Contributions, not contributions coming from the. 04 . Sil still a filter, but not biased in the way the Current System is biased. The thing that matters more than the Current System is, god for bid, votes. Voters will stop that is what is mattering to the democracy. Equal votes from equal citizens. To describe the solution to this problem is not hard. Why dont we have the solution . Why do we have Political Movement to push for this solution . Political experts tell us is most people dont care about it. Most people look at the corruption and they are ok with it or they are ok with it relative to other issues they want to fight about. I dont think thats actually true and evidence comes from a series of studies. The most recently did was in december of 2013. We asked the public how important is it to you we reduce the influence of money in politics. The answer was 96 of americans said its important to stop the very next question we asked was how likely do you think it is we will reduce
Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, im happy to take questions, eager to take questions which i understand there are mics at both sides. Sitting in the middle, please come to the aisle, thank you. Question over here. So thanks for a great talk. My question is related to how you get everybody and their individual issues to align this greater issue, right, whether its either health care, environment, the lists go on. It seems like there is an emotional piece. How do i place my emotional fervor around Climate Change and if leslie, the bigger issue is the first issue. Its hard for me to get emotional about this bigger one and take that same emotion and pour it into this underlying piece. That is my discussion, my question. Right. So and this is a general problem that people have described around this Reform Movement for many years. I think the first step is to recognize something about how you cannot get what you want. I dont think its enough to think about how i cant get what i wan
Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers . Theyre more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor Market Conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. They are more concerned with where a highskilled immigrants will take a Conference Call with her is at his home or whether that home is listed as a p
He had a lot of goals in life but those were then enhanced when he met and married mary todd. She also was very ambitious. She said she wanted to marry a man of good mind and hopes for a Bright Future and to marry a man who would be president. There was something about Abraham Lincoln that she saw the potential and encouraged it. Mary helped to basically showcase what her husband had done and how far he had calm and kind of hinted at where they were headed stating to the world that Abraham Lincoln had made it and he was ready to move on. He next, Alvaro Vargas llosa discusses his look global crossings which looks at some of the reasons people migrate to foreign lands even in situations where they might risk their own lives. Hosted by the Cato Institute in washington d. C. , this is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] welcome everybody to the Cato Institute. I am the director here at cato. Since the beginning of this year immigration has become a burning Public Policy issue in
Who offered a helping hand and a warm smile. Repeatedly, when i was reading a piece in the the wall street journal written by governor jeb bush, i thought of my familys journey out of the ghetto. He said today the sad real city if youre born poor, if youre parents didnt go to college, if you dont know your father, and if english is not spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you. You are more likely to stay poor today than at any other time since world war ii. What struck me about governor bushs piece was that all except one of his prerequisite for being condemned forest fire poverty applied to me. Fortunately i know my father. But i was born poor. My parents didnt go to college, and english was not and still is not spoken at home. The odds were stacked against me. So like barack obama has been eager to harp on the odds for political purposes, in the narrative he has been pedaling for the four to five years. The Little People at the bottom of the society dont get a fair shake