This i wont do it here. Normally, i would ask you to raise your hands. Do feel that with respect to yourself, your family, your pets, your community . How many of you raise your hand how many of you feel prepared for a major disaster in your community . How many . Ive spoken to all kinds of audiences you if i get more than two or three hands i test them. Who is taking care of your mom in the nursing home . What are you doing with important papers . What is happening . Yes, you could follow the guidelines with food and water. Nice job. [laughter] if you cannot define it, how can you fund it . Lets put that aside. Lets say it is lingering out there. The first is, the federal system we live under. In many ways that serves our country and our people very well. The point is that decision is decentralized. By design, the government decision is made by levels of government as close as possible to the people being served. It is a fundamental tenet of our society. The problem is it doesnt work
Hudson institute of which you are a fellow. Thank you for extraordinary Public Service. You are very thoughtful, refreshing and candid assessment of these issues and i guess its a fellow at the institute, we may be back as we pull the report together to make sure we get the details right in areas we talked about today. I cannot thank you enough. Mike rogers thank you for Public Service to thank you for having me today. When i said the media wasnt . Media was not getting it right i didnt mean cnn. , they are exactly getting it right. Wink, wink. [laughter] i just want to make sure they still let me in the building later today. Thank you very much. The blueribbon study on bio defense heard from Columbia University professor irwin redman or when redlener. This is one hour. Thank you for accommodating our request to keep everything under schedule. We have quite a bit of ground to cover. Our speaker is dr. Erwin redletter. He is a professor of Health Policy and management at Columbia Univer
Coming up tonight on cspan, a discussion on u. S. Preparedness for a biological or chemical disaster. Then the parents of james foley a freelance reporter killed by isis discussed their efforts to free their son. Later, help Homeland Security care on the role of the federal government in protecting cyberspace. The blueribbon study panel on bio defense held a meeting on preparedness, response and recovery from biological threats. This Panel Features dr. Erwin redletter. He is a professor of Health Policy and management at columbia university. He expressed deep concerns with the u. S. Preparedness to deal with threats. His remarks are one hour. Thank you for accommodating our request to keep everything on schedule. We still have quite a bit of ground to cover. Im grateful for your willingness to help us keep the schedule. Our election is luncheon is dr. Erwin redletter. Many of you know him as the professor of Health Policy and management at columbia university. He is also director of th
Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up called tom rush who played here at the cellar door, and he played in boston at the 47. I really pattern myself after, just a guy with a guitar, full position, unapologetic. Falcon musician. Unapologetic folk musician. And i would say wouldtwo and the beatles. What do you think of current pop music . You know, i guess i do not like it a whole lot. [laughter] [applause] i guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i do
Debt. The debt is a huge problem just like a cancer patient has a problem with pain. But it isnt healthy to be but it is analytically unhelpful to be thinking in terms of the debt crisis. We might as well refer to the crisis we are going through as the savings crisis, a crisis caused by too much savings. You have never heard anyone from bloomberg refer to it as a crisis of a glut of money with nowhere to go, but it is, just as much as it is a crisis of debt. Lets begin at the beginning. Lets talk about debt. Reading the mainstream outlets, newspapers, or listening to the idiotic stations like fox, hyou would think that it is possible to have capitalism without debt. Recall of feudalism. Well, it isnt. Once, it was possible to have an economy with debt that is marginal. Recall feudalism. What was the process that led to the accumulation of wealth . It began with production. Peasants work on the land. They produce wheat, corn, so production came first. Then came distribution. That would