War on drugs. Where does your name come from . I was born in czechoslovakia. Is not czechoslovakian. Wanda with a w is a fairly common polish name. The one that i was named after, is the inventor of orchids. It is interesting because a lot of my work is based on working on endangered species and conservation. I guess i was born to this name. My last name is arabic even though i was born in czechoslovakia. Brian you thank your mother in your books. Vanda essentially, those letters are the female endings. It can mean belonging to the man. For simplicity, and also because i did not want the connotation, i dropped those letters. Brian how long have you been in the United States . Vanda about 30 years. I came in high school. I started high school in the czech republic. I won a scholarship to a private, american high school. It was extraordinary. I loved every moment. I was very grateful. I never went back. I did all of my undergraduate work and graduate work in the u. S. Brian describe the
The people who get in government think that they can centrally plan the economy as it the economy or set society was like a chessboard that the government can manipulate. That is the problem with the Big Government. So i dont think i think jays critique is the hamiltonian or henry clay kind of Big Government system perhaps could have worked in washington if we changed the institutions in washington over the decades. I dont think thats right. I think the government failed because it tries to centrally plan. A second point and maybe this is more, i thought it was interesting more bit of an agreement with j. Is that the master and the of checks and balances and that factions and extend republic our each other to the broader public good medicine and fairly, jay can correct me if im wrong, didnt see logrolling. Its a central and crucial problem in government and jay goes into this in some detail. Back to the 19th century logrolling was a huge problem with various programs. I think a discuss
To like . It is about protecting consumers. Just up here across the street from the Old Executive Office building and i predict it will outgrow its space in a few years. Consumer Protection Bureau is a sovereign entity unlike any bureaucracy that existed before. Not under the control of congress but the fed chairman and board dont have a lot of control over it. The president appoints a single director to overlap the president ial term and they have wide discretion interpreting and enforcing various financial regulations and basically have jurisdiction over everything in the Financial Sector from Investment Banking and mortgage banking all the way to daddys money pawnshop in alabama. I have gone killing reports from c e os to have been investigated by the cfpb and it is truly chilling. However wellmeaning this might have been this is a Dangerous Organization and structure is dangerous. That is why the story is worth telling. This is when chapter in a very long saga of what i will call c
Headtohead. Tonights topic is Foreign Policy. The president was leading by 15 points but now it has all but disappeared. The challenge is for mitt romney to take advantage of the president s weakness. Tonight we have Jason Chaffetz of utah. Great to have you. Governor romney, we are fascinated by what he will lay out. What will he say . We will talk about china and the economic impact. When we deficit spend 3 billion per day, theres the economic impact. Mitt romney has a stronger vision. Dealing with china, making ourselves more globally competitive also libya libya, israel, syria, iran and the explosion of terrorism we have seen recently. I look forward to the discussion on china. Gerri net romney famously said he would take a survey of all the departments in the federal government any fed did not have an obvious reason for being he does not want to borrow money from china to pay for the agency. Moving on, real concerns about libya. The president , the administration might have known
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