They are not the same people dedicated to producing the light, sweet crude thats produced in the oil sector, for the most part. So if you offer discounts to asian consumers at large so that they become beholden to your type of oil and they build refineries specifically dedicated troo processing your type of oil its going to be harder for them to switch to somebody elses oil down the line. So it makes sense to keep the price a bit lower right now so that asian consumers build up refinery capacity for medium and heavy sour sulphur rich, saudi type oil, and you try and guarantee your market down the road when you will be putting on the brakes and sending prices back up. Okay, this is kind of thinking about the supply and demand side of the market, but there are other factors that we need to think about that i think people dont often like to consider. And that is that the saudis, the qataris and their friends in the gulf on the sunni side of the aisle have created a monster. By funding rad
His argument, as i interpret it, is the court cannot avoid making normative judgments about whether practices demean or humility humiliate or reduce people of a status of inferior caste, in violation of the sovereigns duty to govern impartially. In fact, cases have not delineated three or even one or two defined standards. Rather they recite that continuing of continuum of judgment responses. What is the best argument for 2 . That was the best answer before craig given by the Supreme Court. What were the two spheres of standards . Familiar strict scrutiny or fundamental right or deferential scrutiny when there was no such classification in play. We should remember it was a forced decision in dandridge and rodriguez, articulating 2 tiers that prompted Justice Marshall against rigid to tier analysis. What is the best argument for three . That is the best answer, given by the Supreme Court in crank. Where is the third standard intermediate standard for genderbased classifications. I will
On a Food Stamp Program is the right thing to do at all. Bill you know, unless they fix some of the things like that i do not know exactly what is going to happen, but i have heard the price of a gallon of milk could double or triple, and this is the wrong time for stuff like this to be going on. Reality think that the about the welfare system and welfare spending is that anytime a program is ostensibly cut, we have a huge amount of controversy about it, but when those programs are enlarged, nobody actually knows about it, and as a result of that, we have expanded, after adjusting for inflation, assistance for the poor, 20 fold since the beginning of the war on poverty. When we started the war on poverty, if you took all the antipoverty programs and added them together, . 50 was spent for every dollar that would be needed to eliminate poverty, and today we are spending close to 5. 50 for every dollar that is needed to eliminate poverty. The system is very large. When we talk about the
Epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy said earlier this month that Environmental Policies and regulations that affect the lives of americans need to be grounded in quality and transparent science. She testified before the House Science Committee which is chaired by congressman lamar smith of texas. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Science Space Technology will come to order. Welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled strengthening transparency and accountability within the Environmental Protection agency. Im going to recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for hers. The Environmental Protection agency like every other Governmental Institution should answer to the American People. Everyone agrees that we need to protect the environment but we should do so in a way that is open and honest. Democracy requires transparency and accountability. Yet the epas justifications for its regulations are cloaked in secret science. I
Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people that believe what we believe which happens to be the tea party in Haley Barbours case govern america or at least be obstructionist to american progress. They did it and they did pretty well 20 years ago. That is why we are in the mess we are in. One of the points that i made to democrats is listen im just speculating here but one of the challenges to taking back Congress Might be that they gerrymandered these districts so effectively after they did that its really tough to win and so if you ele