Joyce applebee, the great historian commented on this setting that after the 1784 limitation on slavery had failed, jefferson quote backed away from attacking the institution as his power to do something about it decrease. The other benchmark that i would like to point out is the Louisiana Purchase. There was a great opening of the west, great opening of the empire of the liberty, or when we acquired a territory that was great debate in congress. Should we have slavery there . And congress came very close to banning it and then passed prescriptions that so outraged the slaveholders who were already there that they threatened secession. They threatened to call in napoleon back in. People said if you dont allow slavery on lands there, they will depreciate in value by 50 . As all this is going on, it was a fresh mama, Congress Still have the will to restrict slavery. Jefferson sent a message saying slaves to be admitted to the territory. And then he went on in the creation of the legal sy
of a godfather and as a totem, as a symbol, as a name with resonance. so, i would say he s still important, and i m sure he s taught in most economics classes. the second on the list is thomas payne s common sense. another brick. another brick. well, you know, he was another american immigrant, too. because he thought he was going to stay. he didn t realize they would have all the wonderful revolutions to call him back to europe. payne was important because payne had this had such powerful attacks on privilege and political conservative and traditions, and he was such a p polemicist that he opened people s eyes to being ruled by ideas that are 800 years old and political arrangements, and, of course, he had an impact on the american revolution, because he came here immediately the first thing he did was write a tract against slavery and then he began writing just common sense. but payne was very important i wanted to i wanted to make the point that the 18th cent
were involuntarily forced to put into general motors. it did not reduce the ownership of general motors. it did not reduce the giant subsidies it was really a spectacular level of dishonesty. it shows the dangers of going down this path of corporatism were government and big business climb into bed together you get some really nasty offspring o. you said it is an 99.9% certain that [unintelligible] could we try to do without experiment for a moment? what if we eliminated the income tax and corporate tax completely, every tax lawyer with is their job and replace its by 22%. would that be more efficient way of raising money? there is no question that a value added tax per dollar raise is less destructive than the current monstrosity we have known as the internal revenue code. it is a single rate consumption based tax. it is just a flat tax in a different way. it taxes your income one time at one low rate but did i have no problem with a bat of a theoretical con job. i can s
representing who? just so we have it for the record. you are representing the american insurance? yes, sir. thank you. mr. wilson, you provide them the information so what do you think? we haven t tried to study the specific question that you asked and we also agree that medical colleions should not be used in this course. but they are used in this course? they are not. and the reports they are. in the credit report they are. if someone fails to pay medical bill it has a derogatory impact on my credit report which is kind of a derogatory impact on my credit score. i m not going to you can t. it s not that you re not. really it shows up. in other words, mr. lson, if someone has difficulty paying a hospital bill and it goes to a collection agency does that show up on the individual s credit report? it will show stila gindin as a derogatory effect on eckert is work. it is not used in our scores. but it is used in the credit report. it s on the credit
conversations. mr. president, i once again would like to convey to you and to the people of the united states, our deep and heartfelt gratitude to the help that america has provided. because of that, afghanistan is once again on the world map in a significantly important way. the flag is flying all around the world. we once again have a voice as a people of afghanistan and this would not have been possible without the sacrifices and resources of the u.s. and other allies including other countries. there were issues that were a concern to all of us. afghanistan is still a very poor country. the work we have done promises a better future for all of us and afghanistan will assure you that it will take the right steps in bringing it better government to afghanistan. thank you, once again, mr. president. [applause] thank you. we have time for to questions from the u.s. press and to questions from the afghan press. it says that you have been able to put aside the tensions and f