Have now and there wasnt this consensus around doing those things. Those are two things that have come together that i hope will get carried forward in the next few years to really reach those goals. Anyone want to add on optimism or post 2015 . Let me just say that in my incoming address at the close of the Conference Also tried to share in that optimism but also back away a little bit from putting ourselves in a position where our concerns are 2030 and saying really what do we want to do by durban, which is two years from now. If we just keep the pace were going at, we should add at least, you know, 4 million or so more people on to treatment between now and then. That would be actually where we are plus a little better. And it seems to me that what we need to do with this every twoyear global convening is to start to use it more as an accountability tool and really to use it more as a formal way to measure where we are and what weve achieved. I feel just for myself the new goals, th
The dream act. When you only get 27 wasnt that of the latino vote in the last president ial election i dont think you want to go into this one by starting out with a declaration of war against the latino community. Now Mitch Mcconnell in the last day up in hershey, pennsylvania basically from what weve heard told the House Republicans were not going to do that in the senate. Were not going to go there because we dont think thats a smart move for the party. I think they have to deliver on issues that are important to the American People and get off the just anything obamas for is wrong. Get off the basically the chamber of commerce, if you will and you think for the 1 is good and deliver on some things like immigration reform. I would suggest maybe even climate change, tax reform trade issues. Not far left issue, but things where they can come together. Amy weve seen this dynamic play out very prominently inside republican circles since the rise of the tea party. Theyve been trying to h
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That assurance that these ideas are not on the table. I would like to start with unemployment. I have to add that is not the case in my constituency. Unemployment has lessened slightly. The value of wages has dropped over the last year by one and a half percent. If we will continue to rise above, what i am saying to the lady is, if you look at scotland as a whole, unemployment is down by 20,000, and the rate of unemployment in scotland is also down. And as the rate of unemployment in scotland is lower than the rate of unemployment in london. So the idea that this recovery is only being felt in the south of our country is simply nonsense. She mentions the issue of wages. One of the most powerful things we can do to help people with the cost of living is to take them out of income tax. And in scotland weve taken 23,000 people out of income tax altogether, and over 2 Million People are benefiting from the personal allowance changes that have already helped people to the tune of over 700 p