Townhall. Com parties. He talks about the Republican Partys relationship with young voters. Here is a look at what you will see tonight. Millennials are the biggest generation right now and the Republican Party is not super popular among men millennials the millennials and i think there are barriers that the face of the party will have to change. And on a couple issues, whether it is gay marriage, for example. Changesou start making to appeal to a new group of voters that think differently than their parents and grandparents come about alienating the parents and grandparents whose votes you rely on as your base to win elections right now . That is when the growing pains in the Republican Party that i will be fascinated to see how they handle that over the next, maybe not the next few years, but over the next decade or decade and a half. The current integration of the Republican Party i do not think would be a viable party in 20 years. Announcer the townhall Political Editor guy benson
Townhall. Com parties. He talks about the Republican Partys relationship with young voters. Here is a look at what you will see tonight. Millennials are the biggest generation right now and the Republican Party is not super popular among men millennials the millennials and i think there are barriers that the face of the party will have to change. And on a couple issues, whether it is gay marriage, for example. Changesou start making to appeal to a new group of voters that think differently than their parents and grandparents come about alienating the parents and grandparents whose votes you rely on as your base to win elections right now . That is when the growing pains in the Republican Party that i will be fascinated to see how they handle that over the next, maybe not the next few years, but over the next decade or decade and a half. The current integration of the Republican Party i do not think would be a viable party in 20 years. Announcer the townhall Political Editor guy benson
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
16 years, so outline specifically what you want to to do. Erik prince the president can pull out completely, which i think would be a bad idea. I think taliban and isis would end up taking over the country, and it would be a rallying cry for terrorists around the world that they have beat the United States. Or we could keep the way that we have been, we have now spent almost 1 trillion, now more than the entire Defense Budget the of the u. K. , just in afghanistan. More than 2000 american soldiers wounded dead, 20,000 plus wounded. Healthcare costs from that war will be 1 trillion on top of it. At secretary mattis said that we are not winning. The terrorist forces control almost half the country as it is now, so clearly this current strategy is not working. I tried to take a step back, and the reason i wrote restructuring, is to say, lets pare away the incremental decisions that we had. We have had 17 different commanders in 16 years. There has not been a unity of command. When i say y
My grandparents had the other room. John said you can change all of that through business ownership, and he was so right. One of the reasons why, as you uncover my opportunity agenda in washington d. C. , that i focus so much on the entrepreneur is because ive experienced first hand that when the government steps back and entrepreneurs step in, all things change, that a good economy makes all things possible. The question is what makes a good company. So my opportunity agenda focuses on how do we create a good economy. We all know that tax reform and Regulatory Reform are necessary, key ingredients to that good economy. I cant hire more people and pay higher taxes and have higher regulations at the same time. I can do two out of the three. If you want me as an entrepreneur hiring more people, we have to reduce the cost of doing business. I know you guys in this room are fans of obamacare. Good, good, good. Obamacare spends too much, taxes too much, and it destroys the best Healthcare S