Florida and the boat lift of 1980. The first 20 days, discuss how the state of florida handled the arrival of over 30,000 cuban refugees in key west in less than a month. The authors discussed the socalled mary aletos the first wave of over 120,000 cuban immigrants in 1980 and the impact theyd had on the political and social culture in florida. This session from the bob graeme center of Public Service from the university of florida is about an hour. Welcome to the bob graham center. Thanks for being here this evening. Youve got a very Interesting Program for you on mare yall and we have three great fine scholars and speakers here this evening with us. I want to thank our partners for the collaboration with us on this event tonight. Im the director of the bob graham center. And our speakers this evening are kathleen. Their book is entitled florida and the poet lift of 1980. And they will discuss the political, legal, and administrative response to the crisis and recount how local and st
Methodist journal wrote above all else as i see it is the Social Security program for the first time in history we have a National Administration seeking to realize practically all of the churches. The catholic protestants and jews. For the religious leaders like this one the state represented a prodigious achievement, not in an apartment. A few clergy began to express concerns that would go more a spread by the late 30s especially in the white protestants. One mississippi presbyterian and selfproclaimed southern democrat held on the Community Members that now had some place else to go. When they once had Community Contact for the cooperation and the incident implemented they now look to the government for everything. Now its possible federal aid made it easy for some families to disconnect for middleclass churches where they felt out of place. Now they have options other than the local paternalism and they questioned the new deal to express the alarm and outrage. It grew during the 19
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Improving quality for health care. But to the extent we want it to happened to make sure the incentives are right but for decades they have not been aligned. There is an opportunity here to save Small Businesses a lot of money to grow more rapidly. Just very briefly defied the incentives. For years the primary symptom is that it is such a powerful point if you look at one mans cost or another mans revenues of the cost that you pay if you compare our performance versus other industrialized countries you spend 60 percent more than other countries but you dont see better quality measures or outcome so the incentives the opportunity to modify those incentives by the act and the contract being that it encourages is profound but what you see is hospitalization come down but that means they glad of business and that is a real challenge to say that is not a good thing but it can accommodate the extra volume with those spee mori efficient if they become more efficient than this model can work.
Senator Bernie Sanders is our guess. On talk to al jazeera. We appreciate you being with us. People have tried to describe your political leanings. Can you explain to us what your political ideology and philosophy is . Politically im an independent, which means im elected not as a democrat not a republican but independent on the ballot. Thats always been the case. I was first elected in 1981, in fact defeating a democrat incumbent in the city of burlington. Thats my political label. Im now longest serving independent in the history of the United States congress. Politically i am or ideal okay cli im a socialist. What does that mean . It means we have enormous problems in this country in terms of income and equality. And i want this nation to be a country in which all people have at least a minimum standard of living and where we dont have the kind of incredible gaps between the very, very rich and everybody else that we currently have. So being a democratic socialist means everybody sh