[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Thank you for coming. Im liz huettel, Deputy Director of event at politics prose book store. We are were in at the throes of another dynamic season of events. Please check out our webs for more information weapon also host event at our book store and we offer wide range of cultural tripsliterary classes and book clubs, please stop by and visit us. But tonight we have the honor of welcoming leon panetta. Mr. Panetta has a long and storied career as a public servant. In 1976, he was elected u. S. Congress, where he represented californias 16th 16th Congressional District for 16 years. He acted as president clintons director or the United States office of management and budget and then as his chief of staff from 1994 to 1997. He founded the leann and Sylvia Panetta institute for Public Policy, and in 2009, he became the director of the Central Intelligence agency. From 2011 to 2013 he was the 23rd United States secretary of
Beating fannie and freddie can be reconstructed and how in one . And you think its ironic that some of the institutions he had been treating favorably are now suing you. I do think it is ironic. You know, this is a recipe that most people view as way too generous and unjust and unfair and yet the government is being sued for making too much money for the taxpayer on the largest and most riskiest things that we did in these cases the institutions and i think that they will be reformed . Yes, at some point, i do. And i think that it will take a while because you cant really do anything now and its a very risky reform because as he written about alec it was part f the coalition of wellintentioned housing advocates and banks. A pretty powerful coalition a little bit of Left Progressive market and we called it the housing Industrial Complex and they had a strong grip on the local system. So i always felt the least when i was there that its not good to rush this because if you tried to rush
The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Last week, the scientist david suzuki was here to tell us what he thinks should happen to politicians who ignore or deny evidence that the earth is heating up. Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. Its an intergenerational crime. The problem is, if
Heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. If i told you that sovereign powers were about to put a toll booth on the street that leads from your house to the nearest interstate, allowing your richest neighbors to buy their way to the open road while you were sent to the slow lane, you would no doubt be outraged. Well, prepare to scream bloody murder, because Something Like that could be happening to the internet. Yes, the internet. Your internet. Our internet. The electronic Public Square that ostensibly allows everyone an equal chance to be heard. This democratic highway to cyberspace has thrived on the idea of Net Neutrality that the internet should be available to all without preferential treatment. Without preferential treatment. But Net Neutrality is now at risk. An
The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Charter schools are booming, and controversial. There are now more than 6,000 across the country, double the number from just a decade ago. Theyre publicly funded, but privately run. And whatever you think about the merit of Charter Schools versus Public Schools, merit is no longer driving the debate. Whats driving the debate is money. The Charter Movement is now part of the growing privatization of Public Education and wall street sees an emerging market. Take a look at this piece published last fall on forbes. Com. Quote, dozens of bankers, hedge fu