Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. That can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies. Those that are put in place offense fo
Good morning and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. I am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. Here at the Heritage Foundation. I ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called Big Government policies that hurt the poor. And how to address them. United states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another. We have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over 1 trillion. That can be in things like healthcare, directing supports of one kind or another. We are not really here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies
Understand that and we should draw lessons from what we are seeing in iraq to that as we move forward. Thank you. Thank you very much, senator ayotte. Mr. Donnelley. Thank you, mr. Chairman. It is an honor to have you serve and lead our country. General odierno i was privileged to serve with ike skelton. He was the model of how to serve with dignity, humble, hard working, incredibly smart. As i know you know his reading list was also required reading for the rest of us, as well. The question i have is in this ties in admiral green to a conversation we once had. You mentioned earlier today about at one time paying benefits was 1 3, looks like its heading to 2 3. For each of you, what is about the proper balance in terms of those kind of costs around Everything Else . General amos you mentioned its at 70 now. What is the right balance for each of your forces . General odierno, if you would like to start . Best case we want personnel costs to be somewhere between 42 and 45 of our total bu
Even if it had a storied history that was offending a sizable group of people, id think about changing it. But i dont want to detract from the wonderful redskins fans that are here. They love their team, and rightly so come it even though they have been having a tough time this year. Think all these mascots and team names related to native americans, native americans feel pretty strongly about it it i dont know whether our attachment to a particular name real, override the legitimate concerns that people have about these things. But, i dont have a stake in this in the sense of them not a part owner of any Football Team. And now we want to include you in the conversation about whether or not the Washington Redskins name should be changed. 202 is the area code. Native americans, we want to hear from you as well. Finally, for redskins fans, we have a line set aside, two 02 58538 83. Should the Washington Redskins . The d. C. Anged Council Passed a resolution asking redskins to change thei
We are very much alive and how africanamerican voters are driving that change. We know joe. But most importantly, joe knows us. Live from studio 6a in Rockefeller Center, all in starts right now. Thank you hello, new york. Hello, 30 rock. Good to have me here. Welcome. It has been a huge week in the democratic president ial primary. The field has completely changed down to two people. Were going to talk about that. But i want to start with the story that has been basically dominating the headlines, and rightfully so, which is, of course, the coronavirus. A lot of anxiety out here, and im not here, i want to be clear, to freak people out. But heres the thing. Consider this. How does anyone, you, me, Vice President pence know how to handle a situation if we dont know the full scope of the problem we face . In fact, when it comes to any difficult problem that any policy maker faces, you cannot solve the problem if you do not properly know the scope. And we have had three months, three mon