Shot. Nonetheless he made it here and been a fantastic member of Parliament Standing up for his constituents. In wales since the election 22,000 more small business. Employment in wales going up by 52,000. Unemployment coming down private sector growth. We see Real Recovery in wales. It needs my honourable friend back here standing up for his constituents and for wales in the house of commons. I have here, mr. Speaker, a cutting from a york crest on the 24th of april 2010. Which says and i quote. David cameron last night dismissed claims the tory was put up the mps in the election november, last november. Why should the public believe promises he makes at this coming election . I have given the strangest possible answer. This time in government, we know what needs to be done. We know the changes and the truth is, both sides of this house have voted for a 30 billionpound adjustment. The labour front bench voted for it too. We have set out what needs to happen with departmental spending
What result is and, clearly, what were looking at is something that is the an tistithesis of what you can see would truly exist within a competitive environment. I think its time, thank you. And this is a complicated issue. I think its time to open it up to the audience. Yes, sir . Right here. Theres a microphone . Yes, there is a microphone. The thing i learned about running an Organization Even though it was a notforprofit i was the ceo oval,f, we needed revenue. The revenue seems to be the heart of the problem. We talk about businesses. I dont know of any business that restricts its price increases to how through some other criteria other than what the market would bare. The market would bare these lower prices, they lower the prices. If the market could bare higher prices, they raised the price. I think the biggest problem, one of the big problems was the new Regulatory Regime in the post office. And congress has limit to an external inflation as the limit on how much that you can
Global economy more than six times of tear rifls. Ariffs. I recognize my responsibility to serve all of you and appreciate the input, cooperation help, advice and assistance that you do. We really appreciate this robust dialogue with the clamham lerber and its members. We want to continue to fulfill or obligation operating as a strong Law Enforcement association while helping our businesses remain competitive in the global marketplace. Thank you all very much. Thank you commissioner. We have a few minutes for questions. If i could just ask you to state your name and who youre with to ask your question. Who would like to start it off . You did cover a lot of ground there, thank you, sir. I thought we had one back here but i will just lead off with questions while there is a vocal group up here so i know you guys will have one soon. So spencer, get up there. Commissioner, thank you again for addressing the clam berhamber and broader membership from other organizations as well. We appreci
But just think about the example of delivering a package at the same time youre delivering the mail. The incremental cost of delivering that package given that you already have these enormous economies of scale and scope based on the monopoly product. We would be very uncomfortable if we said that the military could provide could have a private business for private security forces. I dont see any difference. Frankly. Second you know, the kirby. The activities of this Government Agency in the private market to postal product. We heard from our friends proposals for a whole line of new products. This would only compound the problem. The notion that the Postal Service, as the expertise to handle backnking services and financial services. To me, this is, you know, in the 1970s, the Oil Companies had a lot of money because oil prices had skyrocketed. They said we are all going to become conglomerates. And they started buying businesses, they had nothing to do with the oil business. And ten
Enforcement. But you should do it in a consistent, predictable way, and those that are violating our trade laws, those that are being required of enforcement, that it only helps the businesses that are in fact playing by the rules and that have that level playing field. So we need to do a better job in that. I heard from congressional leaders about the importance of enforcement also. And the Critical Role that we play in protecting our markets. We have made some strides. For example, cbp and immigration and customs enforcement, we have a new director, as many of you know, sara saldana. She was the United States attorney in dallas so she clearly understands enforcement and prosecution issues. So working closely with ice and homeland investigations, were trying to do more training for each of our components, were trying to understand and work through the processes and the operations that we can attack smuggling and the growth in shipments in counterfeit goods. Many of these pose Serious