Healthcare. For years, madame speaker donald trump and republicans have been telling the American People they have a plan that is better than the Affordable Care act which will cover more americans, he said would cover everybody a lower cost and higher quality, not a Single Member of the house could rise and say i know what the president s bill is. With no plan being put forward, not clear what the plan really is. You laminate the Affordable Care act and offer nothing in return. They tell the American People you are on your own. They tried to repeal or undermine it more than 65 times in congress and failed. Now they are trying to overturn the law in court and attempting to ram a Supreme Court nominee through to do what they failed to do through the legislative process. After saying we ought not to consider a Supreme Court nominee in an Election Year because we will let the people speak. In fact the people spoke in 2016 and voted for Hillary Clinton by over 3 million disparity. Republic
He was in a one fellow in law and economics. Also a ba in economics. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaftesbury society. Its always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the foundation. As someone that has worked for mashable years now. Though much policy happens on the state level. Its really a great standard. It has reshaped North Carolina and such a positive direction. A lot of the resilience right now and to be on the sound fiscal footing in the midst of a pandemic think you for having me. I really appreciate that. People should know that you actually live in North Carolina so your books writes about federal policy and hopefully after we talk about your book a bit we will get your take on whats happening with the governor and the use of Emergency Powers and et cetera here in North Carolina. Jim, i gotta tell you this book the unelected you can buy this book now i think my colleague renate will be posting in the Comment Section where you can actually get your copy
At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
And you were thinking about the future of American Cities, you would have seen potentially a very bleak future. That was the time when particularly our urban cores, new york city and los angeles, were in the middle of a bona fide crisis. You had seen years of deindustrialization ravaged the working class of the city and an enormous middleclass flight to other regions entirely. That was very hard on the Fiscal Foundation of the cities and the civic life of those cities. You saw the tremendous renaissance over the subsequent decades. That renaissance was not even. You did not see it in every single American City but you did see it in a handful of cities that had a renaissance in governance. The Manhattan Institute was deeply involved in an urban renaissance but one thing we have been arguing for some years is that, wait a second, everyone. We are in a period of relative health. Many majoromeback of American Cities but lets not take this for granted. Lets look at some of those frailties a
And you were thinking about the future of American Cities, you would have seen potentially a very bleak future. That was the time when particularly our urban cores, new york city and los angeles, were in the middle of a bona fide crisis. You had seen years of deindustrialization ravaged the working class of the city and an enormous middleclass flight to other regions entirely. That was very hard on the Fiscal Foundation of the cities and the civic life of those cities. You saw the tremendous renaissance over the subsequent decades. That renaissance was not even. You did not see it in every single American City but you did see it in a handful of cities that had a renaissance in governance. The Manhattan Institute was deeply involved in an urban renaissance but one thing we have been arguing for some years is that, wait a second, everyone. We are in a period of relative health. You see a comeback of many major American Cities but lets not take this for granted. Lets look at some of those