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i haven t followed so many professors i graduated. thank you all for coming. you know, we were going to call this panel what mr. coolidge retail mr. obama, but then it struck us that mr. coolidge was singularly short on his words. you probably heard that famous story to this report of an up to him and said mr. coolidge, i ve made this big bad that i can make you say three words. mr. coolidge looked at him and said, you lose. [laughter] and so i thought if we had mr. coolidge talking to mr. obama, expensive president would go into this big explanation of why he was doing what he was doing to mr. coolidge might just say, not. or he might say, my man. so, let me i ll take a few minutes to frame this distinguished panel we have. as david mentioned, what is unusual is where some of the best minds in the country, but they re not just is in the field, but they have played a role in public policy, so they know what it takes to make public policy. to that mix is what is going to m
coolidge have to do a lot with what we are facing today. [applause] thank you very much. i have one question and then the moderators prerogative i think, and that is a that the u.s., we are the most productive country on earth from what i understand and in that basically means we do more for less. the criticism is often made that companies are making all this profit that they but they are not hiring anybody. where the most productive country and we don t need all those people. so can you just sort this out for me? are we going to have to go through a whole generation before people start getting wealthy again and everyone is project if and what? can you help me out anyone? i would be much more optimistic than that. productivity growth since 1900 the u.s. has averaged 2% a year. we had a surge to around 4% of your during the information technology revolution and that matt was talking about but it s really surprising, if you go back and look at the historical statistics in t
i am not sure you can. it cannot. [laughter] we have gone pretty far down the road in anticipating in irresponsible way what sequestration would mean in a responsible way what sequestration we have gone pretty far down the road in anticipating in a responsible way what sequestration would mean. when we move to a question of reverse ability as a matter of strategy, that is frankly too far out in the darkness to define the challenge with any degree of regularity. all we know is that the national guard now plays a vitally important role in terms of our domestic security. that role has changed considerably and in general moved in a positive direction over the last 10 years. the reality of asymmetric warfare, weapons of mass destruction, terrorist adversaries and nation states to execute these kinds of attacks prompted policy that moved the national guard to the forefront in terms of the safety of american citizens here at home. most of those missions would be executed intel
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