All right, time. Did everybody get it . Okay if you are still figuring it out i wont tell. But let me just close by saying this. We are so inundated i think with news of mayhem and mishap and war and disease. I think sometimes we forget how much good work is being done day in and day out by a lot of good people who just care about their kids, care about their communities. In your districts i know there are extraordinary teachers and principals who are putting everything they have got into making sure our kids are getting a great education and we have parents who are stepping up in volunteering and helping to make those schools work. So as you disburse one message i want you to deliver to all of them from the white house from the president of the United States is even if you are not getting a lot of attention, even if you are not making a lot of headlines what you were doing every single day is making the biggest possible difference in the lives of this country and i couldnt be prouder
Made the case, the leadership case for more defense spending in reaction to, i think, a world of rising threats. The pentagons making the case that they need to tread water. Theyre not increasing. Is there anything we can do, the members of the electorate, people in different districts congressional districts, senatorial districts . Can we make any difference or are we just having the conversation so we can educate people for the next administration in is there something we can do right now . I think thats the question every panelist would love to hear, i mean, it really, truly is the right question. Im going the let you guys take the first stab at that. Well, i was going to say that, i mean a little bit of Political Party analysis whats blocking greater defense spending . Obviously, now we have the democrats control the white house, republicans have majority but not a vetoproof, certainly not a vetoproof or a filibusterproof in the senate. And i think if you listen to a lot of Armed S
Here today, thats an increase of over 70 . Debt now represents 101 of the g. D. P. Lets put this in context, americans owe more money than the value of all the goods and services that are produced right here in the United States in one year. That level of debt quite honestly is unsustainable. Is nt just me saying that. C. B. O. Says our high and rising debt would have serious negative consequences on the economy and the federal budget. Admiral mike mullen said, the single biggest threat to our National Security is the debt. America is faced with two paths. One to continue down the path of blissful neglect or on the other path to seek an honest solution to it. Instead of solving our debt problems, president obama has committed to exacerbating them. The president s budget would add 8. 5 trillion to our already staggering debt. But despite new taxes in addition the obamas budget never ever balances. It is a vision that confines our children and grandchildren to heavy debt and tax burdens.
Talks about becoming a lawyer and the cases hes handled the past 50 years. This program is next on book tv. [applause] welcome, everybody. Its delightful in a remarkable way for the two of us to be here. I feel as if you ought to be tutoring me for one of our final exams which you used to do. We have known each other for over 50 years as you have just heard and i dont know how that came to be, but you said in your book that you were a dreadful student until you went to college and in secondary school you were a disaster. What turned it around . I dont know it. I wish i knew. I was a scene and the student. I have in my book an actual photograph of my senior semester report card with a 60 in physics with a red circle, math a red circle, 65 in history and i managed to squeeze 80 in english so i had a 67 average and i was actually suspended from the four City Basketball Team of four athletic deficiencies but for athletic deficiencies and i went to the jewish Parochial School and my princip
Encouragement from her brother price, she was on the track. She was from the dayton area and was born here 1927 and spent most of her life in the area. She was just a phenomenon unto herself. There had never been anybody quite like her. And she was known to everybody just as erma. She was everybodys friend, everyones soul sister. Everyone felt the the new erma and they did pretty much. She told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960 s through the 1990s. She wrote mainly humor and was humor that was accessible to everyone because it was humor that happened in everybodys lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column because funny things happen to us all the time but we have to be out on the lookout for them and she was the one that focus our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts but when you look back you think that was really