the carbon growth in cloyne is unsustainable and so they are pushing hard to get 15% of their energy renewable, a push hard to close down their least efficient coal plants and are constructing the most efficient ones. they're pushing hard on energy efficiency. if you look at the things china is doing in the last year it's incredibly impressive. why are they doing this? two reasons. climate change is going to be bad for china and the rest of the world. even number one, if this they say as an economic opportunity for china. there's an official tally of high technology manufacturing from china. aerospace, pharmaceuticals, electronic. china has passed europe and the united states in leading high technology manufacturing from the last couple of years. they see a transition to a green energy economy, developing solar, wind, as something where they want to be the world leader. so they're pushing because they see an credible economic opportunity. now, this is where china is going. this is where a lot of european countries have gone in the past. china is being very aggressive about it. they a

unsustainable entitlement program. well, it should have done all those things. that's what we intended to do when we started out. instead, this bill threatens the economic recovery. it's a half a trillion dollars in new taxes, hurting small business and destroying job creation. it calls for an even bigger and more unsustainable federal budget. it adds to that burden with a massive government-run health plan. it makes health care more unaffordable and lower quality. i know some people believe that we should get on to the bill and try to fix it by amendment. but this 2,000-page bill has many more problems than can being fixed by amendment on the senate floor. if you really want to improve it, it should be stopped right now and get back together where we were at one time. democratic leaders and the white house have put together one extreme health care plan after another. after the bailouts of wall street and detroit, a stimulus bill that led to the highest unemployment in 26 years and the fed shoveling money out the door

at an unprecedented and probably unsustainable number. it tells you something about where the american business world is. we will see a continuation of this as we go forward. because virtually -- in a sense, the growth of the economy is primarily going to be keeping costs under control. the opportunities for hiring or rehiring is the lowest it has been in the last 30 or 50 years. the attitude has changed, and it has changed for consumers. we were on a consumer binge that was sustained by borrowing. that is no longer sustainable. the attitude of the consumer has changed. we will see -- i don't see how we will be able to sustain -- we will have to do it. as we were implying, there is tremendous downward pressure on the ability of the american economy to grow. i do not think that we're going to be in a position -- we have no choice about that -- debt. if you have too much credit card debt, or a disproportionate low in relation to the value of your home, if you lose your job, you still have to pay your debts. so we will be in the same positio

totally unsustainable. and very difficult to do anything about it because large amounts of money are involved. this is a big trade. and as you know, once money is involved in something, it gets harder and progressively harder to control. particularly when in this case there are quite high politicians involved. and we all know about this. that's not just africa. is everywhere. a vested interest, the pressure that is put upon people in power by companies by corporations, by those making money. so the plight of the chimpanzee is just one example of what's happening to animals species around the world. and not surprising that so many people seem to have given up hope. not surprising that so many people ask me, jane, you can really have hope, not after you've seen what you've seen. and that's why i wrote this recent book, that congressman paul is was just mentioning. "hope for animals and their world: how endangered species are being rescued from the brink." and the idea for this book has been with before very l

unsustainable entitlement program.all those things. that's what we intended to do when we started out. instead, this bill threatens the economic recovery. it's a half a trillion dollars in new taxes, hurting small business and destroying job creation. it calls for an even bigger and more unsustainable federal budget. it adds to that burden with a massive government-run health plan. it makes health care more unaffordable and lower quality. i know some people believe that we should get on to the bill and try to fix it by amendment. but this 2,000-page bill has many more problems than can being fixed by amendment on the senate floor. if you really want to improve it, it should be stopped right now and get back together where we were at one time. democratic leaders and the white house have put together one extreme health care plan after another. after the bailouts of wall street and detroit, a stimulus bill that led to the highest unemployment in 26 years and the fed shoveling money out the door without any accountability,

at an unprecedented and probably unsustainable number. it tells you something about where the american business world is. we will see a continuation of this as we go forward. because virtually -- in a sense, the growth of the economy is primarily going to be keeping costs under control. the opportunities for hiring or rehiring is the lowest it has been in the last 30 or 50 years. the attitude has changed, and it has changed for consumers. we were on a consumer binge that was sustained by borrowing. that is no longer sustainable. the attitude of the consumer has changed. we will see -- i don't see how we will be able to sustain -- we will have to do it. as we were implying, there is tremendous downward pressure on the ability of the american economy to grow. i do not think that we're going to be in a position -- we have no choice about that -- debt. if you have too much credit card debt, or a disproportionate low in relation to the value of your home, if you lose your job, you still have to pay your debts. so we will be in the same positio

those are unsustainable numbers. yet, we're proposing a bill here on the floor, a bill is being proposed here on the floor that is going to expand the size of government by $2.5 trillion. it is alleged it's paid for. we're going to get into discussion of that in some depth because i think that is an equally cynical number of bait and switch. i just wanted to clear the air as to the real cost of this bill because i found it uniquely cynical that it would be represented that this bill costs $890 billion, or whatever the number was. and it does call into issue the credibility of the rest of the numbers that are being thrown out by the other side of the aisle when they use that number, which is a five-year number that they claim covers a ten-year cost when they don't do anything in the first five years of that. i appreciate the indulgence of the senator from missouri. i understand he wishes to speak. then we'll go to the senator from alabama, and then the senator from south dakota, and then we'll have a little discussi

i think he'll find 10,000 and train the army because he's politically unsustainable with his base, if he puts in 43,000 troops and prosecutes afghanistan during a water with afghanistan as president, i think he'll have a democrat primary and that we'll have a substantial split mountain democrat party, if that's what he does. and i would argue this -- for our party, and the tensions between our kind of economic votes and our religious conservatives, the fact that the energy in republican party is about spending and deficit, if we're so inept we can't take these people and make them part of a new coalition, they we oughting to nothinged. the -- this are 24% of the people in this country who say they would likely vote for a third party and they're not strong republicans or democrats. we have 13% of the country who dislike both political parties and guess what they share in common? 90% said hes government. if we can't take a radicalized section of our country and say, by the way, there's a difference between us and the democrats, and who just bought general motors and chrysler and spent t

fundamental disconnect will have to be addressed in some way if the federal budget is in place on an unsustainable course. thank you, i will stop there. [applause] >> doug has graciously agreed to answer questions. we have a microphone in the middle of the floor. if you come down and state your name and where you come from, he is open to questions. you have given us a great foundation, highlighting the challenges we face. we have had to think in different ways about a lot of programs and responsive. i was wondering if you could address some of the more challenging aspects that we face, some challenges we face and how you have thought of those problems. >> there are many people in romom. i have been at cbo for 10 months now. it has been an exciting 10 months. [laughter] there are a few broad challenges. one issue we face is that policy makers are considering policies that are outside of recent experience in their scope and the problems they are tackling. as work on health care reform, climate policy, financial market intervention, we are trying to analyze policies that we do not have historical ref

the trajectory clearly is absolutely unsustainable. we need to pass health care reform because premium costs for middle-class americans are rising at an astronomical rate. take my home state of delaware, for example. in 2000 the average premium for family health coverage in delaware was just over $7,500. in 2008, that number had jumped to $14,900, almost doubling in just eight years. and if we do nothing and allow the current health care system to continue, the same premium for family coverage is expected to reach $29,000 in 2016, another doubling of the price. think about it. every eight years our premiums doubling in size. that is simply unaffordable. we need to pass health care reform because failure to do so will drive more and more americans into bankruptcy. today bankruptcies involve medical bills that account for more than 60% of u.s. personal bankruptcies, a rate one and a half times that of just six years ago. and keep in mind -- keep in mind -- 75% of the families entering bankruptcy because of health care costs actually have

in favor of this bill is a vote in favor of the spending binge that's leading to a massive and unsustainablekle our chn to a future they can't afford. that's what tonight's vote is all about. if it wasn't, none of us would be here on a saturday night with the nation watching and waiting to see what we do here. they're watching because they know that none of this -- none of this is inevitable. all it takes is one vote, just one. the simple math is this, if there were one democrat, just one of our friends on the other side of the aisle -- just one who would say no tonight, none of this would happen. the voices of the american people would be heard. we've seen all the surveys. we know how they feel. if just one democrat were to say no tonight, he'd be saying no to the premium increases, no to the tax cuts, no to the medicare cuts. just one on the other side of the aisle. and then we could start over with a commonsense step-by-step approach to fix the problem that got us here in the first place, and that was that health care costs too much. now, purchas mr. president, thed irony of this whole de

the united states from the time the republic was created in the next nine years and that is an unsustainable amount of borrowing especially when we are so heavily dependent on china to buy the debt. now, to get a full idea what i mean by america for sale you can see the image we put on the cover of the book which is the tad of america has a sales tag the little red and so you can tie it on to something to be sold with the bar code, and so i am seeing with the social security checks maybe we ought to and starting to print social security checks at the bottom paid to you courtesy the china. we couldn't pay the social security checks or the medicare or the medicaid unfunded liabilities. in fact maybe we ought to go a step further. maybe we ought to just owls worse the social security up ministration to china. since we are a outsourcing so many millions of jobs we can eliminate the middleman. china can do the administration social security cheaper, right? to get cheaper labor they can do this cheaper, and we don't have to pass the money for washington to send the checks to the social security re

at an unprecedented and probably unsustainable number. it tells you something about where the american business world is. we will see a continuation of this as we go forward. because virtually -- in a sense, the growth of the economy is primarily going to be keeping costs under control. the opportunities for hiring or rehiring is the lowest it has been in the last 30 or 50 years. the attitude has changed, and it has changed for consumers. we were on a consumer binge that was sustained by borrowing. that is no longer sustainable. the attitude of the consumer has changed. we will see -- i don't see how we will be able to sustain -- we will have to do it. as we were implying, there is tremendous downward pressure on the ability of the american economy to grow. i do not think that we're going to be in a position -- we have no choice about that -- debt. if you have too much credit card debt, or a disproportionate low in relation to the value of your home, if you lose your job, you still have to pay your debts. so we will be in the same positio

its finance something unsustainable. the hospital insurance trust fund which pays for hospital services will be insolvent in 2017. the physician payment formula which calls for medicare payments to doctors to be cut by more than 40% over the next ten years is fundamentally broken, and we know that, and we even had a vote on that in this chamber. we said they had to be paid for. let's see. $464 billion coming out of medicare. medicare is what's being affected by the doctors' payments. why wouldn't we use some of that? but it's a lot of money. it's a lot of money. but it's not as much money as we're taking out of medicare. unfortunately, the reid bill does nothing to fix these problems. instead, it cuts half a trillion dollars from medicare to create a brand-new entitlement program for the insured. this program -- for the uninsured. this program fails to address the real problems facing medicare. that's the physician formula. instead, it uses the same gimmick that congress has repeatedly used to fix this problem. it provid

i think he'll find 10,000 and train the army because he's politically unsustainable with his base, if he puts in 43,000 troops and prosecutes afghanistan during a water with afghanistan as president, i think he'll have a democrat primary and that we'll have a substantial split mountain democrat party, if that's what he does. and i would argue this -- for our party, and the tensions between our kind of economic votes and our religious conservatives, the fact that the energy in republican party is about spending and deficit, if we're so inept we can't take these people and make them part of a new coalition, they we oughting to nothinged. the -- this are 24% of the people in this country who say they would likely vote for a third party and they're not strong republicans or democrats. we have 13% of the country who dislike both political parties and guess what they share in common? 90% said hes government. if we can't take a radicalized section of our country and say, by the way, there's a difference between us and the democrats, and who just bought general motors and chrysler and spent t

at an unprecedented and probably unsustainable number. it tells you something about where the american business world is. we will see a continuation of this as we go forward. because virtually -- in a sense, the growth of the economy is primarily going to be keeping costs under control. the opportunities for hiring or rehiring is the lowest it has been in the last 30 or 50 years. the attitude has changed, and it has changed for consumers. we were on a consumer binge that was sustained by borrowing. that is no longer sustainable. the attitude of the consumer has changed. we will see -- i don't see how we will be able to sustain -- we will have to do it. as we were implying, there is tremendous downward pressure on the ability of the american economy to grow. i do not think that we're going to be in a position -- we have no choice about that -- debt. if you have too much credit card debt, or a disproportionate low in relation to the value of your home, if you lose your job, you still have to pay your debts. so we will be in the same positio

it simply throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system, with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. the danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude that we tried health reform and it did not work. but the real problem will be that we really did not try it. i would rather see us do nothing now, and have a better chance of trying again later and then doing it right. last greek, robert reich clinton's former secretary of labor, said that under the bills pending in congress, the cup is 90% empty. most of us will be stuck with little or no choice, dependent on private insurers who care only about the bottom line, who deny our claims, who charge us more and more for co-payments and deductibles, who bury us in forms, who do not take our calls. he said, i want every senator who is not in the pocket of the private insurers or big pharma to introduce and vote for an "ted kennedy medicare for all" amendment to whatever bill reid takes to the floor.

i think he'll find 10,000 and train the army because he's politically unsustainable with his base, if he puts in 43,000 troops and prosecutes afghanistan during a water with afghanistan as president, i think he'll have a democrat primary and that we'll have a substantial split mountain democrat party, if that's what he does. and i would argue this -- for our party, and the tensions between our kind of economic votes and our religious conservatives, the fact that the energy in republican party is about spending and deficit, if we're so inept we can't take these people and make them part of a new coalition, they we oughting to nothinged. the -- this are 24% of the people in this country who say they would likely vote for a third party and they're not strong republicans or democrats. we have 13% of the country who dislike both political parties and guess what they share in common? 90% said hes government. if we can't take a radicalized section of our country and say, by the way, there's a difference between us and the democrats, and who just bought general motors and chrysler and spent t

i think he'll find 10,000 and train the army because he's politically unsustainable with his base, if he puts in 43,000 troops and prosecutes afghanistan during a water with afghanistan as president, i think he'll have a democrat primary and that we'll have a substantial split mountain democrat party, if that's what he does. and i would argue this -- for our party, and the tensions between our kind of economic votes and our religious conservatives, the fact that the energy in republican party is about spending and deficit, if we're so inept we can't take these people and make them part of a new coalition, they we oughting to nothinged. the -- this are 24% of the people in this country who say they would likely vote for a third party and they're not strong republicans or democrats. we have 13% of the country who dislike both political parties and guess what they share in common? 90% said hes government. if we can't take a radicalized section of our country and say, by the way, there's a difference between us and the democrats, and who just bought general motors and chrysler and spent t

in favor of this bill is a vote in favor of the spending binge that is leading to a massive and unsustainable long-term debt that will shackle our children to a future they can't afford. that's what tonight's vote is all about. if it wasn't, none of us would be here on a saturday night with the nation watching and waiting to see what we do here. they're watching because they know that none of this, none of this is inevitable. all it takes is one vote, just one. the simple math is this. if there were one democrat, just one of our friends on the other side of the aisle, just one who would say no tonight, none of this would happen. the voices of the american people would be heard. we have seen all the surveys. we know how they feel. if just one democrat were to say no tonight, he would be saying no to the premium increases, no to the tax cuts, no to the medicare cuts, just one on the other side of the aisle. and then we could start over with a common sense step by step approach to fix the problem that got us here in the first place and that was that health care costs too much. now, mr. president

. >> yet societies currently using one of our most precious resources on the planet unsustainably.here limits to what our natural systems can provide in the strains are beginning to show. >> the water issue is starting to impact people right now. >> we are increasingly getting periods of drought in drought stress on plants all around the world. >> in australia the amount of water available for use is now 30% of what it was ten years ago. >> in california a lot of the farmers of simply not been able to get the water they need to grow the crops that historically they have grown. >> london for example has said to consider these felonization plans to cover peaks. planted shutting down power plants during the hot summers. >> there are clear and visible signs of stress now but what will the picture look like in 20 years if we do not take concerted action? >> there will be something like 40% gap between supply and demand on a global scale by 2030. >> nobody says alben the water challenge will be easy but what are the major barriers the head? how will be overcome them to unlock new and exi

. >> society is, using one of our most precious resources on the planet unsustainably.t our natural system can provide and strains are beginning to show. >> the water issue is starting to impact. >> we are increasingly getting periods of drought, drought stress on plants all around the world. >> in australia the amount of water available for use as now 30 percent of what it was 10 years ago. >> in california a lot of the farmers have simply not been able to get the water they need to grow the crops that have historically been grown. >> london has had to consider a plan to cover peaks. >> atlanta is shutting down power plants during hot summer. >> there are signs of stress now, but will will it look like in 20 years if we did not take concerted action? >> it will be something like a 40% gap between supply and demand on a global scale by 2030. >> nobody says challenging the water problems will be easy but what are the major barriers ahead? how will we overcome them to unlock new and existing solutions? >> the challenge of protecting water resources and using them responsi

it simply throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. the danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude we've tried health reform and it didn't work. but the real problem will be that we've really didn't try. i would rather see us do nothing now and have a better chance of trying and again later and then doing it right. that was dr. marcia angell. last week robert reich, clinton former secretary said the cut is 90% empty. most of us are stuck with little or no choice dependent on private insurers who care only about the bottom line would deny the claims, who charge more and more for co-payments and be we only need a courageous view in the house and senate. collier congressmen and senators to switch -- call your congressman and senator. 2022243121. tell them the democratic bill is a bailout. vote against the 2000 page obama bill. start from scratch. healthcare is a human rights. join with us in

dollars every year in order to get unemployment down, or is in fact the keynesian concept simply unsustainablehe government jobs are like feeding somebody the fish for a day, spend the 3.5 trillion, keep people on the government pay over, hanging above blue rooms waiting for something to do and then not eliminating any efficiencies and at the end of the year the 3.5 trillion spent and you have to spend the next year if you to keep the people of in planet. isn't that true, dr. irons? >> i think you're mixing apples and oranges to a great extent. >> okay, dr. armey i think you know about apples and oranges. >> you have to go back to my initial observation. a very large portion of the existing expenditure and an employment structure of the current federal government is redundant. so the fact of the matter or even for that matter counter productive. if you add to that you add to the burden. >> so more rocks in a knapsack if somebody is not going to get any better. let me ask about the hangover. dr. armey, if we were to spend 3.5 additional trillion dollars that those who say more government would

it simply throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. the danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude we've tried health reform and it didn't work. but the real problem will be that we've really didn't try. i would rather see us do nothing now and have a better chance of trying and again later and then doing it right. that was dr. marcia angell. last week robert reich, clinton former secretary said the cut is 90% empty. most of us are stuck with little or no choice dependent on private insurers who care only about the bottom line would deny the claims, who charge more and more for co-payments and deductibles, who serious and forms, who want to cover calls, he said. and then he went on with this. i want every senator not in the pocket of the private insurers and big pharma to vote for a ted kennedy amendment to whatever bill taken to the florida. that was reich. we only need a courageous few i

largely because it costs current account deficits at least that are unsustainable.but right now we are not in the face of too much simultaneous stimulus because the country conditions are quite different. for example, the australians are in the midst of pulling back. and the europeans have seen the economy improving so europeans are not part of the stimulus and the obama administration, given what that is projected for the healthcare reform, for it to talk about further stimulus i think it's a very difficult task to do politically. the chance for simultaneous fiscal stimulus has come and gone. >> probably now the most important thing is coordinating our exit from stimulus to make sure that we don't game each other to try to maximize our own interest there. there's a question toward the back. the gentleman with the blue shirt. go ahead. you with the glasses and mustache. yep. yeah. >> i'm with american university. just on the possibility for reform and what the parties are able to achieve in china. the parties are increasingly concerned for some time is about corrupt

it simply throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. the danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude we've tried health reform and it didn't work. but the real problem will be that we've really didn't try. i would rather see us do nothing now and have a better chance of trying and again later and then doing it right. that was dr. marcia angell. last week robert reich, clinton former secretary said the cut is 90% empty. most of us are stuck with little or no choice dependent on private insurers who care only about the bottom line would deny the claims, who charge more and more for co-payments and deductibles, who serious and forms, who want to cover calls, he said. and then he went on with this. i want every senator not in the pocket of the private insurers and big pharma to vote for a ted kennedy amendment to whatever bill taken to the florida. that was reich. we only need a courageous few i

it is unrealistic, unsustainable and not for the best interest of all young people. i put forward that these young people today do not abolish fees, but lower the fees to what they are actually worth. hell, yes. that is fair. [applause] >> thank you for that excellent speech as well. can i see somebody on the other side of the chamber who wishes to speak. >> yes, the gentleman there. >> i am james greene. i will tell you if you think this -- let me tell you this. if you are from a well off background, you are more likely to go to university. that is unjust. we have to change this system. after you go to university, you are paid a certain amount of wages for a certain amount of time. we have to get away from the whole idea that if you go to university, you have tens of thousands of pounds in debt. that is outrageous. we are encouraged to not get into debt and yet this is what the government is encouraging. that is wrong. we need to scrap these. [applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. in america, you can expect to pay $50,000 a year for university education here you coul

millions of americans face this uh sin -- unsustainable health insurance system where if they can get coverage, it's pricing itself beyond their reach. we need change we need competition and choice, and that's what the affordable health care for america act does. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute mr. lungren: 23 you were to write a reform of the health care system of oamerica, you wouldn't have a the pelosi bill. if you were to write the health care bill for liberal san francisco, you'd have the pelosi bill. why? it would cost too much, it would tax too much, it would be heavy on government, it would be wild on bureaucracy, it would contain 3,425 separate uses of the word mandate. 3,424 times the government is going to tell you what to do. 3,425 times we're giving power to the federal government to get between you and your government. in america, it makes no sense. it may make sense in liberal san francisco, but

[laughter] but, that is just inescapable and unsustainable. it can't be fixed and there are other problems at work as well just be on this recession and their structural budget deficit because the revenue structures we depend upon, the top three revenue sources are property taxes, sales taxes and utility tax. those three combined are barely enough to pay our public safety budget so we have got another 100 revenue sources we put together to pay for all of the parks, libraries and streets. if you look at sales tax, not on their reshifting from a goods economy to a service economy we are not getting the sales taxes off of the goods that are sold on the internet. we are supposed to, nobody pays the. were not collecting the sales tax and it is not going to grow the rate of the economy. property taxes are not going to grow at the rate of the economy. utility taxes, we are trying to conserve energy, conserve water. we have a couple of other taxes that we have the fee that is a good source of revenue because lots of cities dump other landfills. we are