Military balance with indiana. He could find that Tipping Point where instead of india, pakistan start focusing more and terrorism is the problem. Can you hear me quiet makes working . Thank you for being here. Quick background. Thank you for the introduction. Thank you to salem state for having me and arranging all this. Really appreciate it. As you mentioned, my fathers have white, half black. He thought of the korean vietnam wars. He retired as a command sergeant major. He had a lot of work trauma. I grew up in alabama quarter black, quarter white and half korean. I got was some issues of racism and olene. My mother lived in japan in world war ii and in the korean war. I graduate from west point, was deployed to baghdad and now i work fulltime for peace. I want to begin by asking all of your question. Develop you follow the 2012 election pretty closely . The 2012 election was a close president ial race, right . They came down to the president ial debate. At that point, neither candi
The committee did their work. It was in the full committee. What are your views on this issue . Well, congressman, i think it is important to point out that we approach the institute of medicine to ask for advice on how to structure a system that will provide assistance at a women, infant and children. They took the job seriously and said we should focus on food were products that would that were healthy and not normally used by women, infant and children. The issue with potatoes and the average american consumes 90 pounds of potatoes a year, it is like 88. 7 pounds of potatoes. So the institute believed it would be appropriate to focus on vegetables that were not consumed at the same level of quantity and wanted us to focus on green, orange and red vegetables which we have done in the wic program. The report says we have nothing against potatoes but this is a Supplemental Program and that is why they are not included and we focus on more alternatives that are not purchased by women fo
Problems our countrys facing. So we need, we need good military people, good veterans in areas of our country who have that idea of Servant Leadership and service to others and who care more about doing the right thing than whats popular and who care more about integrity than things that mislead people into dangerous territory. So i just hope that if you want to talk to me afterward, im here for a while. So feel free to come talk to me afterward. And its almost 12 30. The last point i want to make, i have a web site, peacefulrevolution. Com. I work in santa barbara, california, our mission is to abolish nuclear weapons, so i teach a 40hour course in peace leadership and waging peace, waging peace skills are life skills, and in this critical point in human history, we need leaders who have the servant mentality, who are willing to oppose injustice, push our country and Planet Forward because so much is at stake now. I offer peace training in different areas. If youre interested, my web
Billion in crops. Billionl protect 165 in livestock, poultry, and specialty crops as a result of this budget. Ag will continue to support 140 billion in agricultural exports which helps to support one million jobs at home. The food and nutrition Assistance Programs will benefit nearly 47 million americans under the snap program. 8. 7 women, infant and children under the wic program. Thellion children under summer feeding programs. The food safety budget will provide assistance in detecting our food supply and reducing foodborne illnesses by estimated 52,000 illnesses. Nrcs will provide conservation assistance that will add 23 million acres of land to our conservation programs, helping half a million producers do a better job of conserving soil and protecting water. While it is not related to this budget, it does have an impact on this budget. Our overall budget will also million acres of forest and grasslands under the u. S. Forest service, which will protect 70,000 communities that ar
Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren