he makes the case that it is still a driving force in politics. then the carnegie endowment for international peace. he will talk about iran and if there s anything the u.n. or u.s. can do about it. do not forget that we want to get our campaign coverage which will look toward the convention. i would advise you to go to c- span.org and find out what we re going to do there. a countdown to convention, republicans will take place august 27-30. democrats will take place september 4-6. the can find that out on c- span.org and c-span radio appeared in a few moments we will hear from paul ryan radio. in a few moments we ll hear from paul ryan. he will address issues of medicare specifically. we will take you to that program starting shortly. we pledge our allegiance to this country, don t we? this is not the first time that people go to political rallies. this must be the most important election in the history of our country. when my father served in the navy, this was a feel
coolidge have to do a lot with what we are facing today. [applause] thank you very much. i have one question and then the moderators prerogative i think, and that is a that the u.s., we are the most productive country on earth from what i understand and in that basically means we do more for less. the criticism is often made that companies are making all this profit that they but they are not hiring anybody. where the most productive country and we don t need all those people. so can you just sort this out for me? are we going to have to go through a whole generation before people start getting wealthy again and everyone is project if and what? can you help me out anyone? i would be much more optimistic than that. productivity growth since 1900 the u.s. has averaged 2% a year. we had a surge to around 4% of your during the information technology revolution and that matt was talking about but it s really surprising, if you go back and look at the historical statistics in t
i am not sure you can. it cannot. [laughter] we have gone pretty far down the road in anticipating in irresponsible way what sequestration would mean in a responsible way what sequestration we have gone pretty far down the road in anticipating in a responsible way what sequestration would mean. when we move to a question of reverse ability as a matter of strategy, that is frankly too far out in the darkness to define the challenge with any degree of regularity. all we know is that the national guard now plays a vitally important role in terms of our domestic security. that role has changed considerably and in general moved in a positive direction over the last 10 years. the reality of asymmetric warfare, weapons of mass destruction, terrorist adversaries and nation states to execute these kinds of attacks prompted policy that moved the national guard to the forefront in terms of the safety of american citizens here at home. most of those missions would be executed intel