, all of growth that does set a slower, more sustainable trajectory is in the u. S. Interest, and i say that for several reasons. One is i do agree with the fundamental assessment that the current strategy has played itself out. The implications for social and political stability, and stability in the domestic context is certainly in our interest. I think also they are projecting that the vision includes a more integrated china with the world economy. I think certainly that is an americas longterm interest. So i think bottom line is we have a national interesting, ber interests, the leadershipses is assessment that they need to change that ever economic model. Now, chris had reverended some new considerations with respect to xi zhengping and the current leadership. I think one very significant change, structurally in the decisionmaking process is been the reemerge ends, not that it was ever dormant, but the party under xi, as he projects it will play a much larger role than it has in t
Wants to spray and he has been spraying our sunlight dependent. Host Zachary Goldfarb, i know you dont cover epa specifically but the president , Climate Change is part of the agenda this year. Guest thats right and the president is putting money into funding and he proposes billions of dollars for Climate Research and for related endeavors. Epa specifically most o of the time is not necessary for new initiative of just concurrent operations and epa is missing some major controversial regulations, for example, the revelation of coalfired power plants both new and old. Theyre trying to put coalfired power plants, Scott Gration of new plants that are badly in fund. Its very controversial. Many republicans and businessmen hate that idea, but its the main executive action the president can take to try to combat Climate Change. Host marji in macon, georgia. Caller hi. Iwatches i think you all need to have some different callers. When you have the reporters lined up in the morning because th
Its not clintons term. It is not george w. Bushs term. This is a different environment and i blame leadership for not trying to rein in that kind of behavior. But im not really sure what leadership is going to do in the way of discipline or aggression. But what do you do with that political environment that is so poisoned that you have actuallyls that would turn down an invitation to go meet with the president and go to the white house . It gets back to valuing, compromise and valuing compromise and consensus. You are on one side or the other. They dont want any of the gray areas and sorting through the issues because it doesnt generate a lot of ratings. Also hasis what happened, whether its through Cable Networks or any other form of media. The point is people want to know if you are on one side or the other. At the end of the day, we will all have differences. The question is how are you going to get over those differences and solve the problem . That is not what is happening today f
What you couldnt and i couldnt. Thats why the process matters. You have both sides weighing in on significant issue. Its the largest Domestic Initiative in our history. Sitting at the table working for it you think about the Civil Rights Act and how it passed, that was bipartisan. Social security and medicare, how to gratify the constitution, giving the women are the right to vote. It is because the United States congresss willingness to work on landmark initiatives and that is not happening with the Affordable Care act. It should have been a process in which everybody was engaged on both sides. I wont get into the why it didnt, but unfortunately it didnt. Ultimately, people are paying the price today. Thats why i think so many people are saying, you know what, i prefer gridlock. With so many problems of the implementation, they say. Not that there wouldnt be as your problems with an initiative of this kind, but it would be less awesome because you have more interest to make sure it wo
Cost is always going to be an issue. It is pretty straightforward and pretty simple. Dollars how many of you all in journalism say follow the money. It is about the money, and people are going to make choices and make decisions about whether or not to do things the cousin of how it affects their bottom line. E need to understand that we need to also understand that sometimes it is going to cost them money if they do not make these changes, and sometimes they can make changes that improve safety and improved efficiency. It is all about having a dialogue and making sure people understand that. It does not have to be an eitheror, that people will be driven by money. Our own government is driven by costbenefit analysis. There are a lot of recommendations we have issued that have not gone anywhere because the costand if it does benefit doesost not support them. It does come down to money. With respect to the relationship, we have to have a balance of people who understand the industry, who