Benefits. At issue in keystone is not american oil. It is canadian oil. Hat is drawn out of tar sand in canada. Hat oil currently is being shifted out through rail or trucks and it would save and the il Companies Canadian oil industry an enormous amount of money if they could simply pipe it all the way through the United States down to the gulf. Nce that oil gets to the gulf, it is then entering into the world market and it would be the world. Ound i wont say no. Ere is very little impact, nominal impact on u. S. Gas prices, what the average American Consumer cares about, by having this pipeline come through. Sometimes the way this gets sold is, lets get this oil and its going to come here and the implication is that its going to lower gas prices here in the United States. Its not. Theres a global oil market. Its very good for Canadian Oil Companies and its good for the Canadian Oil Industry but it is not going to be a huge benefit to the u. S. Consumers. Its not even going to be a nom
Terrorist Organization Currently subject to negotiation that cuba is hosting for the u. S. Is playing a role company and thepe government, correct . Thats correct and we are notconflic accompanying that have the special envoy nowt and its also the longestrunning civil conflict in the hemisphere. My i dont want to get ahead of myself but if that negotiation works out positively and we are then, we have the ability of the two continents all wa americans without work, without civil war and without war between nations that would be pretty unusual in the history of these two continents wooden it . It would be an historic achievement. C and it would be pretty unusual wars were civil wars in asia wars are civil wars intw asia and sadly wars are civil wars in europe. Trde you talked in your opening testimony that thing greasing theeements trade in the americas the majority of the american trade agreements agreements are with the nations in the americas. Theres more trade between be the eight n
Certainly we have good examples, colombia, because of courageous leadership. Im not seeing a lot of democracy flourishing in venezuela or cuba, from that standpoint. Can you help me out in terms of what youre talking about . Theres no doubt that democracys not flourishing in cuba. And its part of the president s effort to pursue a new approach to see what more we can do to help the cuban people begin their own political opening. As we look back over the last several decades, whats important to remember and acknowledge about our hemisphere is this was a region that was largely ruled by authoritarian government, some military, some not, but which has found through its commitment to human rights and its ability to organize and use Interamerican Solutions like the Interamerican Human Rights Court and the Interamerican Court of human rights to develop Civil Societies around human rights issues and use that to build democracy. Whether its chile in the 1980s, our work in Central America to fa
What actually happens when you have a small startup. The conversation around the board table every single month is about the burn rate and that is about not hiring too many people because youll run out of runway before you get the product built and Revenue Generating profit. So, theres never a conversation about it would be really good if we could employ a few more people. Thats only a consequence of achieving that hyper growth sometimes, once anyway great while. Ive heard someone say theres a kernel of truthd about this ive heard people say the u. S. Has the very best incentives, comparatively speaking, until recent things like patent boxes and the rest of the world great incentives to do the research in the United States. We can weak incentives of employment and very weak incentives of profits. All the incentive structure in our tax law and a whole bunch of other thing sincere yes yes, yes, locate around great universities and start the google, apples, everything there. Dont worry to
Five slices. One is the first five years and the next 20 years, the work phase in the resting phase afterwards. What i think we should do is play, learn and work and rest at the same time because the world moves so fast today we cant afford to have education anymore. We need to stay up to date. Next on booktv historians myron magnet recounts the personal and public lives of americas founders through an examination of their homes. This is about one hour. Are we all adjusted . Well adjusted, rick. Myron you have written a sumptuous book. Its sumptuous physically and its also very rich in terms of its content and something quite surprising. Let me start with the devils question. We have had a founders revival going on for 20 years. We have had put dig books on all the big guys. We are getting books on the lesserknown figures. Why do we need another one . First of all its nice to see you. You will see 32 pages of very expensive color. It seemed to me that one of the things that people hadn