I buy an automobile. More than 20,000. How much is it worth to the seller . 20,000. Winwin. You enter. Now you buy a lemon once in a while. You generally enter trade as a winwin transaction. Money is the facilitator of win win transactions. It is one of the great things we have in our culture. , we shouldelebrate change attitudes towards money. I am being shelved off. Thank you. [applause] i was listening, and i was thinking, where do we get money . You go to the cash machine. Awould like to end on takeaway. I feel like you come and listen, you need to take something away. Of going to base this off the New York Times editorial. Ouple of weeks ago fr i want to test it for myself. This is a generational change. This is the take away from todays discussion. Topics, issues, projects. We are attacking content that 10 years ago was ridiculously complex and too complex for the doityourself consumer. Were seeing this huge move to complexity is free. So investable at this moment. I will give yo
Did has affected our country enormously. We know that. But it has affected me too. No 13th amendment, no 14th amendment, no 15th amendment, my life would be different. I would not be sitting here. But in his speech, you hear this voice. It is perfectible. The country is perfectible. Not perfect, but perfectible. This great war was all about that. When i go into the building that i work in now, that is the theme i tried to carry with me and my clerks. It is perfectible. It is worth, every day, getting up and trying to make it right, trying to make it work. But you cannot do that if you do not do it on principle. It is not necessarily just about your methodology, this or that. It is about whether or not your principles are right and they are the principles of this country. I thank you all, i thank you for this opportunity and god bless you. [applause] thank you, judge sykes and justice thomas. Thank you, in particular, justice thomas, for sharing many of the lessons that you learned in t
Billion in revenues over the next ten years. How things are sized up overnight. Ive said all along, our most important priority is protecting middle class families. This legislation does this. This shouldnt be the model of how we do things around here. But i think we can sigh weve done some good for the country. If it passes the house, here is what the plan means for you and your family. Bush era tax cuts would stay in place for individuals earning less than 400,000 a year and couples earning less than 450,000. Unemployment benefits for 2 million americans would be extended for a year, and the alternative minimum tax would permanently be adjusted for inflation. But when it comes to spending cuts, lawmakers defer for two more months. Thats a nice way of saying kicking the can down the road. Expect more finger pointing and fighting in 2013. White house correspondent brian Brianna Keilar up all night. Joining us to talk about whats going phone in washington, in the white house. This is a
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
Because i think we have that common ground. I think when you say to someone the past doesnt matter you know, it doesnt matter. Of course it does. In your case, it matters that your father went to a substandard school you know, and it matters that his father before him barely went to scho school. Whereas my father has a college education, my grandfather had an engineering degree. His father before him had an engineering degree. Where we are today has a lot to do with where we start. Host i agree. Guest and thats something that i think most white americans today are not willing to acknowledge. So that is one of the purposes of the book and thats the conversation i want us to have is look at the history, look at the sum total of experience. Before you start judging about what policy is good and what policy is bad, lets take a look at the totality of the run up to where we got to this point. Host so, are you hopeful about Race Relations . Guest i am, i am. In the epilogue of my book i talk