for more information about this weekend s 48-hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. coming up next on booktv, sister simone campbell, author of a talking nun on a bus. she talks about the bus tour she and a group of roman catholic nuns launched to talk about the budget proposal. this is a little under ab hour. an hour. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. i want to go ahead and ask us to find a seat. so we can get started. while the 2014 community action partnership annual convention actually technically starts this afternoon with our general opening plenary session at one, we have, actually, a very special guest and a great opportunity for those of us who are here and able to make it here early. it s a great pleasure for me to be a part of introducing a friend of community action to you to engage in an interview of sorts. we ll first hear some of the thoughts and the heart of our guest, and then afterwards we ll have an opportunity for s
for this to occur. and so the idea sounds great, but how do you get people to relinquish their powers and sampling to give it up to the intellectuals and to the people that have the best experience and can do this kind of thing to make it work. i would say that in democracies around the world, you are seeing this. look at qadhafi, look at where assad is now. and people in the streets are now beginning to either vote in the ballot box or vote in this square in some way. i m thinking about iraq and you said that they have to have a purpose. but they are so dysfunctional they are just waiting to survive, that is what their purpose is today. we just saw the iraqis get rid of him. we see the elections, whoever is in offices the people who choose. but that system has so many political parties with the need to form political parties, it s a dysfunctional democratic system. but the more political parties they are, look at how bad it is with us. you have a situation where it s e
it is not true. republicans want a good education for every single child in america. we should measure how much we care about education by how much we spend. but how much students learn. wasted onwe see money the priorities of teachers unions, not children. education is too important to let policies be dictated by special interests. education is key to opening doors of opportunity and for fighting poverty. it brings us to principle number eight. the best anti-poverty program is a strong family and a good job. our focus should be on getting people out of poverty by lifting up all people and helping them find work. we need an effective the safety net. the federal government anti-poverty programs have become mismanaged and ineffective. we should restructure and consolidate them, give them more power to the states and actually measure the results. doing this same thing get the same result. 45 million of our fellow americans are living in poverty. as my friend and my congressman p
things like it is many jobs as we said, that s wrong. total private-sector job growth of oure time administration is much more than 60,000. sure we should be more efficient. yes we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. when i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the largest apartment spending 18% of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. i m sorry to cut you off. now onto the rebuttal phase. mr. foley. governor brought up his experience in stamford. the thing that bothers me most inut governor malloy s term stamford is that it was the city in connecticut with the largest achievement gap and he did nothing about it. he may talk about being interested in improving education but while he had the opportunity and one of connecticut s largest cities with the biggest educational challenges, he was not up to the task. he was also investigated for corruption while he was mayor and he leaves that ou
and here on c-span, our life running except that newbies our life programming except that newbies did. noon eastern. president obama travels to princeton, indiana today, talking about the economy. we will have that life for you here on c-span. on c-span2, a discussion on the use of military drones. author richard whittle has written predator: the secret origins of the drone revolution. we mentioned president obama s scheduled speech on the economy. it is likely he will talk about the latest unemployment figures released earlier today. 248,000 jobs added in the month of september. the jobless rate falling to 5.9%. this weekend on the c-span networks tonight at 10:00 eastern on the stand, a conversation with retired supreme court justice john paul stevens. on saturday night, the founder and former chair of microsoft, bill gates, on the ebola virus outbreak in west africa. dr.ay on two and a, genetical. tonight on c-span2, authors john yoo and bruce fein talk about w