Stores. Are we sick . Are all those people using the stores patients . [laughter] you are basically saying any place that produces products that grows marijuana is a store you can walk into and buy it. Thats not the same. The number of stores is far fewer. Problem isa, the they are looking at changing their law because people cannot access it. Colorado has set up the system. What we have seen is a dramatic migration away from the medical system. Medical sales have gone down. People are no longer bothering going through the process of getting a recommendation. Truly has ane significant medical need, they already can get a recommendation from a physician. They dont have to go out of their way. They have a doctor the already see. Ok . Mary were almost out of time. A quick political discussion of how this is playing for politicians in colorado, and more broadly, for 2016. We have to talk about that. Many republican candidates have said, look, im ok with this. It is constitutional. Its what
The biggest losers have been a textile firms. Because a lot of those jobs, not , just through nafta, but through differences in cost of production went to asia as well. So i dont feel we can blame the loss of the textile industry on nafta. I think it was broader than that. Nafta may have opened the door more widely for jobs to go to mexico, but textile jobs were under global pressure, even without nafta. Now, what does that mean . Because the other side of the equation is that South Carolina has attracted a great number of car companies, more advanced manufacturing companies. So it is kind of a newsbad news story. What i want to do is make it possible to recruit internally within United States and externally from abroad more jobs and im not sure we can get textile jobs back unless they are more sophisticated, requiring higher levels of expertise in the dying and the printing and whatever else is required but i do think we can get more advanced manufacturing jobs back if we provide more
I have enough notoriety through the issues i am involved in that certain elements of society know me and know me well, but broadly speaking, it is a nice feeling to have that. That anonymity. Once you get elected president , it is over with. As i think about it, i think my life has been more fulfilling. I think my personal life, my wife and my family, has been much more fulfilling. Much more happy with my being in the senate than it ever would had been in the white house. Remember, those trying to get bill humphries to run for president in 1988. We were really working on bumpers to run. I got him to come out to iowa the three of us it was paul simon, berkeley bedell, and me. We try to get them to run. After going around, he said to me and said, you know, i think, i think i could run a good campaign. I think i could even win the nomination. By gosh, i think i could win the presidency. But you know what . I would never have another happy day in my life. The splendid misery from the time
Furniture, hosiery and tobacco textile and tobacco capital of the world. Not true anymore. But theres still hanging on, all of those different occupations or professions. My mama was a textile worker so textile legislation was close to home with me. So id say accessibility and looking out for the back home, that the country did not suffer as a result. How has your district changed since 1985 . Oh, tremendously. When we were elected, we had a very compact threecounty district guilford almassas and davidson. Northern North Carolina . Northern North Carolina, northcentral North Carolina. Now, ive only stood one election under the new redistricting plan but now we have eight new counties continue to embrace part of allah mas and guilford, picked up portions of granville, orange and durham and coupled with the five complete counties, all new. It was quite an adjustment. Most recently, we had that was altered somewhat. We kept portions of guilford, allahmas, davidson. Picked up a portion of
In lunch rooms, when reporters have watched, when they go in their lunch bags, they end up in the trash can because you cant force kids to eat them. Yes and no. Yes and no. Thats another thing. School nutrition standards i changed those, too, thats the school lunch program. But the fruit and Vegetable Program for kids is fantastic. Now over 100 million a year. Low income kids across america are getting free fresh fruits and vegetables with a lot of spillover effect. Kids in lunch room, they throw stuff away. They want hamburgers and french fries. Thats right. So people have accused me of trying to tell parents what their kids should eat and tell the kids what they should eat. I said, yeah, im guilty. I plead guilty. Should we let kids eat what they want to eat . If they want candy bars in the morning, would any parent want their kid to eat candy bars all day long . Or to stuff themselves with hamburgers or french fries every day . No parent wants that. Parents want their kids to have h