Pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges talks about his book wages of rebellion next. He discusses the causes of revolution and resistance by looking at stories of rebels throughout history and examines what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hi there. Hi there. Can you guys hear me . Can you hear me in the back . Great. Im one of the owners here. Its great to see all of youd a labyrinth tonight. Welcome. Just a few practical things and then well get going. First, please turn off your cell phones if you havent done that already. Also our event season is islanding down but were planning great events for the fall so if you dont already get our email invite and would like to just leave us your email address on the back counter theres a signup sheet for that. In terms of the event tonight the logistics are i will do a very breath introduction, chris will speak and then there will be time for q a. I would just like to ask you w
Tracks where the derailment happened. Investigators also plan to examine video footage from forwardfacing cameras attached to the train. Tuesdays derailment is amtraks deadliest accident in 16 years. There are still some passengers unaccounted for. Eight others are in the hospital in critica condition. Its not known when service will be returned in the area. A bill in the state senate would eliminate personal belief exemptions. Kiet do has more on a bill thats been amended to improve senate passage. Reporter the Vaccine Mandate bill is fasttracking to sacramento and it could come up for a vote in the senate today. Antivaccination parents have been flooding the capital in recent weeks. They say the latest move is cheating the law making system. The authors of senate bill 277 amended it so it wont cost anything. They got rid of the portion that would have required schools to notify parents of vaccination rates. This allows the bill to skip the Appropriations Committee altogether saving t
T is uniform for everyone housing, some get it and some do not. In the case of health care, the very lowest are on medicaid. And then you have the problem of cost of insurance. Of whatpart of the cost the Affordable Care act deals with. As long as we have that kind of polarization of income, those costs will increase. Now that we are away from the issue of does the government stay open or not, we will get into the debate about what do we invest in . A National Institute of health, reform of how the money is going into food stamps . It seems like we will see a shift in the debate and how we are focusing our attention. Let me raise another issue. I think it is complicated. Less have the committees been doing their work. When they do do their work, they are overruled by central leadership. Projectittees produce a product and then they get vetoed by leadership. My observation is that it is not nearly leadership is not nearly as smart as they think they are. [laughter] this issue goes beyon
I would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. We have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms implicationscal for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. We have a terrific panel. I would like to introduce the panel. , he served gutknecht in 12 for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the United States house of representatives. , who servedin sabo for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973 1978. He went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. It passed a budget act that played a major role in the reduction of the deficits during the 1990s. Mine and colleague of teaches courses as well as working with us in some of our other programming. He was a representative in the minnesota house from 19792000 seven. He was also speaker
That does not you have to deal with long term entitlement costs and revenue. Any real solution will be a combination of the two. That has been the real holdup. President obama got hammered. The head of the House Republican Campaign Committee came out instantaneously and slammed him. He was quickly followed by progressives who saw this as another betrayal by the president. On the issue of longterm deficit challenges, medicare, Social Security, do you see trends in Health Care Spending or with reform that might provide some reason for caution in going too far in medicare . And how severe is the challenge on Social Security . I think Social Security is the least complicated of the two. Health care is much more difficult. The trends have been down lately. Whether that continues, i hope that is the case. That it reflects change in practice that slows that cost down. I am optimistic about that, but not certain. If that is the case, it would help immensely. What you need is to figure out how