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we have followed that policy. and we never said that it was a target, which we would i understand that. i appreciate the kauvcaveats. you re very good at caveats, i appreciate that. that brings me to my second point. a full six and a half years after the recovery, as you acknowledged there is slack in the labor market and there are significant weaknesses in the labor market, in the overall economy. in fact, a recent investors business daily article said the over all group has been 13.3%. that s less than half the average growth rate in the previous ten recoveries since waurld world war 2. if it had been average, gdp would by had $1.9 trillion larger today. you recognized this in your report saying the measure of labor under utilization remains relative. that would explain why you ve invoked that caveat and haven t raised the rates even though you came below that 6.5%. i understand the analysis. let s talk about the cause of that underlying weakness. it s clearly no ....
[cheers and applause] john: the phrase american dream came with a book written in the midst of the depression america is that dream of a land where life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone and for many people the dream has come true but now ayatollah something is wrong. it is no longer accessible is it suffering or alive and well? 75 percent said suffering. is that true? how many of you think is as achievable as it was before? [cheers and applause] how many of you feel not so much? [applause] pray pessimistic. what a man who people say has lived the dream to creative for medical dash many others is called the most powerful man and lost a is. steve when steve steve wynn. they like you. [laughter] you are self-made multi billionaire and how did you do that? i am told the town was seedy but you built hotels that were more appealing but i would think a lot of people had that idea. ideas are easy but doing it is difficult. john: what was difficult? i am n ....
to prosperity. who is this that i spent time actual time working on the national security issues. of all those people running there is not one that has fixed areas in all of those critical three areas. a midsummer person running for president? we do. part of a video giving the reasons john kasich says he should be president. the live announcement is live on c-span 3 at 11:00 a.m. eastern. it s almost as if they were a matter enacting it. freedom breeds inequality. i ll inequality. i ll say it a third time. almost always in the rate. very unlikely today. today i believe there is someone singing dwindling talk about hot topic hot salacious topic number two whereas then i don t think i was the norm in tv at the time and i don t think these guys needed that. as you mention the moderator a distinguished newsstand who is really embarrassed by this year he was moderating but he disappears for sometimes fi ....
be militarily defeated without being treated in the homebase and so this fight eventually has to go over the iraqi border not odd. [inaudible] you don t really expect to defeat them? but there are ground forces. [inaudible] we have are the spoken about playing the role and i m not suggesting that we have an optimally configured ground force in the region but i m equally clear that injecting western boots on the ground would not be the solution. that would not deliver the solution. try as they may leave lead us on to this. thank you, mr. chairman on this point. this analysis is being done with whatever you hope to achieve with airstrikes. and of course we are talking about this in recent years and so what are your plans for this situation? it also remains to be seen as far as a political transition in the regime to a government which has legitimately. [inaudible] at the outcome that we see is not going to be it easy to deliver and we recognize that. in the me ....
specifically blamed mcconnell for his push not being successful. the truth is if the majority leader hadn t opposed us we could have insisted that iran recognizes israel s right to exist and released its hostages before any sanctions are lifted. he told reporters. more now on what s in store for the senate from a capitol hill reporter. good morning to you. good morning. explain this criticism and where it came from? has this been long simmering between senator ted cruz and the majority leader mitch mcconnell? yes, to answer you briefly. cruz is running a campaign that is essentially running against republicans in washington and trying to showcase himself as the conservative leading the charge against what he considers the washington cartel. they have been fighting over strategy ranging over the budget conference in 2013. the government shutdown in 2014. there was a fight over immigration at the end of last year. we have numerous tactical battles. this is the lat ....