Secretary of state paul, Stanley Mcchrystal and marcia anderson. This is part of the chicago ideas week conference. They represent less than 1 of the american population. Most of them, from workingclass families. From not too far from here in the workingclass neighborhood of chicago or the bar rios of the southwest or the deep woods of the self and the hills of new england. Or from the rural part of my native great plains. They volunteered a sense of patriotism and a determination to advance their own lives as well. In the course of these two long wars, they have 100 of the risks and 100 of the wounds and deaths. Their families at home have been living in bubble of Emotional Trauma thinking that no one on around them cares because no one was asked of the rest of us. If we did not have someone in that war, or if we did not know someone in that war, it could be out of sight, out of mind. We were not asked to make any sacrifices. The war just went on, fought by these brave Young American
Who will help lead those behind them. It is different than after world war ii because the smaller population, which makes it harder. They are more of a minority. It is important we do these things to reassure them and the organizations. I need a point of order. [laughter] you can go on this time. I do not want to through do that again. It is not as ivy league schools. My College Public institution that serves the innercity section of york did away with rotc about 16 years after i graduated because of the vietnam war. They have decided to bring it back this year. [applause] i want to leave you with one story and one thought. I was in minnesota. They have the military appreciation fund. They collect money for rehab, college, and other things. It unifies the entire state. The speaker was a mother of a National Guardsman who had gone three times to iraq. She is a big executive at the target corporation. She did not want to be involved with her sons activities. She went off to see him often
Now more state capitols dominated by a single party that than at any time since 1952. The Washington Times question, is this the answer, secure for gridlock . Well get your answers. Send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook. Also, you can email us. We will begin with the front page of the Washington Times for our question for all new this morning, there headline do you think this could be a cure for gridlock . The New York Times also has this headline this morning we want to hear from you this morning. Let me give you the phone numbers again. How did you vote in the last election . Did you vote with the intention of oneparty rule in your state legislature . What are your priorities, if so . Let me read this on a federal level, folks believe a divided government has republicans in control of the house and democrats in control of the senate and president obama reelected to a second term in the white house. On a federal level, people believed compromise is possible. Not so, says t
The basic problem is really coming up with a bill that will able to get a majority of support within the house and senate and it seems to me that i think they may be getting close to that. As far as getting a more privatestyle of management, it is the sort of a tough not the they are trying to crack. They have several layers now at the Postal Service. I think what they are trying to do in the house bill is to create the idea that you have more of a private the best type of group of managers that could come in within a couple of years if the financial problems are not resolved by the steps that would be prescribed by the legislation that would perhaps be in the future something that would happen. Host the caller mentioned about unions do union see that as a way of breaking up the unions . Guest certainly, there has been there is a lot of pressure on to reduce the size of the workforce. They have about 500,000 workers. What is in the legislation is in sentence, payments, that would be ma
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