[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody to the Carter Center in atlanta as a juror jury youre here tonight to talk with bob herbert about his new book losing our way an intimate portrait of a troubled america were on cspan as well so all questions are being taped. Bob is a longtime columnist for the new york times. I am also a columnist for the Atlanta Journal constitution we were just discussing the duties and the joys in english of column writing. Imus your column in the times. What i really miss that you reported and talked to people in you heard a human voices soar american voices in your column. That is missing with journalism. And it shows in the book. Ordinarily someone in my position how much i enjoyed reading your book. Your book may be angry or frustrated or a little frightened but i sense that is okay bayou. That is fine by me. That is the point. Host walk us through it. Guest sure. I left the times is in 2011 and a lot of people have asked to lightness doing the column.
Woo we are here to talk with bob herbert about this new book losing our way an intimate portrait of a troubled america. We are on cspan as well so all of the questions are lived and taped. Bob herbert was a longtime columnist for the New York Times. I am jay booker. A write for the atlantic constitution. We were just discussing the challenges. I miss your column. I miss that you reported and went out to talk to people and harder american voices and i think that is missing in a lot of american journalism. A lot of leg work. It shows in your book here. Ordinary someone in my position is supposed to say how much i liked reading your book and frankly i did not enjoy reading your book. Your book made me angry, frustrated frustrated, frightened but i kind of sensed that is okay by you. That is fine by me. That is the point. Exactly maybe you can walk us through. Guest sure. I left the times in 2011 and a lot of people asked if i miss writing for them and the short answer is no. I tell people
Him. We have got buildings named after him. Why dont we see what he said about default . And just know, when he was president , republicans and democrats raised the debt ceiling no less than 18 times, i say to my friend. 18 times we raised the debt ceiling because, yeah, we had a debt from prior bills and Ronald Reagan said send me a debt ceiling increase. Look what he says. He said the full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic Financial Markets and the value of the dollar. Ronald reagan, 1983. And thats when our economy was much smaller than it is today. So how does the party of Ronald Reagan now get us to this point where three days were about to default . I didnt hear one word out of them when they decided to put two wars on the credit card and a huge tax break for billiona
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