Take over at the cia. Hamid karzai is coming to washington later this week, the headlines this morning about president obamas Foreign Policy agenda for 2013 we want to hear from you what are the challenges in 2013 on the foreignpolicy front . The numbers are on your screen. Send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook. Also send us an email. We are getting your reaction today to the nominations put out by the white house yesterday. President obama had a News Conference to put forth chuck hegel as well as the john brennan. To head the cia. Also, there are the headlines in the newspapers of syria, iran, peace in the middle east, etc so we want to get your take what to you think of Foreign Policy issues in 2013 . Here is some comments on our Facebook Page what is your take on this . We will get to your comments in a minute. The front page of the Washington Post here is the front page of the Huffington Post this morning these are all the headlines in the Huffington Post this morning.
When we talk about organizing a around a singular principal, i dont think the solution is necessarily to consolidate around existing labor movements. It is not necessarily to formulate a third party platform. The solution is to use these tools and use these bodies in order to consolidate power and to use that power to challenge the way in which decisions are made fundamentally. I would like to have time for questions from the audience. Please go to one of the of mikes so it can be sure to hear you. I will alternate between mikes as long as we have people at them. Do you think cooperation does not work in this country because people do not know what it means . Noncooperation, civil disobedience. And if not, why not . In this country. I believe it should work, that is the only way to help in this country, but it does not really work. It works, if you get the numbers. The important thing is about building numbers. And sustaining it. But it certainly works. Worked in the labor movement. Th
Problem thats a Health Problem and not going to get better in prison . Would you want to know there might be other solutions . Nonviolent felons who serve their time should get back in society, should be able to get a job, be able to vote, have a life and have a family. Their children should look at what comes from happiness and hard work. We talk about the family unit owing down the drain, and we are preventing families from going back. We must address the federal mindset that values arrest rates. It is not because white kids in affluent suburbs are not also smoking pot, it is they tend to be arrested and do not have as good representation and the police gravitate there because it is easier. It has been going on for a long time. It is not a purposeful racism, but we have a racial return on the war on drugs that is not fair. Minority communities are easy targets. Some say that is good politics. Maybe it is bad policy, and good people suffer every day as a result. It is a policy that te
Cost of servicing the debt will increase so quickly and so much that we could very well find yourself in a situation where the current, what we were added to changes vary dramatically. And we can talk about this further if we had the chance. Process alone is not the solution to the problem. You do need policy agreement to make the thing work. However, i think it is important to understand that the policy process can be an important agreement in keeping things on track as we move further. I agree with dave obey if you cant solve the problem, to which you can do. We used to say that back in the 1980s and he was director of cbo. There is one other thing we have to take into context. The budget problem we have now is so large that we make it to the point where we have to deal with fundamental changes in policy rather than simple incremental changes. It may not be possible to shave a little bit off of medicare reimbursement. We have to think very seriously about changing the way the process
Billion. The actual cost of the plan itself was ejected originally in the 60 billion, now it is about 161 billion give or take. Host are there problems with the plane . Guest by the way, 161 million per plane. While they have had to level off some problem, based on software problems. Millions of dollars that they need to do, and whole bunch of flight testing they need to be doing. They are still making changes to tooling, some of the things were going to buy something 289 planes before this Flight Test Program is done, so over the next 10 years, we could be spending upwards of 2 billion just a reoutfitting be plain that are sitting on the flight line right now. Host Frank Oliveri joins us until 9 15 to talk about the f 35 fighter. We have questions about it not only from your viewpoint and interest in it but also maybe you are in active or retired military and want to give your thoughts on as well. Here is the line, how we have divided them this morning if you want to participate. For