communities when there are fears of a covid outbreak trying to cut them off from the rest of society and we re seeing a kind of piecemeal response from different cities, one city saying, okay, we ll reduce lockdown, lift them in some neighborhoods. another city saying, you don t have to get a covid test every 72 hours to ride public transport. these types of measures. but we are also seeing kind of the lengths that police will go to try to prevent organized shows of dissent calling a protester who participated in a protest in beijing sunday night, we heard a recording of this, with a police officer saying, we know you were at the protest because we detected your phone there, come down to the police station, we reoing to interrogate you. that shows you almost the paranoia that the security forces have about organized protest. but meanwhile the costs continue to add up for society.
military intervention in iraq, afghanistan and syria. you said that you gray edagreed the missile strike in syria, yet our military actions can drag us further into syria s civil war. how can the president attack a country then expect it to end there? once you start a military intervention, it will be a quagmire like in iraq. how will you work to prevent the united states from getting involved in a military quagmire in syria? yeah, well, first of all, i m really sorry about what you said. i have a friend with me tonight who actually went to the pentagon and was a lawyer to try to make sure that this problem of ptsd would be recognized. and he changed the system through the congress because of the work of one lawyer and a haful of no-name lawyers who said we reoing to fight for the military. now, let s talk a little bit about i don t like getting involved in civil wars. when ronald reagan was president, i voted against u.s.
12-city jobs tour. and so we ve gone across the country, to milwaukee, detroit, minneapolis, and we have gone to new york city, we reoing to have to miami, because we need to hear from the real folks. one lady in minneapolis stood up and said she s a wal-mart employee, a manager, makes $9.80 an hour, no benefits and says she carries three cards in her pocket. one is her wal-mart i.d., the second her discount card, and the third is a welfare card, a card so that she can partake of the basic social safety net that wal-mart refuses to grant to her, even though she is a manager and even though she is a valued employee by them. you wouldn t know it by the pay they give her. so we ve gotten outside of the beltway and we ll keep doing it. when i heard orrin hatch s statement today, i was quite frankly flabbergasted and amazed at how out of touch he must be. i mean, when is the last time this guy bagged a grocery or sat in a barbershop? doesn t he know that people are