It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never
Im the guy you had to put up with during the first panel. Fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars on the first panel. Once again we have Miller Center people here and the Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is the focus on studying the presidency in depth, historical depth, with objectivity. In other words were all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis as pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. We all strive to be as objective as we can but the job of the editorial cartoonist and pat as well as anybody has ever done it to provide comment, opinion. To provoke discussion as opposed to perhaps settle a discussion. The panel today will cover the president s from george bush. I dont use the h. W. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams di
Committee and we have had a number of rethings recently. I got the book and read the book and i thought it was really important, important insights about our relationship with china and strategies over the last, 100 year strategies and some of the ways that they have been not playing by the rules and taking our technology are annotations and military intelligence to promote themselves as a superpower. Some other books that i would love to read and one thing about serving in congress i get to meet amazing people and its hard to choose which book but a couple that are on my list of book on influential women in spokane because i represent spokane. This one has been on my desk and ive also been given the book daring to drive which is about saudi arabia and bremen and saudi arabia and their desire to be able to drive. And then one of my favorite authors is Arthur Brooks and his most recent book love your enemies which im anxious to read. I certainly have more books to read than time to read
Be up and july 4, 2026. Really . The only thing we learn from history as we have heard the cliche is that we learn nothing from history, and this is a ten players and great nations. The average length is 250 years. Some lasted longer like the roman empire, but all followed the same pattern to decline. Anand im on the among the chars that contributed to the decline were Massive National debt. The United States is a 23 trillion. And growing. Just the interest on that alone is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of some nations. He didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or the increase of spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happened is spending. You can always get agreement on more. The second to the decline of great nations into superpowers and empires is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion and then to be assimilated like the immigrants of the pasemigran
Editor. Were proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation. He is the author of more than 25 books, including his latest, roy reforming journalism which he will discuss today. Marvins political journey is unique he became a athiest and marxist in high school and joint the communist party in the early 1970s. It was well at the university of michigan working on his ph. D and he had a spiritual awaken something and was baptized into the presence tieran church in 1976. He later became the founder of redeemer presence tearon church in austin, texas, in 1992. After college, he taught journalism for more than 25 years at the university of texas at austin and became a reporter for the yale dailies news and the boston globe. His first book garnered him significant attention and also caught the eye of the bradley foundation, which support is his visiting fellowship right here at the Heritage Foundation for two years. One of his most wellknown works the tragedy of american compassion which