Human rights brits have enjoyed since the days of winston churchill. And theyre prepared to jeopardize britains membership of the eu, and our prosperity with it, in order to appease their backbenchers. So much for a credible plan from the conservative party. And most astonishingly of all, they have chosen to single out the workingage poor to bear the brunt of the final years of deficit reduction, while refusing to ask the superrich to make a single additional contribution. Thats the people scraping by on the minimum wage. The jobseekers whove found themselves temporarily down on their luck. The men and women trying to earn their way out of poverty, often working more than one job. And given the conservatives are not planning a single tax increase, how will they pay for all their spending commitments . They will have no choice but to cut the services they have not protected like social care, policing, education, education right to the bone. No wonder theyve stopped claiming that were al
Occurring is that when people get the disease, they get scared, and they run to people they think can them. Traditional healers, centers of faiths, or friends and relatives even. And that in turn leads to the movement of sickness and disease into new communities and new chains of transmission and that has let to the wide spread dissemination of the disease and the virus. Third point, how then do we respond as the disease spreads . Well, we have to recognize it is spreading rapidly and probably doubling a number of cases every 34 weeks and that means a huge facility for people with the disease, a great increase in community centers, a lot of work with societies to help them respond to the disease and others to help get prepared. A massive social mobilization on an enormous scale. Not just in the most affected countries, but in neighbors ing countries and indeed throughout the world. This going to scale so Everybody Knows about the disease knows how to prevent it, knows where treatment i
So, unfortunately, the time of death has proved to be a time when the virus tends to spread very widely. And in order to get control over the virus, people are having to change the ways in which they handle illness and handle death and to move away from traditions that are centuries old. This has been a major difficulty for many of the societies that are affected. And its really only in the last few weeks, thanks to the courage of the leaders of the countries concerned, that theres been a much greater emphasis on people coming to terms with and owning the disease and changing their behaviors so that theyre less likely to spread the disease. Another phenomenon thats occurring is that when people get the disease, they get scared. And they tend to run to people who they think can help them traditional healers, centers of faith, or even friends and relatives. And that, in turn, leads to the movement of sickness and the disease into new communities, new chains of transmission. And that has
With you today. One of them was who is your personal hero . Mine was jim brady. One was a personal connection. Anyone with any objective research would find that we were the last of the press secretaries who shared the hollywood good looks and fashion sense that very often you see in the movies. He is a hero not because of what happened to him. People faced tragedy in the lives. He is a hero because of what he did with it. We live in a very partisan and difficult town right now. It is hard to believe that we can find Common Ground on issues that arent that hard. Jim and sarah got things done. We should not forget that. What was your favorite data white house . Another easy one. When we renamed the press Briefing Room after jim brady. It was my favorite day. It honor jim and i think it brought great joy to jim, sarah, and the family. Probably just as important for me, it honor his legacy forever. Whoever the president is or the press secretary is, where ever they stand on issues, when t
The face of very tight and unusually tight fiscal policy for this period. It has been effect it, but the it has been effective but the precisesize of the impact is something that we can very reasonably disagree about and we can and work will continue. The uncertainty of the impact and the effects of ending programs and so on, one of the reasons we have treated this as a supplementary rather than as a primary tool. Don lee l. A. Times. Unemployment benefits are expiring shortly for millions of people. How much of an Economic Impact do you see that having . What effect would you expect that would have on the Unemployment Rate . If those people drop out of the labor force, will that not the Unemployment Rate down quite a bit . Yes, obviously it has a big economic effect on those directly affected who are receiving benefits. We do have an unusually large number of longterm, Unemployed People in the u. S. It is a major concern and one that i cited in my opening remarks. The effects of exten