addiction is a central fact of american life. something is wrong. the last think i think we can agree on this country needs, more things to get hooked on. but recently house judiciary committee gave bipartisan backing to something called moore act which would spend taxpayer funds to subsidize marijuana source, believe it or not. brian brenberg is an associate professor at king s college who recently talked to them about this. i will leave the kind of metaphysical questions to the audience, why would congress do this if they cared about the country, but let me just ask you a more discrete question. is this a good idea economically? is there evidence this will make us a stronger country economically? well, it will only make the country stronger economically good for businesses, good for the people, but the fact is, we are talking about subsidizingl businesses that many people in this country are fundamentally
so again, i don t know that that s exactly what s being proposed. my simple point is this, i think democrats in the senate and the house are prepared to talk about anything. i m prepared to talk about anything. they can design whatever formats they want. what is not fair and will not result in an actual deal is ransom taking or hostage taking an the expectation the democrats are paying a ransom or providing concessions for the moore act of reopening the government or paying our bills. those are not things that you do for me and they are not things that you do for the democrats. is there a point where it s not necessarily a concession, it is you would negotiate what the negotiations are going to look like, you don t have to agree to overturn obama care, but you