week earlier. how is the shutdown playing out in your district? i know you have a lot of federal workers in your state. how about your district? i have the fifth largest number of federal government employees. yesterday i had a town hall meeting, the room was packed. i heard from federal government employees, contractors, i also heard from small businesses in the community that are being impacted. retail, restaurants, services where we have employee, federal employees and contractors who cannot spend money. they can t spend it on child care. they re cutting back, yes, on groceries and prescription drugs. this is having a real impact. the fact that we now have retroactive pay not only for this shutdown but god forbid if there s another one under this president, that gives only minor consolation and comfort to federal government employees. they need their money now, they need their paycheck now and that s what the president has to do. not only is the ball in his court, the waball is in
house are conveying that the president s message will be nontraditional. it will be optimistic, though the country is feeling anxious and nervous and unsettled about things the president has an optimistic vision. you re somebody, because of your abt to convey optimistic vision, what s your take on what you want to hear from the president? i believe when you focus on what we can achieve together, that optimistic message will be for republicans. nontraditional speech for the president, talking about working together with congress in ways that they means it. in the past several states of at downs he talked about ways to work with congress and turn around way stick his finger in the eye of congress. congress has written laws to oppose those actions. guantanamo bay, something important to the people of colorado, the president cannot spend money on the transfer of guantanamo bay detainees.
they rarely crack down on march hadness. they don t actually come in and call you an illegal book making operation if you are doing that. not yet at least. but then within the space of lotteries the government profits from all of these horrible deals where desperate and boor people poor people go with the lottery. you are playing games with odds that are incredible. 1 in 175 million. you win so much. that s the way the government sells you on it. it is a bad deal. if it was a casino where you had a 1 in 175 million chance of winning, you wouldn t typically go to that casino. you wouldn t play that game. you have a 1 out of 21 chance of getting 21, getting black jack. that s not that great of a deal. lots of people lose money in black jack but they don t think of it as a rip off.
the risk of this happening. this principle of using bit coin from our uptight american employees is what julian assange and wick wiki licks have done. think put pressure on them like pay pell, annex and visa. the people were actually able to continue. i think they raised $2.5 million for bit coin. not just the freedom of speech but for allowing people to spend their money where they want to so the government can no longer dictate what where where they can and cannot spend money. the chairman board asked about any kind of gaming with digital currencies he said
connecticut. otherwise betting on march madness is illegal. many of you broke the law. fortunately the law is really enforced and shouldn t be. why have it? it makes people feel good. it encourages people, poor people to spend money. this is a fundamental issue. i sound like some victorian nag. yes, rich, you are. gambling hurts some people. a group called stop predator regambling said it increases inequality causes people to lose control. patrick bash i am says chill out. he s the author of gambling a healthy bet. what do you mean a healthy bet. i don t mean it is healthy.