Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm
In lunch rooms, when reporters have watched, when they go in their lunch bags, they end up in the trash can because you cant force kids to eat them. Yes and no. Yes and no. Thats another thing. School nutrition standards i changed those, too, thats the school lunch program. But the fruit and Vegetable Program for kids is fantastic. Now over 100 million a year. Low income kids across america are getting free fresh fruits and vegetables with a lot of spillover effect. Kids in lunch room, they throw stuff away. They want hamburgers and french fries. Thats right. So people have accused me of trying to tell parents what their kids should eat and tell the kids what they should eat. I said, yeah, im guilty. I plead guilty. Should we let kids eat what they want to eat . If they want candy bars in the morning, would any parent want their kid to eat candy bars all day long . Or to stuff themselves with hamburgers or french fries every day . No parent wants that. Parents want their kids to have h
People have been experiencing for years. People need to be educated. White people and other races, because they are so insensitive to the history of black culture. Host center in mclean, virginia. Journal. We will take you live to the National Press club, looking at democrats in the 2014 election. They will be joined by charles schumer, democrat from new york. We will see you back here tomorrow. It is a high honor for us to have senator, democratic policy chair chuck schumer, charles, a key member of the leadership, a series of three speeches, kicking it off today, what they must do to be successful in 2016 and beyond. In the current congress, senator schumer is a member of the Senate Judiciary committee and chair of the key subcommittee on immigration, borders and security and citizenship, which will oversee president obamas executive order on immigration. He also chairs the senate rules committee. Rolell keep his leadership at the senates democratic policy chair in the current congre
I pick up on colins comment about the person behind the window. When i travel abroad and have the opportunity like my pretty predecessors did to have meetandgreet with our personnel, i tell them theyre all ambassadors, every single one of them, particularly the people behind that window because they may be the only american somebody walking into that consulate ever meets and the impression of our country will come from that young Foreign Service officer. I think this center will remind us, all of us here, as it should and as each of these former secretaries do with their presence here today, that were an exceptional nation, not because we say we are but because we do exceptional things. And today we celebrate a tradition of american diplomacy that has done those exceptional things, that has brought us to this important moment and today we will all commit to keep that tradition strong. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the secretaries will now proceed to the construction site