David. Thank you and thank you to all of you for being here. It is good to have you here. My colleagues are going to talk about specific policy issues in their area of we can per tease. Im going to open with more general, philosophical, political discussion. A lot of people believe that politics are a struggle for power and certainly if you look at history that is what politics is. It is the continuation of war by other means. It is a quest for power for your race, tribe, religion, region, whatever, your industry these days. Politics is a lot about power. But we always hope that some people in the discussion of politics and policy will stand for something bigger, something broader. Like the Public Interest, freedom and justice, the ideals of the declaration of the independence and the pledge of allegiance. We hope in washington thats what think tanks do. Think tanks are separate from abstracted from the daytoday struggles for either political power or special interests benefits from pu
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