[inaudible conversations] well, were going to move straight on. Im very, very pleased to introduce our panel on discalling [inaudible] you know, sometimes when youre organizing a nabe conference and panel, its like bringing friends together. And this is one case like that. We have real friends of nawe on the dais today. I wont belabor their introductions, but were very pleased to have Doug Elmendorf with us today, isas all of you know, past director of the cbo. Hes been in front of us many times, we always find his views and positions extremely enlightening. Its wonderful to have doug is us. And its also good to have Glenn Hubbard with us who is dean of, dean of the russell sorry, dean and Russell Carlson professor of finance and economics at the Columbia Business School and is the past, past chair of the cea under george w. Bush. And finally, we have our moderator, michael peterson, president and coo of peterson foundation. Michael oversees strategy for the foundation and looking at t
Apropos story than that one that kind of described how people view flyover nation. You have a reporter from bloomington, indiana, who went down went out of her way to find some sort of christian mom and pop shop she could stereotype. This is during the freedom the battle in indiana. That was basically allowing people to say, if you own a business and you want to choose how you want to run your business, thats fine, if you dont want to violate your religious conscious there are limitations. If youre actively engaging in discrimination then youre going to run afoul of the law but if youre sincerely professing your face and saying in this instance on a wedding ceremony i dont want to give you my artistic skill or labor or expression, then thats understandable and that what this was about but this reporter went out of her way and went to this really little tiny little small town, one of those small towns where you have the storefront windows and people still park in at the middle of the st
Community and later in and the states of sonora. There are mexican families here who has been here seven or eight generations some more with the original group were soldiers who came up in 1776 and founded the community. The u. S. Has always been a very racial society. And then if we think of the of blackwhite relations after the mexican war all of a sudden white americans had to deal with mexican people. And they didnt consider the of mexicans to beat you white that they were inferior they did not know where to place them in the ratio of hierarchy that existed in the country at that time. They were not sleeves slaves or african but definitely they were not white. Sometimes they were referred to as the race of mongols between natives and the europeans like the spaniards. So almost from the very beginning there were these patterns of the anglo newcomers tried to dominate the mexicans that were already living here. It wasnt quite as bad as it was in parts of california and texas primaril
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