York city at the new york public library. Good evening everyone and welcome. I am the director of the Research Library and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the library we are pleased to have Cathy Davidson with us this evening, the author of the critically important book of the new education how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux. The distinguished professor at the City University of new york at the director of the Futures Initiative Program Prior to joining the faculty sh she felt they shared a professorship at the Vice President for disciplinary studies at duke university. Serving on the corporation the developer as you probably know on the firefox web browser and the underwriter of a community of open Source Developers appointed by president obama through the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipient of the award for significant contributions to Higher Education. All of that you probably know it in any case you can read it
A much better use of taxpayer dollars. I guess to our illustrious elected officials a brand new gerald ford aircraft carriers far more important to our well being than heating city schools and baltimore seems that congress is also ignoring the will of the citizenry they represent relegating us to a pretty low spot on the totem pole of congressional priorities which is why which is why it is time to break out the wood carver and start watching harks. You get the. Real thing. As you get to the bottom. Just. Like you that i got. This. Week so. Rather than watching the Hard Sciences i really went to the on top of the wall and. Yeah Goodness Gracious little bit of a divide between what Congress Makes a priority and what we what we what yeah im not allowed to just get to it seems like this administration over and over again sort of says well get to it next week where a little later its a little that all of us get are we got to it i do that in my taxes i dont consider that my light bill medic
Heating city schools and baltimore seems that congress is also ignoring the will of the citizenry they represent relegating us to a pretty low spot on the totem pole of congressional priorities which is why which is why it is time to break out the wood carver and start watching harks. You get the. Real thing. As you get to the bottom. Like you that i got. This. Week so. Rugland watching the harks i am a robot sort of out of the wall and so yeah Goodness Gracious little bit of a divide between what Congress Makes a priority and what we what we what yeah im not allowed to just get so it seems like this administration over and over again sort of says well get to it next week willow later its a little that all of us get are we got to it i see that in my taxes i dont consider that my light bill medical bills they dont take that. Im just totally about where it is Pretty Amazing our congress can just keep going to kicking the can down the down the hill for one you had one job one job and your
Our budget on health care and ten percent must go to health care when in fact only six percent actually so thats like theres a big disconnect and its not like military health care of these are the only things you know i mean whats really disturbing is the idea of what people thought we spent on veterans or for veterans they guess the Veterans Benefits would account for almost eleven percent. Of mandatory federal mandatory spending neither it has to go to matter what actually the only outside about four percent of the actual have it and it was an agriculture in transportation that kind of amazed me because this mandatory spending they doubled the amount we spend on agriculture and transportation so from agriculture they thought it was you know its from four percent to eight percent they thought it was a present only for transportation they thought it was at least six and its actually only two per cent and to sit back and wonder whats happened this is where its happened this is why but t
They. The average for. They thought that the average for defense spending was about twenty six percent of the budget you know you look at it also you know about twenty six percent compared to fifty four percent of what we actually spend so like they kind of assume oh twenty six thats right you take a look at this graph they put up most taxpayers actually thought the militias military spending accounts for roughly twenty six percent of the discretionary budget spending not the the about fifty four percent it actually does most taxpayers probably going to twenty six a good number that we should be spending on them we started spending about not a fifty four percent during the year they also look at that they also thought that we spend about ten percent of our budget on health care right now you ten percent must go to health care when in fact only six percent actually so thats like this big disconnect and its not like military health care of these are the only things you know i mean whats