Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the test of the last year. I have worked on guantanamo for the past 10 years. My sense is that if there is some movement until the positive direction, which have not seen out of washington and enter a long time, in a long time, at least we will not see head winds. We are making some progress. I see that continue. I want to come back to what todd said earlier. I am concerned about confidence being fragile. Todd reference what happened until august of 2011. We saw in limited to lie confidence tank. M
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Opportunity. I think theres a lot to what you say, senator, that if we regulate, we do legitimize. Some of todays witnesses have talked about trust and trust is a very important factor particularly with Financial Products and services. So there is that risk. There is a bone in my body that says, i think thats a risk worth taking. And i think its particularly worth taking as we think of these Virtual Currencies as having functions that are a lot like credit cards or debit cards in this respects. Wouldnt you agree that right now, without any form of intervention, without legitimizing it, every buyer out there has to be careful and that has restricted or limited or tapped down the willingness of people to participate . And you really are, its kind of ironic because we want all the Free Enterprise system, but the regulatory scheme and saying ive adapted to that, buys you the opportunity to participate in the market in a way that the other Financial Institutions participate . I couldnt agre
And its credible, probably to the extent more credible because its safe, its guarded and it can be called forward when it needs to, and it can be substituted with something thats strategic and gets there fast. From that standpoint, its true. There is a value, though, to something that you can go back and say, its here, and people practice, et cetera, and thats the political side of this equation, which is very important. In the pacific, weve done it differently as a nation for the United States to what we have done in europe. It can work either way. It really is in the eyes of the beholder and what do allies really feel they need for us to be convinced that, well honor our commitments. I think this is a broader problem with nato again. That is we have gotten ourselves comfortable with the idea that allies can agree to a mission and assume that it doesnt mean that. So we agree, yeah, nato will take on this thing, but does it mean im going to commit military forces to carry this out . An
Conversation than giving any formal remarks. Let me just provide a little bit of an introduction. Obviously, over the last couple of months, most of the oxygen in this town has been consumed with two things one, the Government Shutdown and the possibility of default that was ultimately resolved; and the second has been the rollout of the Affordable Care act and the fact that my websites not working the way its supposed to. And its entirely legitimate that those have been issues of great concern. The impact of the shutdown and the threat of default, i think, not only did some significant damage to the economy at a time when we didnt need self inflicted wounds, but it also spoke to some of the larger problems weve seen here in washington and the sense of dysfunction and the seeming incapacity of both parties in congress to Work Together to advance an agenda thats going to help us grow. With respect to the Affordable Care act, i think people are legitimately concerned because we have a ma