Harry truman. As someone who believes passionately in the importance of americas global leadership, i have a natural love and affinity for harry truman. But my affection for him is rooted in something more basic. He was my First American president. My family and i arrived in america november 11, 1948. A week after he narrowly beat his opponent in 1948. That was some time ago. In fact, i tell my students now that i went to college about halfway between the invention of the ipad in the discovery of fire. [laughter] ms. Albright so, it was much later when i became secretary of state and the question arose as to where to hold a particular ceremony. The event was to mark naitos decision natos decision to include . I cannot think of a more appropriate place than the truman president ial library in independence, missouri, a place devoted to the man whose vision is responsible for nato. As i stood there, i was so excited that i cannot help to use in old czechoslovakia expression, hallelujah. [
Rooted in something more basic. He was my First American president. My family and i arrived in america november 11, 1948. A week after he narrowly beat his opponent in 1948. That was some time ago. In fact, i tell my students now that i went to college about halfway between the invention of the ipad in the discovery of fire. [laughter] ms. Albright so, it was much later when i became secretary of state and the question arose as to where to hold a particular ceremony. The event was to mark naitos s decision too include . I cannot think of a more appropriate place than the truman president ial library in independence, missouri, a place devoted to the man whose vision is responsible for nato. As i stood there, i was so excited that i cannot help to use in old czechoslovakia expression, hallelujah. [laughter] ms. Albright i was equally excited to hold a ceremony in washington to formally rename this building in honor of president truman. In 2002, i was honored to be asked to serve this fou
I can add on both of those, just take that as another example and what is uncertainty. That matters a lot. You can get different results. You need to have that on the bigger issue of uncertainty and ambiguity, one of the things we havent talked about at all is what the view of the nation should be regarding uncertainty. When you move away from the standard and expected framework or even within that we have to have the government be riskaverse. Once you move into areas where there is not ambiguity and this shows up in Climate Change policy, we have to take a 0 3pvstand. My Technical Work goes in analysis of social policy. You have to take a stance of what the right answer is. Thats as well. Im interested in that point. There may be circumstances where the government is in the National Interest to respond to uncertainty by taking action now. I have a paper that came up with the journal on the effect of infrastructure. The big uncertainty is whats the effect of government spending. I cran
Welcome. As you all know, a campaign has a long job interview. We will be approaching this debate as an interview. We have selected a series of questions dealing with the most salient issues of our time and we will hear where the candidates stand. Is going to be that each candidate will have two minuss for a remark, two two minutes for a closing statement. All of the questions in mind section of the process were selected by me alone. We will take some questions from the students in the audience. We have ushers walking through now reading paper. We asked students write their name in the year they are here at osu. Is that willn it review those questions and bring me the top three. With that, lets start with our opening statement. Based on the coin toss, the state senator Connie Johnson will be going last. Start withord will your opening statements. Thank you. It is my honor to be here. The folks that are here in this room. It is a privilege to be here. We carry a responsibility to our st
In the past he has supported a sales tax on services. I would like you to address the cuts in kansas and revenue issue. Tax dont agree with the policies put in place in kansas. I have advocated we look at our entire tax code in illinois and reform our entire tax code to make us more competitive. We have got to grow our economy. Bycannot solve our problems raising taxes on families. We need to grow. We need a progrowth tax code. Rapidly growing states have a broad base and low rates. I believe we should keep the rates down but rod in the base. We should expand sales tax to include services that are more business oriented rather than on low income families. We need to close tax loopholes. We need to modify ontaxes should be available ability to pay. , everyday people are going to have to pay a tax on garbage pickup, or does they adopt a child. Those are on their taxes. Myople who are not opponents plan will give himself a 1 billion tax cut. It will shift the burden. That is not right. We