Challenging. And if you could visualize an educational system where a child is continuously challenged if they cant achieve a level theyre shunted off to a different challenge or theyre asked to do it over again. You now have education thats tailored to the individual. And i am absolutely convinced that that is going to create a class of smarter people. Our children are going to be smarter than we are and their children will be smarter than they are. And is that a good thing . Yeah, i think so. Smarter people do everything better. Ask we could solve some and we could solve some really important problems like eliminating war. So ive gone on a little bit from the spectrum issue. Host and finally, what kind of cell phone are you using today . Guest well, i, you know, i always have the latest cell phone you better. Guest peter. [laughter] the difficulty with cell phones today is they are really aimed at techies. And i want to have a cell phone that anticipates my needs may ask me a few que
Paychecks of all americans, not just the wealth of a few. That will be the order of the presentation. Talk about the economic challenge, how current proposals stack up in meeting that challenge and additional action plan that i think that can meet that challenge. So, the economic challenge we face was well captured in the jobs report released last friday by the department of labor. First, there is the good news part of the story. It is very good news. The economy has continued to grow and more americans are finding jobs. Last month, our economy created 252,000 jobs, capping the best year of job growth since 1999. The Unemployment Rate fell to 5. 6 , which meant the Unemployment Rate fell faster last year than any year since 1984. The private sector has now added jobs for 58 consecutive months. 11. 2 million jobs total. Gas prices are down, the stock market is up and the deficit has fallen rapidly. This is all very good news. It would not have been possible without the tough decisions p
And it is, as my colleague from alabama mentioned, the cuban missile crisis wasnt even just that there were Nuclear Missiles in cuba pointed at the United States. Fidel castro was telling kruschev to fire them into the United States. If castro had his way there would have been Nuclear Weapons sent here. So this is the nature of the regime. So what are you doing with this policy . To me i look at it very simply. I think this fact is true. Every single dollar spent in cuba benefits the castro regime. Every single dollar. If it were otherwise, europe doesnt have restrictions most of the other world doesnt have restrictions. Have the cuban people benefited from that . Has their standard of living gone up . No this all goes to benefit the government. And to me this is the worst possible time to throw the castro regime a life line. If you look at whats happening in caracas, if you look at whats happening in moscow, these regimes are buckling because of the decline in the price of oil. So thi
Current funding is between 2007 and 2008 levels. Additionally, my amendment still allows for more than 10. 5 billion to go to the i. R. S. In this time where we have over 17 trillion in debt, and a deficit this year exceeding 50 billion, this is a modest reduction at best. Again, this amendment only makes a 3 reduction to bring the appropriations in line with the 2007 appropriations. More directly than financial consideration or condition of the country is the fact that this agency has shown contempt for the american taxpayer. It has ignored congress and ignored subpoenas. It has stonewalled and destroyed evidence, it has lied, it has abused its powers and targeted honest americans for exercising their political beliefs. The list of scandals and examples of mismanagement within the i. R. S. Seems to grow every day. This agency, which aggressively pursues american citizens it believes deserves it, must understand that the i. R. S. Is first and foremost accountable to the American People