If your answer is yes, you are ready to see pro sports again, your number is going to be 202 7488000. If your answer is no, it is too early to have pro sports again in the United States, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Keep in mind, you can always text us your answer at 202 we are always reading on social media, on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, pro sports are beginning and all professional leagues across the United States, with different leagues doing Different Things around the nation. We will start the show by telling you exactly what the pro leagues are doing, and this comes from our friends at the red and black. Major League Baseball started july 23 with a Washington Nationals losing 41 to the new york yankees. Game following a 60 regular season, the mlb will conduct an extended playoff for the 2020 season. The nfl has started making its plans for the upcoming season, with players in the league eliminating the 2020 preseason, instead o
With the Cato Institutes walter olson , here to talk about the recent surge of federal agents to chicago and other American Cities to combat crime. Walter, good morning. Guest good morning. Host for our viewers, tell us about the Cato Institute and where it gets its funding. A libertariant is t think tank located in washington, d. C. And is supported by thousands of individuals around the country who believe in limited government and constitutional government. Any oneot dependent on source of donations, and we do not take any government money at all. Episode,cent pandemic we have not taken any ppp money. Host talk about what is going on with federal Law Enforcement. The federal government has sent federal agents to do different places, one, in portland, oregon to work against protesters. Now there is a new initiative to fight crime in chicago and other cities, called operation legend. What do we need to know about this . Guest thank you for drawing the distinction between those two dif
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[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. And welcome to the auditorium and the Cato Institute. Appreciate your coming out today. This is a really important topic. The book forum for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks who are following this online, you can follow along on twitter atcato event or hash tag human cost of welfare. The u. S. Federal government last year spent roughly 688 billion to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. Federal state, local governments, rather, spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or 23 trillion fighting poverty. What have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you used the census bureaus numbers, poverty rates have barely budged and even if you use the al concern i. T. Poverty mea