Clara county specifically when we did one of our peers and we had people at hss look at it again could correct me if im wrong but they want to the new period of collective bargaining adjustably increased with a offered. It stayed fairly stable for a while. Our understanding is gone up in the hope it will continue to go up. So theyre just being more right now. It was more of we need to is that correct . That is correct. But they also formalize the county plan could Santa Clara County employees could elect to be part of the Santa Clara County health plan. I think its called valley health. Yes. The county was subsidizing it. The county stop subsidizing it. Yes sir i will make sure im clear. Some counties like la offers an account like 50 different plans and some are like five. These are not weighted. These are not weighted averages based on how many people actually elect what looks like a cadillac plan or something week its just an average of 15 that is the algorithm until we go through t
Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the director for the center for constitutional studies and together with the Federalist Society, we are hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society dean and julie who are with us today for their assistance in organizing the forum and also want to welcome those that are seeing us through cspan and our live stream audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, the Permission Society how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era the presumption of liberty and freedom is at the heart of the founding principles and documents and has been extinguished in favor of the perception of government with individuals having to obtain permission to government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this r
Leadership. And white house counsel. I have tremendous advantages quite frankly. Of course youre gonna meet new people and people that dont know you because theres a hundred 5,000 people at the department and they all want to look at the boss. If the project a level of confidence and also from my perspective i spent as much time as i could. Going to the various agencies and their floors and stopping by shaking peoples hands and getting to know the employees at the department of justice. I would say that question is a little bit unfair to me. B final comments . Because my wife is here i want to say and i talk about this in the book and i think it will be reflected in the book. That is the importance of family and support. I could not had done what i did without the support of my family. I talk about the difficult times that we went through in washington and how it affected my family and becky was always there for me. Im very grateful for the service that she provided. Grateful to George
She was bad, but she was good, too. Anything else . [inaudible] my biggest concern is how do you deal with that when you go out and combat, but how do you every day keep going and not let that ruin your life . While youre in there . Afterwards . Youve got to get home. Its one of those things they dont like down upon but they dont encourage you to seek mental help. When we get back, heres their situation. One day he might be overseas killing bad guys and 24 hours after that hes had our. No one knows when he leaves. No one knows when it comes back. The first thing you want to do is go have a bust and all that deployment the newly saved up and make some young grow rich. Jan girl rich. [laughter] but yeah, just getting help. Youre not stop for doing it. You have to let them know that. But definitely get help. It is going through something. Alcoholism is a big contributor to the suicide. I was selfmedicating for years. I remember waking up at 6 00 in the morning and drinking all the way unt
She was bad, but she was good, too. Anything else . [inaudible] my biggest concern is how do you deal with that when you go out and combat, but how do you every day keep going and not let that ruin your life . While youre in there . Afterwards . Youve got to get home. Its one of those things they dont like down upon but they dont encourage you to seek mental help. When we get back, heres their situation. One day he might be overseas killing bad guys and 24 hours after that hes had our. No one knows when he leaves. No one knows when it comes back. The first thing you want to do is go have a bust and all that deployment the newly saved up and make some young grow rich. Jan girl rich. [laughter] but yeah, just getting help. Youre not stop for doing it. You have to let them know that. But definitely get help. It is going through something. Alcoholism is a big contributor to the suicide. I was selfmedicating for years. I remember waking up at 6 00 in the morning and drinking all the way unt