Good morning. Welcome to had 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for the annual dinner . I know we were all blown away by the fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our e
The fantastic talk that he gave on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful tour deforce of sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment to the counsels work. I want to recognize lockheed martin, our sponsors. And pepsico, snapon. Our chairman sponsors, university san diego. As well as our ben factors and patrons. University of michigan, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without your support we could not do it forum and we thank you very much for that. We have a full day of very exciting talks as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work on the counsel of competitiveness. And i want to really just frame that in a few over arching facts about the good and the bad of our economy right now. The good news of course is that growth as been very strong. While productivity was flat through most of the year. Its rebounded recently and unemployment is low. In enact lowest since 2000. We kno
Welcome to the 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for our annual dinner. I know we were all absolutely blown away by the fantastic talk that was given on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful poor divorce of the imperative for sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment for the council of work and i want to recognize the company and Lockheed Martin are premier sponsors and want to recognize our national for pepsico, deloitte, our chairman sponsor asu, university of california san diego as well as the benefactors and patrons a ten tv and Michigan State university, university of action, verizon, Marquette University and whitecap investment. We cannot do that for him and i thank you very much for that. We have a full day, very exciting talks, as well as the relief of some of the critical annual policy work of the council
This is the place that could use a lesson in liberty. Well try to give them one because, im surrounded by students here, more than a thousand of them who traveled to join a conference called, students for liberty. Because here in Washington Life is dominated by democrats, who want to take away our economic liberty, republicans who often want to take away our pennal liberty. There are a couple exceptions to that. One is congressman justin amash from mesh ban. [cheers and applause] michigan. He is unusual because he has an economics degree. He worries a lot about americas coming bankruptcy. We are probably going bankrupt. How many of you students think, when youre my age medicare will be here to pay for your heart problem . No. John youre wise, im sorry. We will have spent all the money. But republicans are not talking about fixing it. A little bit, but not much. Not enough. And there is a problem we face as a country. Young people dont believe theyre going to receive these benefits they
Charter planes you were talking about when the domestic planes or domestic options were available to him and the question had come up for the president on multiple occasions would he fire secretary price. In the end it was to your point a resignation that was accepted from the secretary to the president this afternoon that came in and was released to us late in the afternoon at the white house. Now you mentioned the name don w right, the acting secretary one of prices deputies that takes over for now and well see what they do in terms of the search for a permanent replacement but after the president accepted that resignation but before we all knew about it before it was public he said this. At the white house, before leaving for new jersey, listen. President trump i was disappointed because i didnt like it, cosmetically or otherwise, i think hes a very fine person, i certainly dont like it. As i said we renegotiate deals, were renegotiating trade deals, were renegotiating as an example