chance the so-called super committee will come to agreement on getting our fiscal house in order. so now americans will have to gobble up more than 1 trillion in arbitrary cuts, right? well, not so fast. those so-called triggers don t come into play until 2013, long after next thanksgiving and more importantly well after the 2012 elections so the turkeys in d.c. continue to serve up a half-baked debate while they focus on getting elected. what americans are hopeful for is an honest plan equal to the challenges that we face, but maybe that s my impossible thanksgiving dream. joining us now with deep wisdom on all this is an economic policy study director at the american enterprise institute and bob greenstein, director of the senate on budget policies. let me start with you, the super committee was a bust, largely expected but still somewhat disappointing. we ve still got 25 million americans without work who are looking for full-time work, and we seem to have a president who
chance the so-called super committee will come to agreement on getting our fiscal house in order. so now americans will have to gobble up more than 1 trillion in arbitrary cuts, right? well, not so fast. those so-called triggers don t come into play until 2013, long after next thanksgiving and more importantly well after the 2012 elections so the turkeys in d.c. continue to serve up a half-baked debate while they focus on getting elected. what americans are hopeful for is an honest plan equal to the challenges that we face, but maybe that s my impossible thanksgiving dream. joining us now with deep wisdom on all this is an economic policy study director at the american enterprise institute and bob greenstein, director of the senate on budget policies. let me start with you, the super committee was a bust, largely expected but still somewhat disappointing. we ve still got 25 million americans without work who are looking for full-time work, and we seem to have a president who
news industry today and what can be done to preserve it. it s about an hour and 20 minutes. so good afternoon. my name is tom glazier, and i d like to welcome you to the new america foundation to what will be a fascinating discussion about the current state of journalism in today s media landscape. i lead our work here on media policy as part of a team housed within new america s open technology initiative. and for just under the past two years we ve been considering how the changing media and technological landscape affects citizens participation in a democracy. backdrop for our work, a report that concluded that individuals need three things to participate in a democratic society. relevant and credible information, the education needed to engage with that information, and opportunity to participate in the public life of their community. how this will happen in the 21st century has brought a vigorous debate and even the engagement of the fcc. a report on june 9th focused
we have the answer how the grand piano landed on a sandbar in miami s biscayne bay. i wish we were in miami this morning. no kidding. just when you thought it couldn t get any worse, it has. look at the numbers from up and down the east coast. philadelphia, a foot and a half of snow. already in new york, the most snow ever in january. went through all of the snow removal budgets in many cities and states. eight snowstorms here in new york, since mid-december. once every five days. schools are closed in boston, new york city, washington, d.c. people all over the northeast are having one heck of a time trying to get to work. some people didn t even make it home last night from their offices because the storm started around dinner time last night. and in the capital, it was a nightmare commute. so many people stuck in dire conditions for hours, including our own abc news staffers, who are going to give us a video notebook on what it was like to get home. i got out of
not tell them what they thought of the securities and they did so knowing knowing they re whole goal was to reduce their exposure to risk and lay it off on their own clients. do i think that s wrong morally wrong, yes i do. i think it was ethically wrong of wall street to buy up mortgages, package them up and sell them off to investors saying they were doing due diligence saying they were investigating the mortgages that were as build when in truth they weren t. i think that s a problem. i think it was wrong of mortgage brokers to people to encourage people to lie on their applications so they could get mortgages. and i think it was questionable for regulators in d.c. to look the other way as they heard story after story in the mid-1990s that people were getting loans they couldn t pay back. and start with jimmy wells on the anniversary of wikipedia. we keep the servers running, communications legal. all the infrastructure. charlie: why did you do it that way? partl