I can remember when i was a little kid, john d. Rockefeller would go around and give dimes to the little children. I thought, how wonderful. Id like to be john d. Rockefeller and give dimes. This whole tone has changed in the last very recent years under this administration, i think. Do you think its because of obama or is it because of the 1 not being philanthropic enough . Not being philanthropic enough, is that what youre asking . Right. Ive discussed the taxes. The 1 is carrying the government. At least the top 10 is carrying the government. Weve talked about that. Its not bad to be in the 1 , obviously. I think people, like yourself, still aspire to it and should. Hard work and so on can get you there, plus the right venture capitalist. Over here, please . The president has proposed a lot of commonsense ideas around immigration reform, around infrastructure spending, but at every turn, hes been road blocked by the republicans in Congress Failing to want to agree with him on moving
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But back in adjustments that can be made over the twoyear process. We already know how bad the process is from the shutdown that occurred. We have not had a budget in the United States senate until this last agreement in december. But on the appropriations side, the 12 appropriations, we havent had 12 appropriations passed before the fiscal year of october 1 since 1996, which was under senator trent lotts leadership. And only 13 appropriation bills have passed since 2001. Only 13 total, not in one year but total. Just to give you the degree to which this current process has failed. So it would add significantly to improving it and getting them on a course of evaluating federal programs. So what are the odds of a twoyear budget process . I think they are very good, and we have an example. The murrayryan is a twoyear budget. We have actually done it. And lets see what happens in this twoyear period. Do you take this as a green shoot of spring that they were able in december to reach a bu
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