Welcome. Students, colleagues, guests, Justice Kagan, friends and family of roger wilken. Its my pleasure to welcome you all to the Second Annual Roger Wilkens lecture, which this year takes the form of conversation of Supreme Court Justice Elena kagan. My name is matt and an associate professor of policy and government and director of undergraduate program in philosophy, politics and economics. The program is honored to be the institutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkens lectures. We are grateful for the trust and support placed by the university. The attraction between the pgd ferdinand of these lectures im glad you asked. I spent a fair amount of time explaining what it is and what makes the program unique. I can go on. Really, i can go on but today im going to go straight to the bottom line. It explained that the scope helps students that create Better Solutions through the difficult and pressing problems that arise in the public life of the complex society. The problems tha
Welcome. Students, colleagues, guests, Justice Kagan, friends and family of roger wilken. Its my pleasure to welcome you all to the Second Annual Roger Wilkens lecture, which this year takes the form of conversation of Supreme Court Justice Elena kagan. My name is matt and an associate professor of policy and government and director of undergraduate program in philosophy, politics and economics. The program is honored to be the institutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkens lectures. We are grateful for the trust and support placed by the university. The attraction between the pgd ferdinand of these lectures im glad you asked. I spent a fair amount of time explaining what it is and what makes the program unique. I can go on. Really, i can go on but today im going to go straight to the bottom line. It explained that the scope helps students that create Better Solutions through the difficult and pressing problems that arise in the public life of the complex society. The problems tha
My name is matt and an associate professor of policy and government and director of undergraduate program in philosophy, politics and economics. Ppe here at george mason. The ppe program is honored to be the institutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkens lectures. We are grateful for the trust and support placed by the university. The attraction between the pgd ferdinand of these lectures im glad you asked. I spend a fair amount of time explaining what ppe is and what makes the program unique. I can go on. Really, i can go on but today im going to go straight to the bottom line. It explained that the scope helps students that create Better Solutions through the difficult and pressing problems that arise in the public life of a complex society. The problems that arise in the process in what Roger Wilkins in the first chapter of his autobiography had called with immense understatement complicated at times such as there are today. Ppe offers the foundation for students to build meani
Dedication with which it carries out its responsibility to congress under the budget act but the contents of this report are concerning. After eight years of failed fiscal policies and wasteful and unactable spending america is faced with a mammoth debt of 20 trillion and a sluggish economy thats holding it back. This year alone overspending is projected to be 559 billion and will continue to grow over the next ten years to 1,408 million, 1. 4 trillion in 2027. Its a 9,426 billion budget hole over the ten years. Gross National Debt will hit 30 trillion in ten years outpacing our projected Economic Growth. As Congress Considers our countrys budget over the next decade we must look beyond the annual appropriations process. Almost 70 of federal spending is already on auto pilot and that portion is growing rapidly. Cbo reports states that 70 of the total increase over the next ten years is from Social Security, medicare and net interest on americas debt. Social security taxes will stop pay
Dedication with which it carries out its responsibility to congress under the budget act but the contents of this report are concerning. After eight years of failed fiscal policies and wasteful and unactable spending america is faced with a mammoth debt of 20 trillion and a sluggish economy thats holding it back. This year alone overspending is projected to be 559 billion and will continue to grow over the next ten years to 1,408 million, 1. 4 trillion in 2027. Its a 9,426 billion budget hole over the ten years. Gross National Debt will hit 30 trillion in ten years outpacing our projected Economic Growth. As Congress Considers our countrys budget over the next decade we must look beyond the annual appropriations process. Almost 70 of federal spending is already on auto pilot and that portion is growing rapidly. Cbo reports states that 70 of the total increase over the next ten years is from Social Security, medicare and net interest on americas debt. Social security taxes will stop pay