We started this. People come up to me on the street and say dave there are all sorts of things and believe me they really do. One thing i hear a lot is parents saying a service thank you for this is done for my child. I want this to become a rite of passage for teenagers in our country. I can tell you this, the next conservative government will guarantee a place in National Governor service for every teenager in our country. [applause] that rule if you put in you should get out more than anyone it should apply to those who want dignity and security in retirement. For years it didnt. There were i think three great wrongs. Wrong number one, the credit that was means tested. The more you save the less you got. Wrong number two, compulsory annuities. It meant you couldnt spend your own money as you wish. Wrong number three when people passed away the pension they saved was taxed at 55 before one to their family. Three roles and we are putting each ones right. The means test is going in its
Lecture on president Lyndon Johnsons war on poverty. Next melvin ely compares the reconstruction and civil rights eras. Its just over an hour. Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comforta
Talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comfortable with, for example ill talk occasionally about the white south or the north or Something Like that and that covers up all kinds of complexities that, unfortunately, i dont have time to get into today. Now, im going to start off by giving you a brief summary narrative of the first r
Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comfortable with, for example ill talk occasionally about the white south or the north or Something Like that and that covers up all kinds of complexit
Show. Hoarders. Peoples whose lives are swallowed up by piles of their possessions. John that describes washingtonv d. C. They keep adding stuff. President obama said he would take out the garbage. I am not one that defends every program just because theyre there. They dont always work. John politicians say they will get rid of waste and once they spend in power then spend more than they have. The reason i hate politicians. The not all of them. There is one senator who wants to clean the waste out of washington. Every year his office puts out this wastebook. Details stupid subsidies like the 10 million you spent touard partner the National Guard with superman. In part four well examine the connection between jim jones, man of steel movie and the National Guard. John 10 million bucks for that. Also National Endowment of humanities gave a Million Dollars of youour money to something called, the popular romance project. The goal . Study influence of romance through novels and film. As far