And they are carrying out attacks in other places. Fortunately, there were not Many Americans in the mall at the time, but it shows that a group like alshabaab, and there are other al qaeda affiliates and other places, are still intent on carrying out terrorist attacks. That is what we happen to call a soft target was not well defended. Our embassies around the world, as well as our country at home, remain at risk of attack. If there were to be an attack later on, whether it is on the scale of 9 11 or something much less, the American People would then be saying why didnt you do anything and everything you could to keep the country safe . Host Twentynine Palms in california tammy, you are on with john bellinger. Caller good morning could i want to say thank you to the National Security for all the work that they do. My husband works for the department of defense, and i realize how important National Security is. It does keep us out of war. I hear people say that we need to get out of w
Policy stance with having a Good Relationship military to military with egypts military and our military. Think that when a government or a country with which you are allied does something that you do not like, i think there are different ways of reacting than simply saying were going to punish you or cut this off or that off. We have very Close Military to military ties. Lets use it. I think you have to look at the biggest picture. When mr. Morsi was in power with the Muslim Brotherhood, we had no assurances that the alliance between our two countries would continue. We had no assurances that the peace treaty with israel would continue. We had some assurances but it was lukewarm and halfbaked. Tunnels forof instance going from egypt into the hamas terrorist carry out. That was not done under the previous administration. I think you have to temper it. Mistake. T was a i think it should not have been done. Family. T things in a there were times it you have disagreements with your spouse
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here we go. The committee will come to order. On january 27, 1838, a young state legislator named Abraham Lincoln spoke before a gathering in springfield, illinois. At the time, america was a deeply divided nation. Lincoln warned that the greatest threats to the young democracy were internal. He said, quote if danger ever reaches us, it must spring from up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. For the nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide, end quote. The actions of the past few weeks, the the extremism of a small core of pens in the house of representatives have put our nation on a very perilous path. For more than 200 years, t
There has been a minority that is held up the ability to go to a budget conference. Quite frankly, the majority needs to speak at some point. Im not talking about democrats or republicans. Im talking about a majority in this body that needs to speak to stop this kind of craziness. Lets get down to real life. Agriculture is pretty big and oklahoma pretty big in oklahoma. Operating loans are a pretty ommon thing. If we default, can you tell me what the impact will be on somebody going to get a oan . We still have to beat. Hopefully the lending will be available in the borrowing will be available. Any time there is the chill, the panic of uncertainty, there is a pullback. There will be a pullback. We will all scramble around to try to do the best we can to find quality borrowers and quality lenders. You will have commercial ctivity. In the act particularly, as you well know, there is a real linkage between what happens in washington and what happens on your farm or ranch. We have to be se
Ridiculous the way we kind of lost, i think, our bearings on what economics is. Another thing thats burning me about verybodys talking backing the american dollars. What i was taught when i was in college is that the goods and services that a country produces is what backs the currency. If youre not producing anything, you havent got any backing. Alan you said youre a farmer. What do you grow . Farmer rancher. Wheat and corn and alfalfa hay. And thats another thing, we have a direct payment thats due to us that cant be paid for us right now. Its been a whole year in the making. I get 7,000 a year on usually on the deal. Were not going to get that until the government guys and the usda can go back to work. Ok. Alan, thanks for tuning in late in the afternoon in utah. We appreciate it. Thank you. And by the way you can check ut those numbers at u. S. Debt clock. Org. Right now 16. 9 trillion and change. Had the democrats been serious about a consensus solution, they never would have clos