-- and england and western europe? eight times. the state of california, by former state, has close to 200,000 people in prison, at a cost of $32,500 per year, when they are paying $4,000 per year for high-school students. that is in a way apples and oranges, but there is full-time care, but that gives an idea of the dimensions of this. capital defendants, in a single window list 12 by 8 oot cell, for 20 years, waiting for their sentence? you are not supposed to know this being a judge? that is the first thing we have to know. that is the first thing our people should know. winston churchill said, "your society will be judged by how you treat the least deserving of your citizens." so of course empathy has a role. now, if that translates into, i feel sorry for this person and not that person, that is not it. but you certainly cannot formulate principles without being unaware of where those principles will take you, what the consequences will be. in human terms, lawwis a human exercise. if it ceases to be that, it does n

years has everything to do with that you can have the sense how dominant the fact with some go to western europe and understand that the biggest reason that feel so different from our country is they put a heavy price for cathay did not develop the complete independent habits that we did a and they retained a much stronger sense of community and connection the and we have prepared her biggest economic project for the last 50 or six years has been digging builder house is further apart from each other and the erosion is easy to measure and seems to be the biggest explanation why americans self express satisfaction with their quality of life having gone steadily downhill even as the standard of living has increased. >> thank you for your work with 350. i appreciate if you're going to say about how easy it is to translate is a difficult to make into a political slogan. at least in america i took inspiration from perhaps the only campaign slogan that i remember from history class and i have been pitching it to everyone what do you think we ought to clean it up by 2080? >> that is not bad. we find nu

i hope there will be a lot of burden sharing with western europe, with japan, with countries who aretributing now to afghanistan in a meaningful way will continue to do so. >> on the day we are recording this, april 15, when you were here in washington, there was a front page story in the "the washington post," and the headline was u.s. retreat from afghan rally marks rogs of blunder. and it is the -- it is pronounced the valley. the kurengo valley. here is what it says in the middle of the article. for u.s. commanders, the valley offers a heart lesson in the limits of american power and good will in afghanistan. the valley, extreme isolation, its axel-breaking terrain, and its ininhabitants suspicious of outsiders make it impossible to wage an insurgencey. we have been there since 2005, and the troops were, in essence, bullet magazine -- magnates. u.s. troops can be forced out. their picture is in there. the captain's picture is in there. you read this, and you go, is all this worth it? you can see our captain is sitting there holding hands, explain that, with the local tribal leade

cut to o western europe. i'm sure most of you have. understand that one of the biggest reason that it looks and feels so much different from our part of the world saw is that they put a hefty tax on the price of oil. they never sprawled out into the suburbs. they didn't develop the kind of complete car depended habits we did. they retained, by every measure, a much stronger sense of community and connection that we have. our biggest economic project for the last 50 or 60 years has been building bigger houses farther apart from each other. the erosion in the life and connection of community is very easy to measure and seems to be the biggest explanation for why americans self express satisfaction with their quality of life has gone steadily downhill over 50 years, even as our the radical standard of living has traveled. >> thank you for your work with 350. i sort of appreciate what you were going to say about how easy it is to translate and how difficult it is to make into a political slogan. i have been thinking along similar lines. in

giving enough credit to the kind of partnership we can have with our other big partners: japan, western europehe united states. sometimes countries tend to think that their interests are more aligned with china than they are with the u.s., but if you look fundamentally at the relationships between the u.s. and our traditional allies, it's far more in our interest to work together and have that relationship with china than just the u.s.-china relationship on its own. >> suarez: ken lieberthal, what do you think of that formulation, the g-2, the two countries that really make things happen snen. >> i think frankly it's a terrible formulation. it's terrible for two reasons. one is that it's hard to think of of a major global issue where the u.s. and china can simply drive the outcome by itself. i agree very much with what ted just said that we need our partners to a greater or lesser extent on almost every issue. secondly, to the extent that the u.s. and china talk about a g-2, other countries will be less willing to cooperate with us on these issues because no other country will accept easily th

, and our troops that are stationed in western europe. f more concern to us was the level that we received from the pentagon as to what the real capabilities of this potentially standard rock 3 missile -- called a standard block 23-a and what velocities that could atin. from the sources i've personally been able to discuss this with and keeping things within the non-classified setting, that missile, we have very little hope, will ever develop the velocity necesryo take out a high-flying ballistic missile. so we have a big gap in our ballistic missile capabilities, and that gap is the size of europe. and we are betting on the development of a missile that just does not have the physical size or capabilities of developing the velocities we need to protect europe. we don't think that's good strategy. we think that's a weak nns the bill. i still support the bill. it's a good bill, unless we put bad amendments on it. and the bloc of amendments are ok, but we do have some weaknesses and certainly ballistic missile defense is one of those weakne

the judiciary bears some responsibility -- are eight times longer than sentences in england and western europeor the same crimes? eight times. my home state of california has close to 200,000 in present at a cost of 32,005 $1 a year -- $32,500 a year. techies you an idea of the dimensions of this. -- that gives you an idea of the dimensions of this. a single, windowless told by for 20 years. that is the first thing you have to know. winston churchill said your society will be judged by how you treat the least deserving of your citizens. and so of course empathy has a role. is that translated into, i feel sorry for this person that that is not it. but you certainly cannot formulate principles without being unaware of where those principles will take you come out what their consequences will be in human terms. law is a human exercise. to be that, it is not the rule of law. >> in 2004, you made the following statements about the exploding prison population. it tough on crime should not be a substitute or lead us into a moral blindness. unwise.es are often on li seven years have passed since your

congress in the united states and in the countries of western europe at some point have to get the messagelly, we're going to start with greece and go to portugal, go to spain, et cetera, but it's not going to end until fiscal responsibility returns to countries and big debt nations. >> dan, do you agree? because if so, then this could be an early warning of problems in bigger and more important countries and we need to take note of that. >> well, we definitely have problems built up in most of the developed markets. they have entitlement problems, they have deficit problems and surplus problems. the only way to get out of it unfortunately is to inflate. you can see what happened when they tried to put curbs into spending and what's happening in greece today. so, the only way tomorrow politicians to get out of it and keep their jobs is going to be to inflate. so that should help the ultimate hard currency, which is gold. >> jim and dan, thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thanks, mark. >> thank you. >> once again, on the face of all this, the market has rallied back off its lows.

alliance -- as i mentioned earlier, it was started 60 years ago for a different purpose, to defend western europe basically against the soviet invasion. i was ambassador at the united nations and i know what the u.n. can do and not do, and the question is, if you've got a very serious problem out there in terms of various conflicts, ethnic conflict, war people generally being killed and you need some kind of an armed force, i have to tell you, the united nations does not have it. . nato has its own communications system and they have to correct -- protect that because they are command structures for how this large force operates. but also, to give security to countries. people were concerned, they heard of what happened in the estonian when there was a sniper attack. it did not bring the country down. -- cyber attack. if there seemed to be something going on, at first, there would be consultations to figure out how the alliance could act together, but also be prepared if it was something that would bring the country down. we mainly put it on the table. if you coupled it with what admiral blair sa

europe from the renaissance onwards. the industrial and economic culture that developed in western and northern europe in the 16th, 17th andh century never occurred in greece. it found adjusting to the modern world very hard. it's a tough neighborhood. it has had terrible wars with turkey, well known, and the real fundamental of it is it has now a very weak economy outside things you know, shipping, tourism and so forth -- there is really not much in the way of an industrial sector, a lot of the most talented greeks work abroad. it's a really quite weak economic system but very high costs now, and really rather uncompetitive, and a long history of political -- as the greek prime minister himself said a long history of corruption and essentially, paternalistic politics. the sort of politics that is built around family relations, and ties to particular families. a hereditary business. this is a very different political and economic culture from contemporary germany. just a reality. and it's an extreme version of the huge variety in europe anyway. >> charlie: does it have any argument on the argument that turkey makes to be p

only america is about 30% richer than western europe on looking at measures such as per capita gdp. e is a reason america is about 40% richer than europe on individual consumptions that looks at disposable incomes. we have not made the same mistakes he has made. the bush/obama policies are a down payment on this entitlement tsunami that is soon to sweep over america. it is just a way of letting the politicians know to go hog wild. go ahead and spend to your heart's content. if that happens, it happened a dead body of the cato in city. that is my pledge to you. thank you. [applause] if anyone has a question, it does raise your hand. the microphone will come around. i will be happy to

there is a reason why today america is about 35% richer than western europe. here is a reason why today that america is about 40% richer than europe when looking at measures of average individual consumption. that looks at disposable income. we are richer and more prosperous than in europe because we have not made the same mistakes that europe has made. we're now doing that. the bush-obama policy of big government are a down payment on this entitlement tsunami that will sweep over america and the value added tax is a way of letting the politicians know, go hog wild. go ahead and spend to your heart's content. if that happens, it will happen over the dead body of the cato institute. that is my pledge to you. thank you. [applause] if anybody has a question, raise your end. i am told i have to get off the stage but i will be happy to hold corporate and questions? did i depress everybody too much? ? there -- >> what about repaying the money that was lent by the government? david sent out a good blog about it and i thought the advertisements were outrageous. >> the

we have insulted our allies, western europe, and israel. there is no victory in iraq or afghanistan. it's time for a change all right. we need a bipartisan balance in washington not a one-party monopoly. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken after 6:30 p.m. today. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. towns: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5051. the speaker pro tempore: h.r. 5051, a bill to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 23 genesee street in hornell, new york, as the zachary smith post office building the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman

western balkans to our work in haiti today. to those who continue to question the transatlantic relationships or my country's attitude towards a united europe, in answer is this. even if the united states -- my answer is this. even if the united states did not share these things, our global interest alone would bind us together. the relationship between my country in europe is today as strong and as important to all of us as it has ever been. this century has unleashed new challenges no less dangerous than those that came before in the 20th century, and together, together, we are taking them on one by one. they are difficult. there will be disagreements, but we are taking them on jointly. climate change, one of the greatest threats we face, the united states and europe are working together to ensure that all countries and major economies are contributing to a solution. we all look to, and we did take, a major step forward in copenhagen. now, we have to carry out those emission cuts, and we must help the most vulnerable nations from the arctic north to others that are the harbingers of this looming crisis. afghanistan and pakistan. we are wo

strategic ambitions as of 1938-39, i think he saw the world as germany, and europe, the british empire and the world, americans in the westernemisphere and japan in the far east as the four great powers. >> host: and we have this e-mail for pat buchanan. this is from linda. as a former k-12 teacher who homeschooled our son i'm continually appalled at the scant knowledge of history in our country today. i experienced it teaching world history in a private catholic high school 10 years ago, about to graduate from community college. our son took his first hands and teaching expect in the public high school. history, economics and social economics department. the suit had no textbooks and 40% of students had no internet access at home. world civilizations has been eliminated from the curriculum. mr. buchanan, please speak to the state of education in the u.s.a. >> guest: it is utterly appalling. i agree with this woman 100%. i think we took -- they gave a test a few years ago that 550 individuals from 10 ivy league schools, and they were coming with douglas macarthur was in the revolutionary war. they did know who grant was. the

bush administration with officials in helping eastern europe transition from communism to western capitalist democracies after the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union. although it happened a long time ago, i am especially proud of the losing fight that iç helped wage with congressman henry royce prevent the passage of the fiscal year responsibility reagan budgets which at a time of devastating inflation, cut taxes at the same time the defense budget was being double, all paid for with borrowed money, for more than tripling the long-term deficit picture. the alternative budget at the time was a progressive alternative to both parties and produced lower deficits in both republican and democrat bills. at the time, our actions were hugely unpopular. about 70% of the voters in my district supported reagan paused budget. time has proven us right. i am similarly proud that i was the principal author of the much maligned but he central economic recovery act of 2009 which in the midst of the deepest and most dangerous economic catastrophe in 70 years, has pumped desperately

secretary lawrence eagleburger in helping eastern europe country transition from communist -- to transition from communist authoritarianism to western capitalist democracies after the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union. although what happened a long time ago, i am especially proud of the losing fight that i helped wage with congressmen henry royce and mo udall to prevent the passage of the fiscally irresponsible reagan budgets, which at a time of devastating inflation cut taxes at the same time the defense budget was being doubled, all paid for with borrowed money, more than tripling the long-term budget deficit picture. the ob-year old-royce alternative budget was a progressive alternative to the budget of both parties, which spent less, borrowed less, and produced smaller deficits than either the democratic or republican base bills, and won the support of a majority of democrats. at the time our actions were hugely unpopular. about 70% of the voters in my district supported reagan's budget, but time has proven us right. today i am similarly proud that i was the principal author of the much maligned but ab

england and western europe. 8 times. they have close to 200,000 people in prison at a cost of 32,500 a year. jy 12 ask 8 cell for yes question zay people should know. church hillsaid, your i jo you can't put aside principals without being afair >> you just sort of spoke about the second part of that quote. nothing has changed in 7 years, what can be done. there's a growing awareness in you were asked to design a penal system that would win the prize, the one you've got would at leevet be runner up. >> i mentioned cost. if cost is a way for us to ack i think there is a growing awareness of it. >> there is sentencing. if it depends compotely june the judge, it's go toe be that's different it's hard to take an 18-year-old away and his mom says, how long does my boy have to go away? they say 15 years. a 20 yee old doesn't know how long 15 years is. take some of this money and put it in the advicing of the tv shows and books young people read and tell them about these send enses. and we don't like mandatory minimums mple >> h

only america is about 30% richer than western europe on looking at measures such as per capita gdp. there is a reason america is about 40% richer than europe on individual consumptions that looks at disposable incomes. we have not made the same mistakes he has made. the bush/obama policies are a down payment on this entitlement tsunami that is soon to sweep over america. it is just a way of letting the politicians know to go hog wild. go ahead and spend to your heart's content. if that happens, it happened a dead body of the cato in city. that is my pledge to you. thank you. [applause] if anyone has a question, it does raise your hand. the microphone will come around. i will be happy to hold the cord. any questions? did i depress everybody to much? back there. >> you talk about repaint the money there were lent by the government. david sent out a good blog about it. i thought it was outrageous. i would like to hear your comments. >> the question is about general motors running and ad say we pay that the government in kabul. that was when it the most despicably most dishonest things i