folks in union cities are lifers, that is to say grew up round here, moved here as kids from cuba or greece or someplace else, but here, once here, stayed, within 50 miles of the place, went to local schools that nobody outside of east coast knows anything about, and when i go into the classes, i see okay teachers. i see a lot of very good teachers, and i see amazing teachers, teachers that deserve to be on a documentary of good teachers. that happened because of coaching, mentoring, and teachers working together. that's another part of the story. you've got principals who build a dumbture out of the building so they are not working in isolation, but they are working together. you got a central administration that is figuring out how to create out of system of schools, people do their own thing, a school system with a common curriculum so if they move from one neighborhood to another, again, the kids get what's going on in school, and it's a curriculum in which teachers in the system major hand in shaping so there's ownership in the curriculum, and educators in the room will know about thes

ancient egypt, greece. clinical nations. number one, no competition. going to be there forever. or so they thought. so what happened to each and every one of them? basically they became enamored with sports and entertainment and lifestyles of the rich and famous. they turned a blind eye to political corruption. they lost their moral compass and went right down the tubes. some will say that actually happened to the united states. but i think an honest assessment would demonstrate that it is already in the process of happening. the real question is can we be the first pinnacle nation to actually learn from those who preceded us? those who take corrective action. or will we go down the same destructive path i personally that we cannot as reason my wife and i wrote the latest book, "america the beautiful" for it we can make a difference because this nation as a child of every other nation and therefore we should have the interests of every other nation at heart. we are the perfect ones to remain in a pinnacle position. for that and a number of other reasons. but as far as their educ

we now have a debt the sizes of our economy which makes us look like greece. there's much left to be done to get our financial house in order. but, boy, you don't make any progress in that direction by signaling to the american people you're not serious about the things you already agreed to do on a bipartisan basis. our good friends on the other side of the aisle have been spending the entire year trying to get us to walk away from spending reductions that we committed to on a bipartisan basis a couple years another. it's pretty clear that unless you tax and unless you spend, they don't have much interest, and we believe that getting the federal government's house in order financially is the single most important thing we can do. the single biggest threat to the next generation and the ones coming after it. so we think this vote is a symbolic significance going into the fall when we'll have the inevidentable discussion about -- inevitable constitution about how to fun the government. we'll take questions and then we're going to-believe it or not, a bipartisan

was my first g20 summit in this role working for the white house dominated by what was happening with greece and the referendum and so on. in los cabos it was another very interesting moment for the g20 because some of the emerging markets sometimes feel well, we don't get to discuss what the big countries do and we want to have the boys because they affect us. i think that really happened in mexico and if you go back and look at the leaders statement he will see that the europeans who were at that stage in the crosshairs if you'd like with the crisis really put on the table some important steps that they plans to take and of course after the june los cabos summit there were important steps taken in europe that really lowered the temperature and help to provide financial healing. as we look at the agenda this year and we have the imf and i know my former colleague will be coming later, we have the imf telling us all that the global outlook and the latest release is work than they expected and then we expected. just recently. i think that we in the u.s. are finding that the recovery is perhap

i think circumstances are changing, attitudes are changing not just within cyprus, but also in greece and in turkey, and we have to capitalize on that. we also have natural gas off the coast of turkey which is -- off the coast of cyprus which is a powerful motivator for getting to the solution that we all want which is a bizonal, bicommunal federation that can share the benefits. and it's absolutely vital to europe that turkey -- that cyprus begin to prosper again, and i think that working on this could be a positive in that direction as well. >> thank you. my time is up, but let me just say in closing i hope that we will continue to support very positive progress that's been made between serbia and kosovo onsetting their disagreements -- on settling their disagreements there and anything we can do to support that, i think, is very helpful. thank you. >> senator barrasso. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on may 10th the republican members of this committee sent a letter to chairman menendez respectfully requesting additional committee hearings to review the open questions surrounding the s

with the amount of damage we were told would be done probably was overstated >> it is very clear when greece said why they don't want to have that degree of transparency because the more you know, the war it creeps you out. so look at what we now know of the program. they are selecting all of the embedded data phone calls a communications through chad, e-mail, video chad, e-mail, video, voice over it. >> to help me understand to talk about the netted data they get the message? >> know they don't get the content they said don't worry the impact of privacy is not bothered we're not read your e-mail but just looking at this to and from and when but it is more than at and it is called digital that were confirmation it has identifiers and locations and if you gave me the choice right now based on the data management techniques here is the choice, i will subject myself either to when month of having someone reid all of my e-mail's or phone calls i would pick content in the second you can listen to me but the infringement of my privacy would be much less even though the law says otherwise but with

and they're glue that is in the metal, they greece and the blue, if you will, that is in the middle is how you do and decide how this works. and so i agree with you, sir, it is crucial. i also know from my experience on the digital television transition, the incredible importance and irresponsibility that acis to somebody who is, perhaps, may be regulated on how service areas and band plans are allocated or decided as you work through this plan. one of the big challenges that existed in digital television transition was how you make sure that you have similar coverage areas and all of these kinds of things. and believe it is possible to find the right solution. it is that easy. wish i could give you the specific cancer. i don't know what it is. i do have the experience to say that i know it is possible to reset. >> thank you. one of the things that the current commission is wrestling with is whether or not to weaken its broadcast decency standards. this is going to be an ongoing debate, it seems. the public is engaged pretty intensely. they're state as well with over 100,000 responses

. >> host: next is thomas in greece, new york. you're on, thomas. >> hello. can you hear me? >> host: yes. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: yes, you question. >> caller: yeah, can you hear me. >> host: thomas, i'm sorry you have to turn the tv volume down. we'll move on to one of video which talks about her artistic ability and also some of the decisions she made about things like the white house china. let's watch. >> here in the family dining room at the farm we have the family's china, which was actually the champion -- the china they used at the white house. i'll just pick one up. it is a -- it has the month gram -- g monogram on it. they garfields were not rich people and did not purchase a specific set for the white house, so they brought this stuff with them. they used it at home and also at the white house. so this was their formal dinner ware. the white house has several pieces of the china but as you can see we have quite a collection here of the china that still exists. so it's a pretty impressive set. china painting was very popular in the 19th century, very p

as economic freedom decline and regulations increase, taxes and greece, the engine that is the basis for prosperity, which is business is lessened and our prosperity is therefore declining as well. economic freedom goes down, so does prosperity. so if the capitalist -- as business people are willing to speak up, we can expect economic freedom to continue to less than an american prosperity would continue to lessen as well. we are far from being a free enterprise capitalism system anymore. we are moved or is a crony capitalistic system, where we've got big government and big business colluding with each other. a great example is the fiscal cliff bill that just passed. we look at me to come out no and what you see is payoffs are well-connected organizations such as hollywood, alternative energy either to the standout for out for me. there's all kinds of special deals being cut and are moving from the system where people think it's fair and this is a system where you can get ahead through hard work and enterprise to one where people think the way to get ahead is the politically well-con

in greece we had a huge -- we needed haircut for greece, but was also very interesting, all of the world actually is not even disputed. without a haircut for greece, would never have been able to regain access to markets. the model on banks which had attends with high interests. and cyprus banks poured other huge amount of cyprus money. at least got a lot of interest for cyprus. but the speculation went. and then wha the european taxpayer pay for this? in the beginning when it became concrete, there were only two who were in favor of a bailout. in germany, everyone -- in concrete was imf and the german government, and then we had to wait and go a long way to try compromises and all of this nonsense. and a chance for cyprus to regain competitive -- quite optimistic. of course, travel unavoidable but it will work. >> remind you to state your name and affiliation and you're limited to one question. jacob? >> jacob, thank you, mr. minister, for a very sobering and refreshing analysis, which is in stark contrast to some of the cheerleading statements made in some other meetings. so thank you

the first thing that popped out was there was no work on greece because it didn't fit into the stovepipes of fossil energy. but we now have the office of electricity and reliability. the office has really upped the game, using some of the stimulus spending. i think that we need to still be more. i think that we need to greatly increase our ability to do an evaluation so that we get the resilience of the system in the case of natural or unnatural acts against the grid. integration is very important. and the chairman mentioned renewables and gas, and we get the kind of backup and a system. >> one of the things that has been very productive is a partnership between the doe and the dod. these strategic challenge, can we talk about how dod is working. >> i know what is happening in some dimensions. two in particular that i will mention. one is the issue of lowering the energy footprint and energy needed in fixed assets like basics and working around building efficiencies and building integration. he can be an important template in the economy. there is also the work on fuels and an area that i

i guess we cannot compare our economy to greece because the only thing that the greeks have really are beaches, and they make -- they don't contribute to the world economy like we do. >> guest: here's how you compare to their economy is their economy, they were living off borrowed money, and there came a time, no matter where the economy produces, it still produces a $40 million year, 40-50 billion, i may have the number wrong, but what they produce wouldn't meet the needs of servicing their debt. what's happened? confidence in their ability to repay went down. the price of their debt went -- interest costs went way up. they've gone through now two and a half, three years of prosperity with complaints. i'm not trying to compare with it. i'm trying to compare what's going to happen to us, but we can deny it saying it's not going to happen to us, but it's. said, everything continues until it doesn't. that's what's going to happen to us. you know, it was -- admiral mullens, two years ago, when he said the greatest threat to our nation suspect any foreign threat, it's not al-qaeda, it's no

active and maintained, the day of the surrender, the day that greece and clinton cell from the art to yorktown to provide reinforcements. it's just so happens that one of the ships in the fleet is commanded by cornwall sissonne. some things made to last bucket of discovery, so what i would call paper and preservation discoveries. prior to 87 the, for the transition, newspapers are printed on stock. paper made of linen rag -- linen rags. off the backs of the colonist of people or as close. also ship sails. these rags were billed and pulp and ultimately sifted into the sheets of paper. and the durability of that paper plate is significant role in the preservation and that today we can find 250 year-old newspaper's better and better condition than last week's boston globe which is probably already yelling. so thanks to the ragged men and paper on which the printed and thanks to the institutions that bound them into volumes for long-term storage we have these wonderful printed accounts of what transpired during the american revolution. what i tend to do is i also look for newspapers that

welcome to greece. but, also, welcome to the state of california and the state of illinois. what is interesting, i think, in the long term if you look at history is that america's founders understood these challenges went beyond the pure economics. thomas jefferson, for example, was, let's say, no model of personal financial rectitude. he just wasn't. but he understood the threat posed by things like, for example, excessive public debt. .. >> or whether we are happy to continue drifting towards this project, otherwise known as the european social model or european social democracy. in the president, i am afraid, i think the jury seems to be out on that one. so here i would like to conclude how does america avoid going down this path any further? well, on one level, it is surely a question of decisions. i am not a philosophical materialist. i do believe that there is such a thing as free well. but it is also true that incentives are aligned in a particular direction, it is harder to persuade people not to follow. the more that we move in a covertly's social democratic convent

, it's math -- that greece's science, its math, its literature, so much are from ancient egypt. when i was a child, i needed to know these things just as whites need to know about ancient rome, ancient greece or ancient anything. that people that looked like them accomplished in antiquity. they need that, so do i. i don't need to know what their people did, i need to know the story of my people. >> host: heidi, freeport, maine. please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: thank you so much, mr. robinson. i so appreciate all the work that you've done for, against apartheid and what not. as a berkeley alum and a fan of -- not just a fan, but a friend of danny scheckter, producer of i think the title was africa today, i'd like to know how you feel that music has played in the fall of apartheid and what you think about the current endeavor bill mckibbon and his 350.org is calling upon for divestment from oil companies in portfolios? >> guest: well, i should -- when you mentioned danny scheckter, i haven't seen danny in a sum of years now. when i was in law school at har

greece got into a situation by longtime mismanagement on the fiscal side. in the case of ireland, it was the banks they tried the sovereign in. in the case of portugal and we have some portuguese in the audience here, it was basically a decade of no growth in portugal. it was a bubble in real estate that was finance by the savings of one institutions, some of which have gone under. a number have gone on her and a government they basically drove up the deficit and regional governments because it's very important in spain. also drove up with big deficits. so in each one of these, you have someone of a different reason. in the case of italy, debt to gdp of over 120% and growing and the lack of action and trying to do anything about it by the former government came in as a technician. technicians are great, but the period of time is limited because they have no popular support vis-À-vis an election, whether it be greece or italy. there'll be elections in italy and we'll see how he does. pitching a popular mandate to get these changes really through. i am encou

greece, $42,000 per person. but the debt per person in the united states, according to the international monetary fund, is $53,400, higher than all those countries. i would say to my colleagues, we are not in a position of safety. i would say to my colleagues that this is the kind of debt load that we need not to underestimate. and we might find that this economy is more unpredictable than we think. and i remember, as i said last night, alan greenspan being before the budget committee in 2001 and telling us not to worry, actually told us we had to worry. and the worry was, madam president, the worry was we had so much money that we would pay down all the debt in the united states and then they worried what we would do with the extra money when we paid the whole debt down. this is the maestro, alan greenspan. and i just say that to say, if he misses it that bad, maybe mr. bernanke would miss it. actually, the "wall street journal" documented when mr. bernanke was advising alan greenspan, the federal reserve chair

res. 84 recognizing the 100th anniversary of the independence of greece. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? seeing none, we will proceed. mrs. murray: mr. president, i further ask the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 85 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: s. res. 85 designating april 2013 as national congenital diaphragmatic hernia month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the objection? mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 9:00 a.m. on

that's what greece and other countries have been trying to do for too long. the two -- when people say austerity they mean either the people should be made poor, because they're living high on the hog and your raise their gasoline prices and raise taxes on them, the value-added tax, the sales tax, or you can mean that the government should work to reduce its own costs, austerity for the government. we haven't been doing austerity for the government here. no european country has seen serious reforms of government spending. the one country i'd point to that has done spending restraints rather than tax increases, is canada. canada has been doing quite well. they took their corporate rate down to 17%. they're creating jobs, having more economic growth, and actually did rein in government spending, which had gotten out of hand, like ours. so i guess canada shows you can do it. they're kind of nearby. obama could take an amtrak train up and learn something. >> host: keith from palm bay florida on the republican line. >> host: keith, are you there? i think we lost k

greece but the head of one group or another. >> i'm getting the hook here. as we say goodbye sunday's super bowl, senator mccain you have a lot of sports packages. tell us about -- you like sportscenter right? >> most mediocre high school athletes are the most mediocre fans. that is what i was. you know i kind of -- nobody thought the ravens would get to where they are so i'm rooting for the ravens. >> let's give her addictions. >> clothes, a couple of points. >> senator schumer you have been to the super bowl. what is it like? >> i met giants fans. i live in brief the new york giants. it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. i wasn't going to go and it's expensive than everything else. my wife said you loved the giants. she said you may be dead before they win the next super bowl. [laughter] that was good logic and she was right about this year. so i went and i loved it. it was the first and only time i have been there. one of the things i'm looking forward to their is i've want to see beyoncÉ. i think she did a great job at the inauguration. [la

and clearly the suggestion that we made concerning the timetable of greece, where we did have that extra two years into given to the country as an indication of that. i will not point the finger at any of them, but we believe that from a general perspective within the eurozone, this should not be an accelerated pace. as with, believe that instead of having nominal targets, we believe that it is a much better approach to have structural targets. which means clearly the structural targets have the right measurement. finally to accommodate the physical accommodation policies, we believe that monetary policy is an absolute must in order to encourage growth, which must go in parallel the degree of fiscal consolidation that i have referred to. >> how to use the policy options over the next year? issues created by managing the fiscal policy, it is on the path at different rates and what problems does this create and how do you internalize this within the monetary policy purpose looking at the major economies and the decisions they have to take? do not think you answered your own question. you i

destroy greece or decrease destroy the e.u.? is probably does, but you can't tell them they'll blame each other. the founders didn't need the e.u. to save his dangerous. all this arises for intergovernmental cooperation and common during. the founders didn't need the e.u. because they have the example comintern for them, the articles of confederation. there is a constitution that prohibits this and makes it very, very difficult in any event. the second objection to justice breyer or rather the objection to a second party is feds want to send sworn off officers. let them try. it seems already suggested, they can't enable and if they do, they will have to pay the fiscal and critical praise. so in a weird way, it would be great if we have fbi agents in santa clara breaking down the doors of pot smokers. i will. i will tell people more but the federal government than 50 papers from the cato institute. [laughter] >> one minus point and then i will end. this is a force of the anti-commandeering rule mentioned that the a button that is

. >> unlike greece and other countries that have been in sovereign debt crisis is, it isn't that we don't have the ability to solve the problem. they do not. we do. we lack the political way. so the very kind of different situation -- the other thing that we must keep in mind is we have not got the usual signal from the markets were interest rates and living beyond their means were interest rates will go up because we have a weak economy. instead we have policies where we are going to keep interest rates and an unusual type of thing. it eliminates the signals to the public looks to for action. what do you think? >> well, they are telling us that the market rates should be incredibly low end we still have a tepid u.s. recovery. you know, i can talk about u.s. financial fiscal crisis and i don't really feel in my heart -- you know, it is still many years in the future. [laughter] you know, the world is tired of sending us a signal. and it's easily process it in different ways. we have the power to get back on a system that works. and it's the usual thing. if you've ever read any self-help b

france is the poster child of all, although maybe greece, i guess, would take number one. >> well, we do know that the u.s. spends a larger percentage of gdp on health care than any other nation by a fairly significant amount. tackling that underlying issue of what a percent of our economy is going to health care in general is really the key issue, and we should be focused on that, i think, much more than the federal government's portion of it, and in this case, we have a proposal that would actually increase health care going in the wrong direction. >> that is assuming that medicare spending equals medicare cost, and, again, as somebody who actually ran the program, i'm not assuming that. >> you want to take that one? >> sure. >> david, this is definitely for you specifically and aarp. the question is this. what scoreble savings proposals does aarp support, medicare, beyond just better care coordination, does aarp support means testing, combining parts a and b cost sharing, or reforms or anything else? >> i think it's important to remind everybody that we recently had a large health

heritage foundation to see what we can do to improve the fate of our country so we will not become greece. no one is more worried about this nation's unsustainable debt situation than senator demint. i've seen him deinvolve over time to someone who could just not sit quietly, who had to take up the cause. in the 2010 election cycle, he was one of the strongest voices this he had would a lost our way -- that we'd lost our way in washington. jim is a kind, sincere man, an individual who is a joy to be around. when it comes to what's going on in america, jim understands that if we don't make some changes we're going to lose our way of life. that's what's driven him above all else, to try to keep our country a place to be place where you can be anything. i look forward to working with jim in the private sector. from a personal point of view, we've had a great ride together. it has been fun. it has been challenging, and i think we put south carolina on the map in different ways at different times, and to people back in south carolina, i hope if you get to see jim anytime soon, just say "thank

there's a wall street and maybe in the city of london have decided they should bet on the departure of greece from the euro son are on the collapse of the euro zone. i think they will be proven wrong. i'd write you the e.u. will muddle through. in other words, more of the same. is that good news there is that bad news? i think it is more of the same. it is a mix of opportunities and challenges. the one thing that i find worrisome of course that the european, believing that we will not be able without a leadership role of the united states, i find it worrisome if the strength becomes stronger that you just described. i think we want a continued, strong transatlantic relationship also share more of the same and we want a self-confident united states that will continue to be capable of leaping and we'll do our best of hopefully come and i'm not making any promises here, kerry a slightly larger share of the burden as they move along. >> when we meet the new bus, will it be the same as the old boss? >> well, with david and wolfgang, first i start with the fact of what has changed and what has chan

greece on some of the polling in a number of states particularly maine when hearing that argument voters just don't buy it that much anymore. it would also add to that you saw coalitions unlikely of ever seen in our movement and these weren't just coalitions standing up at press conference. these were partnerships and organizations like the naacp in particular and in maryland or another state partnerships with religious institutions. our opposition -- if you look across-the-board the ones that put three of those on the ballots. we only played eight on the ballot in the forest in minnesota maryland and in washington. presumably they felt they could win and they spent the time energy and money to put on the ballot that because the coalition when they would come out with a religious argument with you saw were fair-minded religious leaders standing up countering what they were saying and that's something we haven't seen as aggressively in the past. they also are simply losing support. i was on a panel today and this was much more exciting with brian browner once the national organization for

we're not greece. these are solvable problems. we have to have leaders that come up with solutions. the longer you put them off. the harder it becomes. these are solvable problems. >> thank you. bob caster, i'm marketing and market research consult assistant and political polling and congressional races. both of you touched on the issue of candidates recruitment. neither went to the heart. when you chaired your respective campaign committee it was the first act with raising the money is identifying the people who were going the standard barrier. can you talk about how this redistricting and dit dianamic affected people's willingness to put themselves out for office, to set aside whatever the normal work was. put themselves in a position it win or the the best candidates not choosing to run. you end with lackluster candidates or is it simply the ability to raise money or, you know, there's so many factors now, you're own money, outside money, and the win ability of races and i heard several people that of course, they get to washington and can't do anything. not only are some of the

certainly for all the picking we do on greece and italy and spain, they have actually spent a little less year-over-year than they have before. the status came from, california, has managed to do a little bit, too. those are all steps in the right direction. we are only going to get there through cutting spending in the united states. 75% tax rates, history has shown, again and again, going back to the first deficit that hoover ran during the great depression when as history has forgotten, began the process of franklin roosevelt continuing deficit spending in order to take up the slack in aggregate demand. you never reduce your debt that way. the tax increases do not reduce the debt. the new money that comes in that is spent on new programs that get created, those programs perpetuate themselves and they require new spending and new borrowing. cutting spending is the only way to get there. this was the shining insight of the tea party. i am sorry, i should apologize a little bit for my fellow people, who i think might give proper credit to the tea party. this is the first time in my l

to greece and look at how they viewed democracy. what was the essence of democracy? and there's a fascinating fragment, a speech given by a philosopher named protagaris in which he gives a sort of creation myth. this man now is being cited by philosophers of greek history in the classical age as the prime expositive to have of athenian democracy in the period, and he gives a creation myth for democracy. he says that humanity originally was scattered all over the place, victimized by forces of nature and by wild beasts and by other human beings and that humans had to assemble together in commitments for their own security. -- communities for their own security. so he says collective security is the essential reason for the state. then he gives a myth involving -- which is sort of a retelling of the prometheus legend, i don't mean the one in the current motion picture, by the way, although it may not be a far off semblance of it n which he says zeus, the god, decided to give gifts to humanity, and he arranged for these gifts to be distributed broadly amongst the entire

it really is no longer about greece. greece is pretty much irrelevant today. it the germans have calculated the cost of greek exit. it's more if they stay in roughly four basis points if they stay in. they are keeping them in. really it's all about italy today. that's what the game is. we only hear about spain in the markets right now and in the news because there's a pending need of a bailout, we now call it a loin of credit with con decisions attached. [laughter] -- conditions attached. [laughter] we know it. we worry about spain because of what happened to spain may thoop italy. for example, if you look at the three-year bonds of italy and spain, they literally work in tandem. we are little bit afraid if we let spain go, it might spill over to italian shores. if the market seriously lose fate in italy, i think we have dark days ahead of us. but let me talk about right now, because something has shifted and i'll talk about eight months from now. until recently, the eurozone croi crisis has been dramatic in the impact on markets everywhere. there's been a hea

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president which at the end of four years would mean we'd have $20 trillion in debt, heading towards greece. i'll get us on track to a balanced budget. the president's path will mean continuing declining in take home pay. i want to make sure our take home pay turns around and starts to grow. the president's path means 20 million people out of work struggling for a good job. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. i'm going to make sure we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program, but by getting them good jobs. america's going to come back, and for that to happen we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle. i was in a state where my legislature was 87% democrat. i learned how to get along on the other side of the aisle. we've got to do that in washington. washington is broken. i know what it takes to get this country back, and we'll work with good democrats and good republicans to do that. this nation is the hope of the earth. we've been blessed by having a nation that's free and prosperous thanks to the contributions of the greatest g

zero problems with armenia, zero problems with greece, zero problems with russia. i'm being sarcastic. turkey is a hereditary enemy of russia. there is a history there up over 300 years of incessant wars and i think both sides need to tread very very carefully including in the caucuses as to how far this confrontation can go. the russians i think are finding themselves on the wrong side of the large middle eastern divide between shia and sunni. they squarely aligned themselves with syria and they essentially are the allies and the diplomatic sugar daddies of iran and in the long-term when you look at the resources, when you look at the population, it will be the sunni arabs who are going to be the prevailing force in this divide. finally, the relationship with the united states. we have heard a lot about the obama administration pushing the reset button and of course the reset was mistranslated. it was billed as -- overload instead of reset.the syrian case as many other cases, missile defense and others, demonstrate, the depth of fear of the united states, the enmi

this puts us in a road to greece. i know what it takes to balance budgets. i've done it my entire life. for instance, when he says here's the $5 trillion cut. well, no, it's not. i'm offsetting some of the reductions with holding down deductions. >> moderator: governor, i go to -- i need to have you both hang -- i understand the stakes here, and i understand both of you, but i'll get run out of town if i don't allow -- romney: i described to you precisely how i do it with a single number people can put their deductions and credits -- >> moderator: mr. president, we're keeping track, promise you. mr. president, next question is for you. obama: great, looking forward to it. >> moderator: katherine fenton has a question for you. >> in what new ways do you intend to legislate my -- rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically females who earn less than their male counterparts. obama: i was raised by a single mom who put herself through school while looking after two kids, and she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to ensure we got ever

a it's not just in greece, but here in the united states as well. postcard susan glasser, editor-in-chief of foreign policy, thank you are coming. >> guest: thank you for having neat. >> i watch on the stand ofacac various congressional deliberations on public policy and also information that is put out by the various think tanks here in washington d.c. i'd like to watch the main interview by brian lamb on sunday said it a clock, where he hosts different authors and has discussions about the books that they have written. and so, it's an easy way to get information in those books without having to read the books. >> house speaker john boehner campaign for mitt romney. he told campaign supporters that with their help, republicans will keep control of the house this year and that he plans to run for speaker again. the campaign novice in new hampshire, this is 10 minutes. >> or any member of the congress, whenever 89 freshman. send them back. [applause] you know, nancy pelosi is working hard. and even though we won 65 seats in the democrat over the last

for example, pick up a can that has revenue and greece is supposed to take place over the next 10 years and you pick it up and look at them and say, does this really make sense right now given we are still recovering from the recession? is this too regressive? can we find a different form to do a less harmful form of revenue and praise, even right away then monday may be low-income tax cuts. so i think remixes not so hard to come up with. i think i have not yet seen a package that is realistically acceptable to both democrats and republicans in terms of actual policy. in this surprising because i was but even like tax reform component, you think the republicans are in favor of reducing entitlement spend and peer democrats are in favor of raising revenue approaches, but she be surprised how many democrats don't really like the details revenue raising approaches and how many republicans don't like the details of spending cuts. so i think were very far away from the idealistic version of simpson/bowles, which i love, but i just don't think that we're anywhere close to realizing the next th

those things to happen, if they think america is going to have the kind of economic circumstances that greece now has, they are not going to risk having a business. i'm going to cut federal spending and cap it and finally it is on track to a balanced budget. [cheers] [applause] there is one more. we have to champion small business. we have to make it easier for small business. now, the president, the president has a plan for small business. out of the million small businesses, he is planning from raising his taxes from 35 to 40%. that will kill time. and it will kill jobs. the national federation of independent businesses, to look and see what impact that will have on america. the answer is that will cost 700,000 jobs. i have a plan to add 7 million jobs. we are going to work here bring together small-business. [cheers] [applause] and let me mention one other thing. if the president succeeds, on that basis, a guy or a gal could be in the backyard barbecuing with their kids and people can come up and say, here, signed a statement. we want to devote way we can watch you go. in a setting like th

and we have our views about greece. second, by focusing on measures rather than targets -- when circumstances are such that the targets will not be reached. not because the country is lax about it, but it cannot be reached making sure that the measures are implemented. above all, in addition to slowing the pace of needed, in addition to focusing on measures, certainly what we are mindful of is that we should be clearly focus on growth as well. because we believe that the two are not mutually exclusive. in the programs can be tailored in such a way that some growth friendly measures are identified. the eurozone remains the greatest risk for the global economy today. as i said earlier on, the ecb move from two weeks ago and it was clearly a turning point. but the countries have to really work together, much more coordinated manner in order to work together. as you know, the european union and the eurozone are not the only threat. the united states is also currently a threat. the concern is that many of you know that under

the president i am convinced has put us on a road to greece. i will put us on a back to a stronger america, one would stop spending more than we take in. [applause] and now number five, and you will find this of particular interest. to get this economy creating the jobs we need and more take-home pay, we have to champion in this country small businesses. [applause] look, i started a business myself. we began with 10 people. today it employs hundreds of people. our business was investing to help turn around or grow or to start other small businesses. today over 100,000 people work at companies that we helped start, companies like as you heard a moment ago, staples, bright horizons, the sports authority and steel dynamics. small businesses often grow into large businesses. you probably know this, two-thirds of american jobs created over the last 15 years were created by small-business. now i know small business. not because i studied it in school but because i lived small-business. and i know that small businesses are being crushed by president o

we can reform the system now and phase in reasonable changes or be faced with a crisis like greece for benefits need to be slashed overnight. the third, policy makers have to admit that they have made policies they cannot keep. made with good intentions, yes. but given america's demographic, they cannot be kept. we cannot keep health care promises we have made in exactly the form that we have made them. we cannot keep a tax system that we have promised. we cannot create programs that attempt to solve every ill that mankind is eared to. and senator nunn, the third point may be the key. policy makers have fumbled around and fumbled around this issue again and again for years and now because none of them want to admit that they have made promises that cannot keep. it is easier to be aid logically air grant than it is to be realistically humble. our leaders have the opportunity write the fiscal ship. it will take cooperation and decisive pes, but the excuse that politics are tough and tougher today than in our time simply won't wash. every generation has had that excuse. vietnam, watergate

if you compare us to greece we have the luxury of time in a way that they don't. and i think that that drives you to different answers. now, the obvious point that, you know, in some sense of the work that is described creates for the u.s. is you can't do this forever. you have to pay attention in the long run. there has to be a sort of solution that strikes a balance between those two things is i think important that if you look at where the fiscal debate is at this moment, what strikes me about it is it is only about the pace of the consolidation. in some sense the keynesian side of the debate is frankly not in place at the moment. it really is the question of how fast we are going to do consolidation. not with or not we are going to do stimulus now and consolidation leader. that certainly affects me as i am a forecaster. but the united states is in this sort of very different position. you might argue japan, some with certain different circumstances to face different constraints in that environment but all i agree you have to deal with this problem and you can'

we do that while we -- across the atlantic ocean while we see what is happening this hour today with greece, spain and portugal and other countries tomorrow. as a reflects a little bit on where we are today in contrast that with a period of president coolidge, i think if we can magically bring him to earth here and ask what wisdom would you impart to us today for the challenges the united states basis, i came out with one word which is humility. humility in two dimensions that i want us to think about. in terms of the broad issue of the political economy and i dare say the labels change and its governor dean has wisely pointed out to us where today we would replace someone like governor coolidge and which party is quite unclear given what's happened in this country. so my word of humility that president coolidge might have today is for democrats, independents and republicans and people across the aisle both at the state and local level. so i will explain this with a quote. we have heard a few quotes from president coolidge. in early 1925 he gave the speech to a press association, a u.s. pre

can you imagine is talking to countries, maybe other than greece about getting your financial house in order with all that we have seen? come on. i would say that the challenge and i was talking to a student today, a bunch of bright young people, in my opinion, we have an opportunity to play with balls and juggle balls. people in this country are confused. they can't see the really important things, stuff that is of interest, but at the end of the day, what kind of impact will it have on the future of the country? little to none. so i would ask that the discourse focused on the big items rather than in his 3995, and of course, these are billions because that is the number two shorter in washington. there are some things that we need. some things we can do without. and you have some people that have been working pretty hard. they actually have to institute these budgets. i had my personal preferences. i am a guy that was always inclined to go with smaller, leaner, meaner reasons. the least i had some span of control. the next student? >> okay, go ahead. >> from a strategic perspective,

now, of course, one can become a citizen of, say, greece or france or china. but can one really become a greek? a frenchman? chinese? an immigrant to becomes a citizen of the united states becomes or at least can become not merely an american citizen, somebody who has been to the ceremony, but can become an american, someone who is recognized as an american by his fellow americans. a full and robust sense, he is as american as a guy whose ancestors came over on the mayflower. the question is, to me, the interesting question is how does that happen? it is really exceptional, but how does it happen? how do emigrants become americans? well, in practice, as i say, it goes beyond becoming an american citizen and formally signing on to the american creed. the additional ingredients, i believe, and i want to suggest to you today for your consideration, is something that i, myself, know intimately from my own experience. that ingredient is credited to my gratitude. it is typically and evergreens feelings of gratitude to america for the liberty, security, and opportuni

they don't know whether we are headed towards a major debt crisis like greek or spain, greece or spain but if there is confidence where we're going to be the next year's some money might come off the sidelines. and i think what we will also have to see is, you know, as a part of any sort of big grand bargain to avoid this cliff, i think democrats would probably want to push some sort of extra stimulus money to try to come been to the economy for the short term that might help. that might help answer some of the concerns. >> there is a question of funding the government into the next year. talk about this. >> guest: the continuing resolution. basically the fiscal year once october 1st through september september 30th and usually we get into the end of september and they only have a couple of the 12 appropriation bills done that on the the federal government, and you have to keep the government open on the previous year's levels. this year as a part of a sort of an overall lack of fat mission, we are seeing that the date taking shape in july, which one veteran of the senate said to me so

talk about an alliance between supposedly between greece, israel, and cyprus. russia against turkey. again, i won't turn that into, you know, like a major transformation of relationships, but that is a big part of the process. things are going to change. going to be a good relationship between israel and turkey, israel and russia, the u.s. so let's not go from one extreme to another. i don't see a russian israeli alliance. i think just an improving relationship between the two countries which i think is overall quite positive. >> i think that is the first time i heard the word around in the west two hours. that is -- that leads me to ask this question. how much does that countries stand to lose from developments in syria? the flow of the regime, the emergence of some different kind of regime. is russia acting in part to protect the iranian interest? >> that is a great question. you know, i think that the iranians to stand to lose an awful lot. aside is really there most important ally in the arab world. in many respects to the you know, this is not so much of r

pursuing today are going to help us follow greece into bankruptcy. that's where we are. i thank you for being here today working on regulatory relief, tax reform, health care we didn't get into. but i will tell you one thing about what i'm hearing back in ohio and i'm sure you're going to talk about it here, whether this law has been deemed constitutional or not, whether the penalties of taxed are not and the supreme court deemed it to be a tax. the tax, by the way, that falls disproportionally on middle income americans. the about 75% of the people it hits makes less than $250,000 bucks a year. s is it a tax yet? the supreme court said it was constitutional because it was a tax. the problem is it's unafortble for the families, again, another promise the president made we're going see a reduction premiums a couple $1,000 what happened? not a couple thousand bucks down but a couple thousand bucks. it's unit's un affordable for businesses, chamber of commerce did a survey of small business owner impediments to job growth 75% said the health care law is

you see what's going on in italy, greece, and spain, on the verge of insolvency and bankruptcy, but for other communities in europe, they already have been insolvency and brurps. i don't know of anyone in a similar situation to help the united states avoid bankruptcy if we continue on this path. if we do continue on this path, there's one outcome, and one outcome only, and that is an american insolvency and bankruptcy which in turn means we have no money for national defense. think about that. no military personnel at all, even with the security forces quest ration which is a -- sequester, the tip of the iceberg situation laying off 700,000 american uniformed personnel and/or civilian workers and/or private contractor who are supporting our military with the g-whiz bang rep ri so desired by other nations elsewhere, but they don't have and which gives our military capabilities far above and beyond what our enemies typically can field. given this situation, given the afghan economy. i've been to afghanistan as have you. personally, i don't think their economy in the next decade will be ab

public opinion polls in europe for the united states, the place where the attitudes are the worst is greece. one of the reasons for that, i would argue is because we supported the dictatorship of the military dictatorship that took over we didn't adjust to it we worked well with them and was quite clear we really didn't give a damn. to this day that has affected the greek perception of the united states and its decades later. >> i would say that one of the tensions that continues to exist is this whole issue of and we have a country that can it's terrible human rights abuses but it's important economic ally or important strategic ally, would you do? sometimes it leads to an inconsistency that quite frankly is troublesome. human rights is not only moral issue of national security issue. eliot mentioned the issue of attitudes increase, but i think that when we are on the wrong side, human rights and ultimately catches up to us what it is in the short-term, medium-term or long term. and i think that again, the struggle that goes on we continue to have with every minister every administration i