Saying we need a bigger coast guard, how do you feel about the resource picture now that the fy 17 budget request is in . You mention several of the new major investment strings underway. The growth of the structure and the readiness picture. What most challenges you at this point and executing all of that . I am immensely pleased with our acquisition budget. On the other side we have our operations in maine is, what our operations and maintenance, would cost to do operations and people from under that funding portfolio as well. Were not keeping pace. In fact were fact were not even keeping pace with budget control funding levels. Where funded below that level to sustainer operation so its great that were modernizing, the sustaining piece is still a bit of a challenge for me. Thats work that i need to do in demonstrating how critical that is because lets face it, ive been to enough commissioning ceremonies now more than i have decommissioning ceremonies, thats a good thing, more births
Stoning if you happen to be gay. The government of brunei also stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of hillarys transpacific partnership, which she would absolutely approve if given the chance. Hillary clintons book, and just think of this, the book talks about it, but hillary took 25 million from saudi arabia, and much more from others where being gay is also punishable by death. Hillary took millions from many countries who horribly abuse women and the lggt siismt zents, to cover up the dealings, hillary el lylely stashed he state Department Emails on a private server. It seems like nothing is going to happen even though people who have done similar things but at a much lower level irtheir lives have been destroyed. Its a rigged system, folks, its a rigged system. Then there are the 33,000 emails that she deleted while we may not know whats in those deleted emails, our enemies probably know every single one of them. So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who
Miss kindle, i want you to weigh into this. You have a transcription . Or what was this interview with the director . We asked jarvis whether looking back he would have done anything differently, and he said, and then its quoted here, was that because its transcribed or was that a recording . A recording. When you asked about this by the Inspector General, this is what you said. Would i have done the same thing . Probably. I think i knew going into this there was a certain amount of risk. Ive never been afraid of risk. Ive gotten my ass in trouble many, many times by the park service, by not necessarily getting permission, ive always pushed the envelope. And then you go on from there. That is your quote, correct . That is my quote. And now youre apologizing because were essentially having a public hearing . No, i apologized a long time ago, long before this hearing. And i apologized directly to the secretary and to the leadership of the National Park service. And that was a mistake. An
Everyones information there will not be endorsements from the panelists today one important thing i want to clear up because i think it is important for context of this discussion is that the impression you have in organizations in working on this because in washington d. C. People say on the 6 00 news on the sunday talk shows where is the compromise . Where are the people in the middle that can split the baby and come up with legislation . I think that youre going to hear loud and clear from us but is this about compromise or is this about working towards shared values of principled people on both the left and the rig right . All the reasonable people thought this was the way to respond to everything. Left right coalitions and criminal Justice Reform have been successful. Work because curved led so if they led the same fight it wouldnt work. Im not sure i trust everybody but on a right Left Coalition there is no compromise on principles. We are working to do the same thing perhaps for
I do have a couple of suggestions that you may find useful as you go out there and conquer the world. Point number 1 when you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt. Take it with a grain of salt. We live in a great nation and we are rightly proud of our history. We are beneficiaries of the labor and the grit and the courage of generations who came before you. I guess its part of human nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty to want to look backwards and long for some imaginary path where everything worked and the economy hummed and all politics was wise and every child was well mannered and america did whatever it wanted around the world. Guess what . It aint so. The good old days were not all that good. Yes, there have been some stretches in our history where the economy grew much faster or when government ran more smoothly. There were moments when immediately after world war ii, for example, or the end of the cold war, when the world be