intelligence. there are ways we can do it that gives people greater assurance that there are checks and balances and programs like 215 could be redesigned in ways that give you the same information without creating these potentials for abuse. and that is what we should be doing. and moving forward on changes. and that is what i intend to do. john? thank you, mr. president, it has been a tough year, you may not want to call it the worst your of your presidenty. you have acknowledged the difficulties with the rollout. when you look back at the decisions that you have made and what you did and didn t do, for you personally, what do you
we can t unilaterally disarm. there are ways we can do it potentially that gives people greater assurance that checks and balances and sufficient oversight and transparency programs like 2015 could be redesigned in ways that give you the same information when you need it without creating potentials for abuse. that s exactly what we should be doing is to evaluate all of these things in a very clear specific way. and moving forward on changes. that s what we re going to do. john? it s been a tough year, may not want to call it the worst year of your presidency but clearly a tough year at the polls going up and down and at a low point right now. i m asking you to acknowledge the difficulties with the health care rollout. when you look back at the decisions you have made and what you did and didn t do, for you personally, what do you think
i m the first to say that. wall street and the president. with all the restorms that he has passed. there are a lot of things i m critical of. let me ask you about a very different kind of redistribution. yes. my hunch is, and i don t want to date it yet. but my hunch is you could take what we pour into certain social sector bureaucracies, and if you found a way to get it directly to the poor and skip all the people in between, you would radically increase their income. i m with you. nixon called for a guaranteed income. i res nation with that motion for the very weak and the very vulnerable. i m with the speaker on the point that the best, the thing the government does most effectively is just write checks. the layers of bureaucracy you put in place tend to do more
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deals and not going to pretend these big issues will be resolved in what is now a lame duck presidency. i disagree with you, ross. i m shocked! i know you are. we ve never disagreed before but this is a first. you know, i think that there are lots of tax loopholes out there that could be closed that could fund critical programs to growing the middle class, to close that income inequality gap. we could raise the minimum wage. one thing congress didn t do is pass unemployment benefits. 1.3 million people are going to lose benefits at the end of the year. it s estimated that that would cost the economy, everybody, up to 240,000 jobs. my question to you is this is all happening over the holidays, about to have christmas, people will be losing their benefits. we re going to see stories of increased hardship. will republicans join democrats in passing unemployment benefits when they return from the