he writes about it in his new book, the debt bomb. we have talked about the culture here in the senate. the poster child is that you mention is the bridge to nowhere, with the senate floor, taking issue with it. that culture is right here. i mean, the american people are having a real hard time changing that culture, it s so inbred. there are two cultures, there is the parochial, putting my state ahead of the best interest of the country. i understand that, that s part of the political culture. but the fact is, what we are here for is to make sure the country s okay. i would posit that oklahoma can t be healthy if the country isn t healthy. same with alaska and every other state. the second culture is not facing up to what the real problems are and putting your career of not making difficult decisions so you protect your career, rather than making the difficult
fast and loose with the rules. he writes about it in his new book, the debt bomb. we have talked about the culture here in the senate. the poster child is that you mention is the bridge to nowhere, with the senate floor, taking issue with it. that culture is right here. i mean, the american people are having a real hard time changing that culture, it s so inbred. there are two cultures, there is the parochial, putting my state ahead of the best interest of the country. i understand that, that s part of the political culture. but the fact is, what we are here for is to make sure the country s okay. i would posit that oklahoma can t be healthy if the country isn t healthy. same with alaska and every other state. the second culture is not facing up to what the real problems are and putting your career of not making difficult decisions so you protect your career, rather than making the difficult
the democrats are fighting for hardworking people, out of work time, the middle class. alex is right. you have people you have folks in the congress pursing their own parochial. they thought jimmy carter was going to lose and we lost the united states senate. i think it s time for the democrats to say, especially in congress, the president put down a jobs bill. it s a serious piece of legislation. let s stop playing legislative patty cake with it. let s get behind them. this may have to be a hair retrue man campaign harry truman case. when the question was, do you think we would be better off with john mccain and mckab probably would be stronger than
currency rather than adopting the new euro were seen as old fashioned, parochial, reactionary, and out of sync with the new world. that was then. but over the past year or two, britain s position has begun to look pretty sensible. the euro has obvious benefits. no more worrying about dozens of currencies going up and down. but given how it was set up, it also has many flaws. let s take a look at them through the prism of one country, greece, the poster child of the euro s problems. when it first joined the euro zone, it rode a wave of excellent economic growth, about 4% a year for eight years. that s more than germany, more than the u.s. finally, greece had a solid currency and was able to borrow lots of money at low interest rates. but that was the problem. it wasn t really greece s currency. the european central bank in frankfurt was setting rates. tiny greece wasn t even a factor. so athens borrowed and spent like crazy, creating a little welfare state paradise of its own.
had chosen to keep their own currency rather than adopting the new euro were seen as old fashioned, parochial, reactionary and out of sync with the new world. that was then. but over the past year or two, britain s position has begun to look pretty sensible. the euro has obvious benefits. no more worrying about dozens of currencies going up and down. but given how it was set up, it also has many flaws. let s take a look at them through the prism of one country, greece. the poster child of the euro s problems. when it first joined the euro zone, it rode a wave of excellent economic growth, about 4% a year for eight years. that s more than germany, more than the u.s. finally, greece had a solid currency and was able to borrow lots of money at low interest rates. but that was the problem. it wasn t really greece s currency. the european central bank in frankfurt was setting rates. tiny greece wasn t even a factor. so athens borrowed and spent like crazy, creating a little