China and india because theyre large, big countries. But theres absolutely no intent on challenging soa. The chinese are building up forces and we have to watch that and asked for greater transparency. But theyre doing too good a job selling it to us. And so while i watch china with great interest as a professional manner, im not up to be china is going to become an enemyfg because it got nowhere been our enemy in the past and have gotten very far by not being counting the enemy. If you read the consequences as interest we need to have a clear idea of who would be taking over to power. With respect to iran, we need to put pressure on them. They are not going to give up their Nuclear Program easily. We have been trying to do this for eight or nine years. They keep insisting that its just for the production of power. But i have seen some of the things that have evolved. So you cant trust them. The solution may well be okay, if all you want is power, lets talk about how you can do that i
By calling. If you want to reach out on social media, you can do so off of twitter. 15 saying worried, 10 optimistic and you can send an email. The headlines were the inspiration for the question. When it comes to economic related matters the wall street journal on the jobs record. Tepid job growth fuels worry. We will highlight the use of the word worry. And in New York Times job creation is still steady despite worry. They talk about the jobs report. Turning to wall street and stock market, here is the Financial Times take, wall street ends at highest level since the financial crisis. Other stories talk about wall street saying wall street ends with a bang. If you want to look at the housing industry another indicator when it comes to the economy, the real Estate Section of the Washington Post this morning framework for renaissance is how they talk about a story looking at a reis surgeons not only resurgence in building and buying. We will read some of the stories as we go along. We
But one of the many things that we can look at as legislatures and governors is licensing as a barber or a mechanic you have to get licensed and you cant get a license if youve been in prison. Its just seriously broken trying to help these people when they get out. Why should the fact when youre prison years ago prevents you from being a barbers license. What about the permanence of guest as many of you point out, you go away from five or 10 years, and you missed the digital revolution. You may not know how to use the web, any things all of us take for granted. The world has passed you by. It is it it is a difficult thing to try to gure out how to catch up. Host what is available in the prison system, it goes to that idea. To help that transition out. Guest a lot of the money being spent to build new prisons could be spent on helping these people get back into the community and earn a job. Points. E some good i was in the womens prison a few months ago. The woman i was in there with, s
From a french company. They get 30 they dont even pay tax on. We have to run a country. I think simpsonbowles is the right direction, but i dont think simpsonbowles goes far enough. At one time i thought steve forbes idea was great, but he wants to keep a certain piece of money that is an entitlement. Guest and makes a very good point that we have got to have the kind of progrowth tax reform that simplifies the system, broadens the base, lower rates, but that stimulates Economic Growth and economic development. That means not only getting people back to work but it is the growing economy that creates more revenue, not higher taxes. The growth and the revenues from growth is what we really need to address the deposition and debt. Often we dont focus on that enough in the scoring, like the cbo, Congressional Budget Office scoring you see all the time, the revenue from growth is not factored in. In anything we put together a, like we just made the lower tax rates permanent for 99 of all t
This week on the communicators, gordon smith who is the president of National Association of broadcasters. Our guest reporter is paul kirby. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How has it changed . Keep on coming. They tend to be major issues affecting both the radio and television, but it clearly on the radio side the issue of Performance Rights and performance tax or however you describe at, and ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive and both the digital platform cant, with a model that actually grows music and works for both. Right now, one has an unsustainable Business Model and the other works for radio. On the other hand, we did to work we the to work also. Thatu provide a rate simply destroys local radio, that is a bad inc. We cannot stand by idly for that. A lot contractual negotiations are going on for our major members like Clear Channel are doing deals with labels and the market is starting to develop in that regards. On the television side, t