But back in adjustments that can be made over the twoyear process. We already know how bad the process is from the shutdown that occurred. We have not had a budget in the United States senate until this last agreement in december. But on the appropriations side, the 12 appropriations, we havent had 12 appropriations passed before the fiscal year of october 1 since 1996, which was under senator trent lotts leadership. And only 13 appropriation bills have passed since 2001. Only 13 total, not in one year but total. Just to give you the degree to which this current process has failed. So it would add significantly to improving it and getting them on a course of evaluating federal programs. So what are the odds of a twoyear budget process . I think they are very good, and we have an example. The murrayryan is a twoyear budget. We have actually done it. And lets see what happens in this twoyear period. Do you take this as a green shoot of spring that they were able in december to reach a bu
My last question for you tom. You were asked when theyre not playing video games. You were asked recently in a Television Interview if you feel youre connected to reality. During that interview, you talked about your expensive watch and the yacht that you used to own. Your response to the question of whether or not youre connected to reality was, im paraphrasing, i give a lot of money to charity. Well, i do give a lot of money to charity, but that has nothing to do with my connection to reality. I think, philosophically, probably no one can prove that they are connected to reality. Im in the same boat with everybody else. How about you, adam . Youre a celebrated interviewer. Are you attached to reality . My guess would be that one of the ways you answered the question was also that, although your immediate family is doing fine, you have relatives who live in trailer parks. I think the point you were making was you know poor people. Well, i wasnt born into the . I used to be a paperboy,
Of relative period equality in the economy and in recent decades, that has been going upwards. There was no are growing we are heading into more of a winner take all economy. Do i have one more click . Yes, i do. This is a line my coauthor and i great call the great decoupling. It used to be the case that for things we cared a great deal about were all going up. Before things are output, gdp per capita, productivity, job growth, and wages. All four of those are great. News is for several decades after the war, we had exactly that. The four of them were going up. In recent years, you see this best of times, worst of times pattern where the two lines related to productivity and output have essentially continued their nice upward trajectory. Hasline of a job growth leveled off and in some cases even changed direction. The average median American Household now takes home less than they did in the 1990s. Simultaneously really encouraged by some economic statistics, those related to output.
Skills what you see is that everyone is delaying marriage in th isty, but one swa delaying having kids until after marriage. How do you spread those norms . I think this is interesting. I call myself a conservative i am comfortable in this goes back to the issue of conclusion more broadly. When you are looking at how parenting has evolved, we look at upper and middle educated people, their parenting not in the way that people parented in the 1950s and 1960s. They are inventing in parenting in a new way. This happens to be unusually wellsuited to a society in which you have very rapid cultural and economic change. Is the high investment parenting is the only thing that this note row group of people can do . Or is this something that a larger part of the population can do . If you need a Public Policy, as i suspect you do, i think that is something we need to think hard about. I think that is going to introduce an interesting new tension. We have been in a rhetorical moment of a Movement
Donny deutsch, how would you like to be secretary of defense . Well, i certainly Richard Haass . Job interview would show up maybe a little more prepared. A little more prepared. Okay, wait a minute. Seriously. You are going to come out of that sound bite and say that . About what . Regretting using certain words and phrases . Good morning, everybody. Fbomb. Its friday. Boom good morning. February 1st. What . Im serious. Thats all you have . No. Okay. No, i got more. Lets roll some more tape. With us on set, he have with the president of the council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass. The chairman of deutsche incorporated, Donny Deutsch. Really . Like the king of regretting statements. And in washington, nbc chief Foreign Affairs correspondent and host of Andrea Mitchell reports, Andrea Mitchell, thank god. Good morning. Richard, that was something. My last confirmation hearing, i was told this hearing is not to show how smart you are or how dumb they are. Its to get you confirmed. At