Inspector general roth, you talked about the port added collection information sharing that resulted in Human Trafficking coming across our borders. I appreciate you keeping an eye on that and you know, everybody being aware of that. I have not yet received an answer for a letter ive written. We had i. C. E. Agent Taylor Johnson in one of our hearings involved in government whistleblowers and the retaliation against them which is really prevalent in the federal government. Its jaw dropping. So director soldana, id appreciate if you would respond to that because now apparently agent johnson has been terminated and the process hasnt really gone through office of special counsel, inspector general. Im really concerned about that will particular case. We have that letter and were preparing a response, sir. Again, the oversight of student viz sas. I will try if weve got to produce some legislationings to facilitate the computer system, the i. T. Systems to do this. Coming from the private s
Recruitment, retention and moralee . Thank you, senator. Thank you for that question. Let me begin at the beginning. Why did we do this in the first place . The reason to open up all mos to females is to make sure that were able to access what is, after all, 50 of the population. Right. And understandably. Im not worried about the merits of that but the implications for the Selective Service. I do understand. That is the action we took. As far as informing the congress, we have the implementation plans for that, including everything that is required by law in order for us to do what we need to do. Separately is the Selective Service system, which is not administered by us. And is governed by statute. You will have a voice in any implications for that. My own belief about that is twofold. First, it stands to reason that you will reconsider the Selective Service system in its treatment of females in view of the department of defenses policies and practices with respect to women as well a
To be a good economist you look at cause and effect. Many times people dont want to see cause and effect. And economists will always talk about cost, when people talk about a benefit to doing something, someone has to talk about cost. A lot of times people dont like to talk about costs. Host is an economist a coldblooded creatures . Guest i dont think so. I think i am a nice person. One of my issues, to help understand me, my initial premise is the each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are your private property. If you accept the idea of self ownership, certain ask check requests are more lancer nicks are immoral. Race is immoral because it violates private property, murder is immoral, it violates private property and so does that. I think you can get a fairly good vision of how the world should be from a moral point of view because you look at the initial premise. Host what about the concept of the common thing . Guest the common good doesnt make a lot of sense whatsoev
So, given what you have heard today, several phone calls guest let me guest lets hear the question first. [laughter] guest i know where you are going. Amp said that when you have stagnant or contracting economy, what politics consists of is pitting one group against another, fighting over a sinking pie. That is what you are saying now. You are seeing wages flat or falling. And as a result, people are looking for somebody to blame for their own condition. And lots of people have fastened on the Illegal Immigrants as the cause of it all. That is not the cause of it all. The cause of it all is that our economy is not going. There is not opportunity. And what we have to do is create an opportunity society. You can do it by one of two ways. You can do it the Bernie Sanders way, by having the Government Spending and taxing, and that something doesnt work. Look at europe. The Unemployment Rates in europe are skyhigh. They have great social benefits, but they dont have jobs. We need to create
Weve heard that Michael Jordan was coming. Stand up. [laughter] but they cute all of you for your support. There is a reception there people there to show you to the rest of the building. Think you for your time. God bless. Uponudible conversations] nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. Booktv continues now with Angelo Codevilla who says u. S. Leaders have forgotten that the Founding Fathers placed the pursuit of peace as the highest objective of american states craft and that this goal was lost during the 20th century and must be regained for the u. S. To thrive in the future. This is about an hour. [applause] well, thank you, john, and welcome to the heritage foundation. Peace has ever been mankinds desire, and yet throughout history war has been his common practice. Well, consider the major conflicts of just the 20th century in which america has fought; world war i, world war ii, the korean war, the vietnam war, the iraqi war i and ii, the afghan war and, of course, the cold wa