I want to echo the Ranking Member for her comment. We want the best care for our parents and theyve earned it. Im hearing an opportunity in the next 2030 years to affect the debt. Like some of you, i have a personal experience to this. I do have a mother and [laughs] shes 89. Shes very tech savvy, this aging in place is a new phase for her. My wifes mother is younger and has been diagnosed with alzheimers. Im very excited about what you are doing with the va. You have a Perfect Laboratory to answer some of these questions that youre hearing typically about cost, acceptability. Sometimes in denial about need. Secondly, you have a medical staff that might be less than receptive potentially to some of these new technologies or not. Maybe its a perfect lab to develop these. I would like to get your experience about cost, general experience and medical staff that you deal with. We have an example of a device that would be in place in veterans home. Im not going to turn it on. This monitors
They will turn to journalists to recount what so many indoor it and what none of us can forget. Amid the devastating numbers more than 1800 lives lost. And more than 1 million americans displaced, a million homes destroyed across five states. 150 billion in economic damage. Amid all of those numbers, americans will also look for answers. How much progress have we made in the years since katrina particularly in new orleans which was the hardest hit community and what are we doing to continue supporting the housing and overall recovery in the affected communities . Today is about providing answers but its also about more than that. We are also reaffirming their commitment to the people of the gulf to continue working with them and for them until the job of recovery is complete. You see, as long as there are people who want to come home and communities that need to be rebuilt, our job is not done. Thats the true meaning of commemoration. Not to simply mark a day on our calendars but to en
Middle class. Hope if it continues to be middle class how long of the crisis because middle class wants better, goods and services and expensive and that will, drive, that is driving politics more and more. The fact leaders have to address the concerns, discontent in the streets. I think that will drive the economy even more. There is a lag effect there. Doesnt matter where it comes from but they need better services. I said this before, it is not a matter anymore access to goods. There are 250 million cell phone lines in brazil for 200 Million People. It is matter of access to phones that actually work. The debate shifts from the goods to the services that makes those goods useful. I think that will be a key driver for Economic Growth going forward. That leads opening up with the economy with the debate that is happening. On the Prosecutors Office and constitution, i dont think the constitution is bad thing. There were excesses to some extent. In hindsight, the company came out after
For questions from audience. I had a couple of questions weve received over the internet. For the last 15 minutes or so lets talk about kind where the Roberts Court is and where the Roberts Court is going. We 15 years of the Roberts Court. What do you guys think of the most significant decisions the court has issued during that time . Citizens united, the heller case, marriage. You are clearly ready for that one. I think also juvenile Death Penalty. You know, the juvenile Death Penalty and the rulings on whether you can execute somebody who may not be technically, but is challenged. Cutting back on the Death Penalty in cases not involving murder and cutting back on juvenile life without parole. So the court has narrowed harsh punishment across a number of dimensions spent except for the Medicaid Expansion these. Its basically like an overruling of [inaudible] south dakota. Right. Be interesting to me, the Court Decision about suits unite this but because of the court held as a legal ma
Costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many of the countrys exhibitions and among them, for the first time i saw magna carta at the british exhibition. The 1215 lincoln cathedral magna carta. On my first visit to britain as a serving officer in dwrupt states army, in 1957 i was returning to america to be discharged after serving in korea, my tour of duty completed, my first day in london, i went to the British Mus