That had 333 recommendations for reform to the Grant Programs at fema. Howev however, only found four permanent changes in which these recommendations came forward. Despite reform over a fiveyear period, little in the way of reform appears to have occurred. We had a hearing on this in 2013 in which we went through some of the various forms of waste occurring at fema. Even since that hearing, we still continue to have problems. 280,000 was recently spent for a bear cat Armored Vehicle in dover. We complained of a 600,000 bear cat Armored Vehicle for keen. I guess New Hampshire is ready for the next invasion. We also found recently or the inspectors have found 1. 7 million for unused radios and generators and 174,000 for unused radios in d. C. This is since we last meant to talk about waste. Every dollar wasted makes a difference two taxpayers. Right now, fema is more than 20 billion in debt because of the Flood Insurance program. Disaster spending often far outpaces the annual Funding C
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The other party, you could do an amazing job there now, much better than you ever could before. But there are other things that are at play as well. For example, population sorting. Theres a wonderful book that some of you might want to read by a guy named bill bishop called the big sort. And he basically talks about how people, in a sense, they kind of vote with their feet in that people tend to move and concentrate with people like themselves. People are more comfortable when theyre with likeminded people, and that this is becoming more and more and more so. And that when you look at, say, democratic districts or look at, look geographically across the country, what are the districts the democrats tend to represent . They tend to be large urban areas and close in suburbs and college towns. And then you say, okay, where do republicans live . Small town, Rural America and in the more outer reaches which are the faster growing of the suburbs. But thats a clear population pattern or poli
They facilitate what we call social selling. It enables a salesperson or professional to leverage their network and ultimately convert what would have been a cold call into a warm prospect. Tell me a little bit about your process. Inhouse you build something or tools for your company to use. If you liked it well enough, you would push it out to the public. Tell me what youre working on in this area. I think youre referring specifically to how we at linkedin is leveraging it as a platform to generate value for our employees. It is important to draw distinctions between what historically has been public professional network, which is what linkedin is. Most of is publicly available by design. There is a private professional network of which you will increasingly see within the enterprise. There is sensitive, competitive situation. At linkedin, we are Building Tools allow us to collect values from our own platform. We want to have the right kind of engagement and productivity enhancement.
Backlash against republicans. Why does this tend to happen in second terms . Think about when a brandnew president is elected and you are young enough to remember in 2009 , whether you were democrat or republican, liberal, moderate, conservative, there was a real curiosity how this new president is going to do and howxcitement, passion, is this guy going to do . Y people wanted the country to do well after tough times, and that is fairly typical when a new president is elected. But over time, the novelty wears for myd over time decisions are made, tough, governing decisions are made that tend to tick people off, and that the fresh, new ideas and to dissipate some. The team that elected the president lycian really, they generally go off and make money. So they have the cteam on the field. The final thing is chickens come home to roost, things that you said or did in the first term come back to you, and they will thingsou on your ass, like that come back to haunt you in the second term.