Weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today he is a ph. D. Earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth texas, what year was that . It was a while ago. He is an expert so if you get an opportunity to take a class with him take a class so we are going to continue to discuss the civil war thankfully for doctor kine or we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impact on the war so without further ado i will hand the close over to doctor kin or a center. Thank you. The theme for todays lecture is going to be about technology of warfare. A lot of our classes we deal with the politics of warfare and just the historical record of warfare but in a lot of it comes down to the individual whos in the field and the weapons that they were issued because that is what you need for warfare. But one thing that i found fascinating in research was looking at the early 19th century, 1800 up ti
Sustaining forces. But its no time to rest on our laurels. We have many others pressed that now is the time to keep the progress going, keep moving forward and not to expect the trend will continue, but to get ahead of it and keep moving down the path. I think from our good, certainly after the economic downturn, we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs and medicine. Do we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The unchecked prediction as to be 25 of gdp by 2025. Now is the time to impact occurs. Although lucena moderation in growth were recently, we have seen a spike again. So i agree it is time to really focus after as part of the implementation of the Affordable Care to really focus on cost. Agreement on the send . Yes, i think so. One of the concerns be seen as slowing the rate of growth in that occur in particular, we have allowed vb programmers in the medicare system right now. 65, 66 years old relatively low utilizers at the population as a whole. 15 years or not, baby bo
To pay for increases in premiums. We are having tradeoffs and what we would invest in and infrastructure education, and art. Our Public Employees have not had raises and five years. It is challenging every sector of our economy. Marilyn, it is not good to see that medicare costs are way down. That is not subject to the same Market Forces. It is no time to rest on our laurels. We have brookings, Bipartisan Policy Center, they have pressed that now is the time to keep moving forward and not expect that trend will continue. To get ahead and keep moving down the path of cost control. From our perspective, the blues after the economic downturn we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs in medicine. What we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The untaxed a prediction is that it will be increased by 2025. Now is the time to impact that curve. We have seen a spike again. I agree, it is time to really focus on, after the implementation as part of the implementation of the Affordable Car
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