more if we get the moneyed interests out of all this. i mean, the insurance companies. every single industry that really owns our tax policy to the point where we can t even raise revenues from the top 1% or so that they contribute to the common good. and i think it s imperative for us to get money out of politics, to clean up our elections, for us to own our elections once again. i mean, we just passed another fund-raising quarter where we ve already exceeded $300 million, which is more than we ve ever spent at any one time on elections. and we re getting ready to add millions more on to that in a process that s completely owned by the moneyed interests. it s not fair to the american people. and the problem is, it feels so much better emotionally to advocate for something, one specific policy idea. how do you curb your desire to do what you want to do and redirect your attention to the problem? well, you can t ignore the day-to-day problems and what we have to do, but the fundamen
wrong. and if you said, do you support the mlk strategy of this bill or that bill, they may not know, but they ll have a sentiment. and that s what i found interesting, they would basically come up to me and say, i would ask these questions and get the same answer from every personal. we believe that wealth should be a by-product of working together to solve problems together. and that s the one thing that everybody shares in common, and i get the sense that anybody that goes beyond that is going to be a problem. we re going to be right back with thomas friedman right after this. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it s clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin.
when you look at number of patents awarded to inventors worldwide, the vast majority went to americans. american base inventors got more patents than any other inventors in the world, or combined. how do you harness that brilliance that is obviously in america moving forward? it s a very good question. it s one of the challenges we have. we still invent a lot of stuff. whether it s and again, the things certain things are going to get manufactured other places. that s inevitable, all right? we re not going to manufacture everything here and assemble things. what you do want is to restore this country to being a start-up nation. that was a book that was written about israel, where everyone s starting something. and that s, i think, a little bit what we ve gotten away from here in the current environment. sam? i just, to carry dylan s point a little further, isn t the problem i mean, your policy suggestions are, i would agree, but isn t the problem that we can t get those pas
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the big bogeyman on this, as always, hold on, there, mr. yippie-ki-yay. if you do that, the chinese finance america and they re going to come over here and we re all going to be speaking chinese, if you mess with them. hang on, peter, i m going to the professor here. how do you reconcile that? our problem is not that there s too few people, it s that there are too many people. we are a flood in world liquidity. and that permits the congress to do things that perhaps it shouldn t be doing. true. we would be a lot better off if the chinese were not financing our debt. why? because, then we wouldn t be in so much debt. and clearly, debt is a problem that constrains us, because we can t have a stimulus bill because we don t have the money to do it. get it. peter, how do you reconcile the bogeyman factor, that if you do this currency bill, china s going to screw you by jacking interest rates that are going to stop lending you money, you re going to be screwed? there s a co