Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing we forget is the vibrancy of the democratic socialist tradition in the United States. And bear in mind were talking democratic, small d socialist ie scandinavia not the old soviet union. And in the american tradition were talking about people from eugene debs to Michael Thomas to people like Barbara Aaron right. This is a lively american tradition that has influenced policy in our country in a gr
More a benefactor beneficiary. Nevertheless, when you look at the amounts of dollars that are coming in based on the exploits of the student athlete, you know, should there be some balance in the equities . Absolutely. But are they in the form of salary . Should the whole relationship be in the form of terms, wages, conditions, and benefits which seem to inure more to the idea of employee as opposed to beneficiary, then i would say no, that we need to take a look at how we can balance those equities without making it a pure employer employee relationship. I dont know if people are aware that, you know, theres a lawsuit filed yesterday, sackow versus the ncaa which is relying on the fair labor or fair standards labor act and why student athletes under scholarship are not paid minimum wage, which becomes another issue since other in work study situations other students are paid the minimum wage and are able to gain some kind of paycheck. But in the end i do believe that our culture in Co
Your ancestors walked on and now their bones lay beneath. Not for sale. The American History tour continues with a new mexico plow and a new mexico pueblo visit to a Spanish Mission in florida that was aimed at converting native americans to christianity. All sunday at 2 45 eastern here on cspan. James rosen on how the u. S. Government wastes millions of taxpayer dollars on the war on terror. Really the only u. S. Official who became who really try to investigate what happened to all the money that the Uniteds States sent to iraq. There are different estimates. Over 11 billion of the roughly 20 billion in iraqi money that the United States sent back to. Raq was unaccounted for what stewart balance investigators found was that nearly 2 billion in cash, in 100 bills was stolen after it was flown from Andrews Air Force base to baghdad, apparently by powerful iraqis, and was being hidden in a poker in rural lebanon. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific. Compton, whoand recently retired
More on the state of college byletics at an event hosted the big 12 conference. Athletesters, former and University Officials discuss the pros and cons of the current how things might change if some athletes were paid for performance. From the National Press club in washington, this is about 1 15. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. Of our panelion discussion today, organized and sponsored by the big 12 conference. Collegeathletes athletics occupies a unique position in our culture. The athletes themselves can be among the biggest stars in sports. Think about johnny football. Not, theyr stars or will likely work hard. Colter, former northwestern quarterback, testified before the National Labor relations that he spent 50 to 60 hours a week during Training Camp in the summer and once the his commitment to a student, he be said, in light of his athlete. Ns as an a finding of that same nlrb likely a significant step in radically changing further how College Athletes i
Is id imagine for texas football. I want to close with a question to each of you. If you had to fix one thing regarding the money aspect of where we are heading or one thing that concerns you most of the road were heading down, what is it, pete . I think one of the things one of the places where were headed right now, jimmy, thats scary to me, is that as and especially at the lower tier schools in the big five, as they struggle to build buildings to compete, as they struggle to catch up, i think we could see a purge of nonrevenue sports in order to focus more money on the sports that matter financially most. I think thats a trend were going to see in the next five years and i dont think thats good for anybody. I think if we go down the road of paying football and mens basketball players as the agents and their agents, the trial lawyers, would like us to do and i got plenty of friends that are trial lawyers including my little brother. At least you did. Were going to be put in a situati