in opposition to invading a country you know doing as targeted ok you're saying you're saying this is a security policy i'm not cheap chris if i go to you in london a lot of the information that was leaked i guess was leaked to you guys because a reading of your work is quite fascinating is this you know why if they you know spoonfeeding the media everyone smile they'll say something of course is the most secret program in america but it is same time that kind of want to brag about it and from your research in your writing it looks like they're quite proud of what they're doing. there's very little that secret apparently the war in

gross income and latin america has outpaced the united states. the latino community is now a major demographic factor in the united states. we want to give a look at how latinos look at foreign affairs and what value add that we bring to the debate. >> to emphasize this initial mss the latino perspective is critical. we think given the perspective of where there has been so much migration and transnational traffic of people that have come back and forth is critical. my experience has been a are running large companies around a world and as i think about the united states and what are the drivers of success and with the story here that is really important to every american, it's about our trade and economic flows between us and across the americas. just to give you a few quick data points -- i think let trade, i think about datapoint to my think but they apply, as to what jobs created in the u.s.. when the we think about an exciting story, most of us have a picture -- you will see a story today about china. you will see a story about india. one of

by the united states. over the last, turkey has cut back on oil imports from iran, in i think may, it was down to it was down from -- 270 barrels per day in may and in june -- no, in april, and then in may, it went down 180 barrels. there was a significant decline. this is because of turkey faces real pressure. okay. i've got less than that. on the united states on sanctions and turkey would be a price. turkey is talking to saudi arabia some of the caucus states about finding alternative sources of oil. you see this tension brewing between the two because of the failure on nuclear talk to make success and iran's stubbornness to find a solution. and the syria has complicated as a third in the triangle of relations. a revolutionary guard commander charged earlier this month that tour key was part of a regional alliance with saudi arabia and -- taking orders from the united states and israel in a plan or grand design to oust the syrian leadership. a prominent revolutionary guard leader called turkey a strategi

that is how he got to the united states. it was only when he got here that he came up with the idea, you know that statue are was going to build in egypt, it really needs to be in new york harbor. >> i love hearing about his journey. in a way, it had even more richness then toqueville's journey. he went from east and west, and he is really seeing america as something much more progressive and done what france have to offer a this time that he came to see this as the only possible true home of the statue. i love his account. i read that the rocky mountains were terrifying because he had never seen anything like that before. >> there was a group of people, they loved america, but it was a theoretical thing. they had never set foot in the united states, and what they knew they read in books, and in some newspapers. when he came here for the first time, he figured out immediately the statue was going to go up. he found the island where he was going to put it. he did not have any takers. no one was interested in this. here was a g

the united states and russia are the two great thermonuclear powers in the world russia remains the preeminent strategic partner in the eurasian landmass the united states and russia have an enormous amount of strategic interests and concerns in common they are equally threatened on the lawn by islamist fundamentalism they both face major drug epidemics crime epidemics within their own countries the need for security and law and order cooperation between the united states and russia is absolutely preeminent in the world but that is not going to happen when relations between the two great super powers deteriorate over issues like this this is grandstanding and demagoguery in the senate of the worst carried and what's particularly striking to me on this is that this isn't coming from the house of representatives it's coming from the senate and the senate is supposed to take the long term and be the more thoughtful reflective legislative chamber in the u.s. constitutional system. well we have a plenty more details on the case of. including what led to his arrest on the investigation into his deat

i hope the united states -- fortunate they have not been ersolutions.new and andsed in the united states people talk about the u.s. becoming energy independent going back to the environmental concerns there the challenge to thatype of the yseen done. the toxins, there will be a reieve for energy prices. tary spending. rn $700 billion around the world. largest amount of money -- japan and china a very distt nd of ppolsn thoo is because so many of the wars around the world, even if the united states diverted a fraction of military spending into more resours innovation not onl would youave e held but a lot of resources wouldn't have a reason to fight because we find a lot of solutionso desalatnan era osc in solving these problems. hy am going to stop wii amoing s e riio t environment is a serious economic and social development. my view is this is basically saying commodity prices are going up. we have a long way before weet to pla wheheld i fod hisndhat wos . i hope that you take away from this the urgency ofhese issues and so many wars arnd the world and telgee unfostwa suggest we should

there she had the opportunity to hear the opinions of vietnamese leaders about how the united states should face china over the issue. the united states says it wants maritime disputes settled peacefully through diplomatic means but at the same time, it is stipg its ability to respond to the expanded military activities of china. one priority is intensifying surveillance of chinese military vessels. as such, the u.s. navy has decided to employ its most advanced unmanned surveillance aircraft to the region. still under development, the nq4c triton will be based in guam and should be fully operational by the second half of 2015. the triton flies at an altitude of 20 kilometers, much higher than most conventional aircraft. it can collect intelligence across vast areas and will be able to closely monitor the movement of chinese military vessels. >> the reality of it is increased attention to the asia-pacific and increased attention to the rise of china. there are many ways to accomplish that. one way is to shift combat forces obviously. another way, obviously, we're talking about today is

i was just curious when in 1812 they said in the earlier segment they said that the united states was broke, and i was wondering if the professor could explain why or how did the united states get revenue at that time of -- you know, around 1812, if there was taxes or how we got revenue and the other comment -- and the only other comment i have is it's no wonder the indian nations were upset with the united states or the white people with how we treated them. that's my comment and i'll hang up and listen. thank you. >> okay, jeff. >> thank you very much. yea, there were no federal taxes at that point and so most revenues were generated through tariff checks and the united states did not have a large military at the beginning of the war of 1812. in fact, some of the stories think that when the u.s. declared war it was more or less a bluff that they would declare war and the british would think we have our hands full with napoleon because they're fighting on the continent of europe so some historians think that people in the united states thought they could just declare war and the brit

accounts take a look at this you can see the blue portion there on the bottom that is money from the united states that flowed into offshore accounts four hundred fifty nine billion dollars in two thousand and two all the way up to seven hundred twenty six billion by april of last year joining me now from ny phil florida is karl denninger proprietor of the market ticker hey there carl i have read country of course is guilty here but we're in the u.s. so let's talk about the enormous wealth being made by u.s. business people and then trickling down but out what do you make of this i think there's a little bit of a misnomer that goes with us or after all this is after tax income so taxes have already been collected on this money but there is an argument here to be made that we have a system where we have incentivized people to be unproductive and bill clinton fact try to do quite a bit to change this and was rather successful in doing so and now a lot of people will look at that and say well you know you have to be president when there was a huge internet boom and that had a lot to do with it really

states and the laws of the united statesamerica. against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and allegiance, that i will bear arms on behalf of the united states when required by the law. the dye will perform noncombata services -- that i will perform noncombatant service is in the armed forces of the united states when required by law. the dial performs work of national importance -- that i will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law. that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. so help me god. congratulations. [applause] please be seated. congratulations to our newest -- i am proud to call you my fellow citizens. there is no fluke more fitting day -- there is no more fitting day to do this than a fourth of july when we celebrate the to under 36 anniversary of our declaration of independence -- 236 anniversary of our declaration of independence. these new citizens are members of the armed forces. all the 25

so it's really an invasion and you know a military campaign against syria being conducted by the united states through proxies and until that stops either we risk widening the war if russia and china are going to stand up to the united states or you know syria being. conquered essentially in the same way that libya was. washington support for syrian rebels is confusing says the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament. but. i don't quite understand how the us can support the armed opposition because these are the same kind of people who blow up american soldiers in afghanistan and iraq the same kind of people who kill nato troops in afghanistan in the same country they're considered enemies of the united state while here they're treated as allies. i can catch the full interview with i say pushed off in about twenty minutes time here on r t. saudi arabia may be one of the outspoken critics of syria over what it calls the repression of the people but it seems to be using similar tactics at home two people were killed one police opened fire an anti regime fo

and the united states. notably on may 1, president -- then-president geithner briefed the president's working group which consisted of the treasury, the fed, the fdic and the s.e.c. and other participants. the new york fed briefed the treasury separately on may 6. the p.w.g. meeting provided more information to the various staffs of the vary yes, sir agencies and the new york fed also communicated with the f.s.a. and the bank of england in the united kingdom. so there was active effort to report to all the relevant policymakers and enforcement agencies the information that had been received. the second step that the federal reserve bank in new york took was to develop recommendations to address the structural problems with libor that i mentioned before. the new york fed released a memorandum, a list of suggested changes that they submitted to the bank of england on june 1 and following up earlier discussions with the bank of england. there were also communications with the british bankers association which i

are into a two thousand and eleven study by a lie ons the united states has over forty one trillion dollars in combined wealth second is japan with far less than half the wealth of the united states and just over fourteen trillion dollars so we're number one right well not exactly our nations combined wealth is astronomically high but that's only because there are a heck of a lot of billionaires living here in fact about a third of the world's billionaires live right here in the united states of america that's four hundred twelve billionaires who live in america and second on the list is china with only one hundred fifteen billionaires. so our total wealth is inflated by all the billionaires who live here if you want to true measure of how wealthy the united states actually is and you have to look at median wealth or how much americans in the middle are making under that criteria the united states doesn't even crack the top ten in the world according to a report by credit suisse fifteen o.e.c.d. nations have a higher median wealth than the united states that includes nations like australia

we've been given the privilege of serving the people of our state and swearing an oath to the constitution of the united states so that we can help lead this country. and so weedlike to go to work. weedlike to go to work. and what does the senate do in the senate brings bills you were through committee. it puts bills on the floor. then as the late-senator byrd used to say, almost any amendment comes to the floor and we debate it and we vote on it and we either pass the bill or we don't pass the bill. that's what the senate does. and we on our side have been saying to the majority leader, mr. majority leader, let us offer our amendments. don't silence the voices of the people in our states that we represent. and he has been allowing that more to happen. of course he has the procedural ability to stop that. and the senator from michigan said, let's try just having relevant amendments. and so we said, okay, let's just try that. and so we began to make some progress. there was a dispute over district judges. we resolved that and we've been confirming them. the postal service bill, the farm bill, the f.d.a.

in truth when he came to the united states it was very clear. that his early experience on a farm and traveling around iowa and other parts of the united states had an enormous impression on him. and i think during many hours of discussion, he made clear that despite the challenges, he too, like chinese leaders who have come before him, he too wants a good solid substantial relationship between the united states and china. >> do you have any concerns that -- that is he going to be a leader who is going to pick up the phone, which has been a concern that we've had that when there's a small crisis it sometimes becomes difficult to reach chinese officials. >> it's a really good question and you know i will say and again it's hard at my level to interact with the guys and hard to kind of get a sense. but unlike hu and wen who were often -- they were very formal individuals. i was struck that chi would often stay at dinner and have a beer after. would kind of interact, was at least in certain settings more informal. we'll see how that plays out over t

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

i would imagine the united states olympic committee let the outfits be made wherever the manufacturer as a hypocrite. he should say what? you know in the past, we haven't cared so much. but now we do care because we see how many job losses have occurred in the united states in the textile industry. from this point forward, yes. they should be made in the united states. it would be easy for him. then he wouldn't be called a hip hypocrite. virginia we will take your call on the other side of this break when this continues and my rant continues about ralph lauren. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> radio meets television the bill press show now on current tv. >>only on current tv. rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. now in minis. dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. when a carpet is clean and fresh, it's irresistible. experience this in your home with resolve deep clean powder. its moist powder penetrates deep, removing three times more dirt than vacuuming alone wh

to all of this was a challenge to the united states. the united states under the past administrations of jefferson and madison, for 10 years, respond with milder, with diplomatic protest and even the self-defeating measure of an embargo on our own trade, which really did not bring the europeans to their knees until they destroyed much of our own shipping. but finally, we reached a point where over 900 u.s. flagships had been seized by britain and france. the massive ministration finally declared war on britain, and really at that point serve notice on the entire world that there were some insults that this country would not swallow, and some light in which it could not be pushed without putting but i think that was a real entry of the united states onto the world stage as a nation which had to be respected by other nations, which would defend its rights. >> so you may remember some of that from your own reading of history, from your own schoolbooks. most of those events occurred on the east coast, not in the former northwest territory. s

it's the who governs in the united states? is it the sovereign people or is it a political elite in washington that is completely independent of the voters ability to control the quantity of money in circulation? >> over here. >> why were we taken off the gold standard in 1971? >> well, i suppose someone would say it wasn't a true gold standard. anyone? >> you just said it. sir, the move off the gold standard had been in the works for a while. the united states had begun to run deficits in its international payments late in the 1950s and into the '60s. then the dollar was defined as a weight of gold of 1/35 of an ounce of gold, the definition of a dollar. and year by year, foreign central banks, which alone could exercise that right to redeem began to redeem. and for a full ten years before the united states suspended the gold convertibility of the dollar, before it went on the pure paper system for that full ten years, the government was -- was continuously -- it was an exercise in continuous improvisation to try to fend off t

and not from the united states. so it is a trickle of people who leave the united states for health care outside. i think it is almost negligible economic influence on health care costs in the united states. >> did the people who utilize your 2424 hour call service have to have insurance? >> no. >> aren't there other factors been smoking and obesity that cause ill health like chemical, air and water quality, and what are you doing about these? [laughter] >> you guys are mean. there is no question that there are multiple other things that affect health care, but those are, those are the three really big ones. the thing that concerns me, quite frankly, is the epidemic of autism. autism, frankly, was something that was not seen when most of us were kids. and now it's one in 88 diapers. the applications for that both for society and for the economics are stunning. at the other end of life, the other thing that concerns us is alzheimer's disease. if you get to be 80 years old, the chance of having alzheimer's is 25%. the