of money off this commodity that people could readily make for themselves if they were allowed to but they were instead forced to buy it. at a premium. almost 50 years after the salt tax law was passed mahatma gandhi chose that as a protest. everybody needed salt. everybody hated the stupid rule that only served to make money for britain offer the backs of regular indian people so gandhi in 1930 he led a 24-day march from his ashram to the sea and when he got to the sea he defiantly made salt thus freaking out the whole british empire. and delighting and inspiring indians who treated this as a starting gun to not only start making their own salt and defying that stupid expensive rule but also to disobey british rule more broadly. the salt march. it was the first of many but in that first month 1930 what
forces in movement and what we have seen here says we are facing a relatively modest number of fighters who emerge in urban environment and then move on to the next target. they may be content to remain where they are, consolidate their gains and not provide a high profile that could be dealt with by air power projected off of the u.s. george h.w. bush or off of bases in kuwait or saudi arabia. just quick as would send message around the world and stiffen the backs. we are not expecting al qaeda to surrender. you are right they will behind behind the civilians as they always do. inaction, no action i think would be a disaster for this country. total disaster. i do think we have to avoid becoming the air force. presence guide iraqis on the ground. if we had a residual force
that s right. so the murray-ryan deal basically decreased the amount of pension increases for the future of veterans. it tried to balance the budget on the backs of veteran, which our organization came out against very forcefully. what the bernie sanders deal does is addresses that and that s great. and it does a lot of other wonderful things. the problems it piles on $30 billion of additional spending at v.a. and elsewhere and it doesn t a, have a plan to pay for it. b, takes from war funds to pay for it. and c, it was going to overwhelm likely the v.a. system that as we talked about many times, is already up to its neck in how do i address this? we want to work with other organizations working on this. but right now the v.a. is pretty much only for those with disability. some level of service connected to disability. this would broaden it so broad that any veteran of any time who served at any point could have access, which i m not who has opposition to that? i don t. but if yo
department of veteran affairs and at that moment benefits are retroactive. the va will create a standardized complex form that must be filled out correctly when submitted in order for that process to start. it is put on the backs of veterans and general omar bradley of world war ii fame, he had a test that said he would give to his employees. we are dealing with veterans and not procedures and dealing with their problems and not ours. this new change violates that. it is a procedure that brakes down customer service that doesn t exist in the va and trying to solve the problems of the department of veterans affairs on the backs of veterans hoisting responsibility on them. you think the administration wants to hurt veterans? no tis top down bureaucratic solution to a department that is mired in bureaucratic. that can be true we need
chris christie got way ahead of his supply lines, that it was presidential candidacy fueled on headlines, not a lot of personal relationships. sort of a lone wolf out there. i think we saw the consequences of that and if he is self-aware, david, politically, he probably needs to go around and start patting a lot of people on the backs and playing the game a little bit more, wouldn t you think? yeah. well, i think the whole point of his taking the republican governors association chairmanship was to give him an opportunity to do that. he hadn t had that opportunity yet. so there weren t those close relationships that you guys are talking about. i want to go back to what donny deutsche said. i really think it s important. i thought he was very good yesterday in his press conference. i thought he handled it about as well as could be handled. but the one thing thank you he