Provinces. They give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. Whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i dont know. Its going to be the difficulty of getting out there. Ch and thats a serious problem. Thats why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether its on oversight or green issues, health issues. Because theyre the ones with the eyes and ears. Theyre out there. Theyre community based. Thats what were going to have to rely on. And were toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. To be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. Thats more difficult. Tths not the gold standard. We have to, who is watching the watchdogs . Who is going to watch the people, you know. So thats a whole process that we have to do. We have to deal with the ngos. We cant forget them. We cannot forget an independent press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not
Dollars. From the American Enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Im arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. And were delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. So, this is bill gates. Thank you. With his wife, melinda, hes the cochair and cofounder of americas largest private foundation, the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the United States among other things. Previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the Worlds Largest software company, which he cofounded in 1973. Most importantly, like me, hes a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. But thats not what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that hes doing here and around the world. He shares so many of the priorities of th
So let me ask you about that intransigent set of problems that we have in u. S. Education. And i understand that there are certain problems that you can you can eradicate the guinea worm. You cant necessarily eradicate ignorance. Here at aei were trying to improve the Free Enterprise system. That doesnt mean well be done at some point. I mean, thats just the nature of social enterprise as i understand. Here in washington, d. C. , we talk about Public Education all the time. This is the capital of the free world. We should have the best education system, and it should be an exemplar to the whole world. I think we should we should agree. Were pumping more than 18,000 per kid per year in the system, and 15 of eighth graders read at a nationally acceptable standard. So what do we do . Well, it is phenomenal the variance in how much is spent per student. You know, utahs below 6,000 per student per year. A lot of states are in the 7,500 per student per year range. Youve got some that spend m
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