Minding my own business and teaching a course here in georgetown. Its good to see my students here in the front row. I think that the president asked me to do this with other complex projects and most recently when we did the recovery act in the first two years of the administration. He said to try to coordinate. We have every single federal Agency Working on some element of fighting ebola here at home or overseas. For me, i have been able to climb the learning curve and sylvia burr well at hhs. My objective is to make sure they are workinging to and we are reallocating resources and getting decisions quickly from the president and making the difficult spoiss that need to be made. The thing that has been surprising me, but humbling to me is the vast array of people who are acting to fight this disease every single day. We are sitting here today and my favorite spots on planet earth and there hundreds of volunteer workers in Community Care centers and liberia and sierra leone who take v
I think you both have captured a couple of important points. I would like to exploit a limited but for the. Ron mentioning faith, identify the role that communities play in helping to control the spread, the arc of an illness. In the 1980s, many communities came together to complement, supplement, the work that colleagues were doing in the science to create a more immersive context in which to respond to some of the dynamics of the elements. Thet now one of organizations that has been on the front lines has been doctors without borders, and they seem to borrow some of the efforts that you were describing with paul farmers work of bringing a whole community into the work. Could you talk more about your own experiences in trying to mobilize thick power of communities in support of responding in moments like this . Well, the thing that i have most experience obviously is in hiv, because it was so pervasive. We had the anxiety of ebola, and we have had a handful of cases here. Back then we
Good morning, everybody. Please have a seat. It is wonderful to be able to announce the filling of one new job. Before we do [laughter] i wanted to make a somewhat broader statement about the economy. Ash is willing to indulge me. Last month, americas businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. This keeps a pace this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. So far this year, over the first 11 months of 2014, our economy has created 2. 6 5 million jobs. That is more than in any entire year since the 1990s. Our businesses have created 10. 9 million jobs over the past 57 months in a row and that is the longest streak of private sector job growth on record. We also know that the pickup and the pace of job growth has been in industries with higher wages. Overall wages are rising. That is a welcome sign for millions of americans. We have an opportunity to keep up this progress if congress is willing to keep our government open, avoid selfinflicted wounds, and Work Together to invest in the
With bodily fluids, blood, fece fecesvomitous, things people doo o talk about which is the reason healthcare workers are the ones who are most at risk because they put themselves, they run in to the fire, not away from the fire. Thats why we have the risk translated into infection. Gets extrapolated by the American Public when they see ebola, they think somehow, everyone is at risk, and youve got to keep telling them the scientific facts, that they are not. I remember so clearly, jack, being on ted coppell, nightline trying to explain to someone who was arguing against me that the risk this was 1982 and 83. The risk, they say, well, why dont we not allow gay waiters to wait on tables in greenich village . Because we know now that a substantial proportion of them are infected. So what happens if they bring avacado you have a cut on your hand, you pick a plate up. People were focusing on that. So you had to bring the scientific evidence. Is that possible . Yes. But do a probability curve
We should not dissolution ourselves. Illusion thatthe just because tiki party exists, that the problems are going to be solved. Theyre going to have to solve some of the problems themselves, amongst themselves, about what actually they stand for. That is why i think your initial question there is a lot of agreement on the things that are wrong, but the direction we should go remains open within the tea party itself. It was a good question, because i read it in something that you read. [applause] we will take questions from the audience. The answered everything. Gentleman over here. Disagree with the notion that the conservative movement and the tea party are one and the same. Because i have been involved in the conservative Movement Since 1976 when i became a volunteer for the reagan campaign. The big difference that i see is that the goldwater activists that i got to know and the activists from the reagan iran the conservative activists, were very sharp political operators. And they k