You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create the stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian Nuclear capabilities thats another major area. There might be some terrorist organizations interested in developing that. But those are the big players on the international scenes, the nation states to have any kind of real severe ability to conduct attacks. The nsa with north korea a lot of countries would probably have that capability. Its easier to
If you post an immunization rate and they are lacking, they will come up. I suspect if you did that for elementary schools, we are going to post the rate of the children immunized here, so what are your comments on that . First, i would like to agree with your last comment about posting rates for schools. We want parents to be informed about vaccines in general and we should also want them to be informed in the environment they are putting their children in. There is no doubt that is going with 40 or 50 of unimmunized children is there a push to do so . We should be letting parents know as much as possible about both because i read the pediatrics article that staff provided. If a pediatrician pushes immunization, she is more likely to convince someone to vaccinate them if she is passive, thats ok, i will sign a no. To what degree are we posting individual clinics or to individual schools . It seems like you should be doing that in santa monica. The rates for School Vaccination are Publ
Capital gain, youre going to end Chuck Grassley up with much higher, generate. And indeed, thats whats happened when president clinton came in. Capital gains went back in and the rates went to 39 . And seems to me that theres a lot more coherence in a bill with a lower rate that treats capital and labor the same. Thank you, senator. Thank you, both, for coming. I want to start with something you both touched on in your opening statement, but to get more specific, and so ill start with with senator packwood, but ill ask senator bradley the similar question. It deals with the robert bob w. Packwood process of president ial reform. Do you think tax reform would have happened if president reagan had not made tax reform a priority in his administration and a follow on and then isnt it going to take at least that much commitment or involvement from president obama with with his own party in congress to get a tax reform bill enacted and then for senator bradley, could you share your thoughts
Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have many benefits. For example, 24 Million People or 25 Million People working part time now could very well be brought into the workforce. You could find people that werent working to be brought into the workforce, so thats the good news. The question is, what are you going to use to provide the money to do that . And you know, i know the committee has looked at it. Its probably not possible. But who knows . They said tax reform wasnt possible in 86. You could take a dollar gasoline tax or you cou
Simpson and Erskine Bowles in an interview you cannot afford to miss. Hope you join us 4 00 p. M. Eastern. The cofounders of the fix the debt campaign, which many Corporate Leaders are backing. Theyll tell us how they think washington can come together and reach a deal, bill. Sure would be great to figure that out. Maria, looking forward to that. Im Bill Griffeth here at the New York Stock Exchange. Markets continue to feel the sting of the uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff crisis. Look at the dow, for example. It cant decide whether to go higher or lower today. Its been zigging and zaging all session today. Down 42 points. Thats about the midpoint of the range. The nasdaq is down 11 points, about 1 3 of a percent. The s p 500 index also trading lower, down 3 1 3 points. Some longtime traders may say the first and final hours of the trading day are the most important. Since the market highs back on september 14th at the time that qe3 was announced by the fed, the s p 500 has suf