knowledge that one or another parent, whoever is serving, might die at their jobs. right. and that blanket that hovers over them on a day-to-day basis, tell me about speaking to them about this reality of their lives. well, you know, there was i talked to a lot of students whose quotes and names didn t get in the story for lack of space. but i remember talking to one student who said that, you know, you have to understand, just what you just said. she said, you know, we have to live with the fact that when we say good-bye to our parent, the parent goes off to war, that might be for the very last time. and to hear these kind of comments from 17-year-olds was really, you know, astonishing. and they were very calm about it because, frankly, they re very used to it. as i went to fort campbell in part because of the 101st airborne which has been, as you know, one of the most deployed units of this war, iraq and afghanistan. you know, i remember going there
generation who knew what it meant, you know, you work, your put your time in, there s going to be something there for you at the end of the day. it was guaranteed. you didn t worry about it. and now and the fact that public employees still have fixed pensions is the thing, i think the single thing that distinguishes them from so many private sector places which has added to this mistrust of these too generous public employee pension things that the rest of us who no longer have fixed pensions feel toward the retired civil servants, the retired cop, the retired whomever who gets his or her, you know, generous pension at 50 or 60 and out. they still wield power of the pensions, though, because as you ll recall, this is kind of a taj ent, but after what happened in newtown, it was the pension fund that owned freedom group, and they said what are you doing here with this investment, and they sold it. yeah, they dropped the investment. they dropped it. it took them only two or
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u.s. government that sticks a gun to its head. sorry to use gun metaphors, but basically sticks a gun to its head and says we don t trust ourselves to legislate like normal people. even presidential commissions don t work anymore. what we ve got to do is give ourselves artificial deadlines and bring ourselves to the precipice, create all sorts of uncertainty, create manufactured crises because without that pressure, we can no longer be counted on to do anything that remotely redecember bem zesembl thing. they re going to say okay, we can t do this all right now. let s set up a process for tax reform that will resolve itself in 2013. let s set up a process for entitlement reform in 2013 and create another trigger, sequestration, kicking the can down the road. but i would say one thing. what s interesting for me here is that republicans, by and large, have won this argument. they are getting a lot of spending cuts. they will get, if they want to accept it, some social security reform i
voters have given them. that s the credibility question that republicans face right now. yes, they all suffer from it. the president suffers, too. but more importantly, they re not thinking about the broader economy. they re not thinking about even the next two or three months in the markets because there is this deep, deep ideological struggle. until that is resolved, until republicans decide whether or not they re ready for national government, this isn t a district-by-district thing. tax rates are not resolved on a district-by-district basis. and every member of the house, even if they think they ve got a big mandate, they all know that. this isn t about saying i get a mandate, and i set the tax rates. it s about saying i think the republican party should go this way, and the house speaker thinks it should go another way. and when you re in that situation, the president cannot resolve it on his own. of course, part of the problem is that no matter will you re a democrat or republi