Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
And i caught the slightest glimpse which ended soon thereafter. And then finally they said you can go but i asked if i could take a picture. That was far away. Kim and i take a picture . They said no. I said why . Because the other agent from behind said it is National Security zone was not allowed to take that picture. When we moved away he immediately called and made a complaint. He took the agents name and he called the station to make a complaint. I felt like i got a glimpse of what people are talking about if they talk about all kinds of things that lots of people say that we live in the occupied territory. Talking about being tailgated in the Homeland Security or border virtual vehicles from the back of their cars and people talk about coming onto their property without a warrant and home invasions i interviewed a man who was pulled out of the vehicle and hit with a baton. There is more stories like that. At one town hall meeting recently with the aclu looking into abuses they as
Wellversed on. It doesnt occur to me that i have heard much or seen much in terms of complaints on that issue. That one i would have to get back to you on. Joel, do you have something to say about Medicare Advantage . You mentioned it before. I think, again, the Medicare Advantage standards are set for a particular population group, the elderly. To import them directly into the Broader Market place i think would probably not be the best solution. I would certainly look at some of the principles that are there. I think the rubber meets the road for your group where you earn your pay is should there be quantification and if we are going to have it everybody that does it starts with time and distance kinds of rules. Thats going to be and there are those in the Medicare Advantage standards. Do we need those or some kind of National Forum . I certainly will be skeptical of doing that at this point. But that is where the rubber will meet the road in the discussion. The Medicare Advantage exa
Driving the share price up. That is the challenges that we have that is the culture that we have. It is the mindset to say that is what is happening every company that they have to drive down the cost because of Financial Market will punish them. That is why Small Businesses different but 50 years ago we did not have a place and not be punished by the process to minimize every single one in though longterm the International Library fund with lower growth not higher growth. It is normal and that is the way it is. Maybe it is not policy decisions. So i will pose the same question knighted earlier we know the game is rigged. Two bacon incentives never hurts workers how do we change that is specially with wisconsin with the governor that is actively antiunion powdery change that culture and politics in the system . Wisconsin is ground zero in many ways. I have a community where we have been in a decadeslong recession and even as we talk about spending opportunity particular people of color
I want to start by noting that the committee has been particularly supportive as the staff and the oversight investigation subcommittee for their work on this issue and their work with our agency we consider it to be a Real Partnership and we are very grateful for this committees support. We have received a number of referrals from this committee and we appreciate your confidence and ability to work with the employees that your office refers. So thats one thing. Its already happening. We are doing everything that we possibly can. Weve set up a priority system and we free allocated staff to handle the va employee claims. But as the numbers increase its a very hard to keep up. We were at capacity before. In the retaliation cases now it exceeds 130, and the number as i mentioned continues to increase pretty much daily. We are an agency that has 120 employees more or less. We have jurisdiction for the statute for the reemployment rights act and we are working now on a demonstration for the