[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, im glad to see our odeons survive the flashflood warnings. My michael green, senior vicepresident for asia and japan and professor at georgetown and as the csis host, i want to do our usual announcement. We survived the flashflood. If we need to evacuate its my responsibility to give you instructions and the general rule is well go out the way you came in and well make our way to either the national geographic, around the corner, or well go straight down rhode island to st. Matthews. Our expectation is half the people we go to starbucks at Dupont Circle but thats the plan. ll be very brief because ill have an opportunities to chair a discussion with our very distinguished panel of american and japanese retired senior military leaders. But i want to turn it over to my friend who has organized this military statesman forum to tell you about its intent, its purpose. Please. Thank you mike, thank you very much. Like to First Express my deepest appr
Good afternoon. Im glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. Im Michael Green, Senior Vice President for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. And as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. We survived the flash flood. If for any reason we need to evacuate, its my responsibility to give you instructions. And the general rule is well go out the way you came in and well make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or well go straight down rhode island to st. Matthews. Our expectation is half the people will go to starbucks at du pont circle, but thats the plan. Im going to be very brief because ill have the opportunity to chair a discussion with our very distinguished panel of american and japanese retired senior military leaders. But first i want to turn it over to my friend who has organized this military Statesmen Forum to tell you about its intent, its purpose and a bit about what they achieved. Please,
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups