Engineer, a Petroleum Engineer early part of her career, then a banker for a good portion of her career, a chief executive of a publicly held company and lastly a mountain climber and a kayaker. I think the last two attributes that she brings to this job are probably going to be the most important attributes of washington climbing mountains and avoiding rocks in the rapids. So i think she is extraordinarily well credentialed for this position. Ive had sometimes distressing experience and Energy Policy formation. I have a lot of i see Bennett Johnson in the background here. A lot of us have bruises that have lasted for years from that process. Senator, good to see you. Bob frye, the late bob frye was the head of resources for the future, once testified before the committee i was on that the task of defining the Energy Future was to chart a safe, secure response environmentally responsible energy path that would sustain Human Progress for present and future generations. That was probably
Caller right now i lost my job because my boss was fired from the university. And recently got my doctoral degree from that university, and i am spending eight hours a day on the computer, trying to network. I want to buck the contention that it is a mismatch of skills between the employer and the people that are unemployed. There was a recent wall street journal saying that part of the problem is how employers conduct searches of candidates, and her recruiting is done. How recruiting is done. I think the Unemployment Benefits should be extended, because sometimes there are highly skilled workers who do not want to take an eight hour minimum wage type job, and theyre not always a good match for that. I will leave at there and let you all comment on that. Host mr. It tanner . Guest employers are trying to get the best employees they can. Productivity of the employees is what makes the business profitable. If theyre not going to do a good job of it, the business will be in trouble. Over
I think they definitely need to do a better job there. I think this is true not just for president obama but everyone of us. Things are complicated. They are more complex than they look on paper. You bring up the payroll tax cut. I thought it was a terrible idea in the context where we are supposed to collect this money to help pay for the retirement of current retirees. You cannot have it both ways. Claim we have Social Security selffunded and then say we are not going to collect that program. Unds that is extremely important. Do itdmitting the way you is by borrowing more money. There are a lot of things lost in the debate. Some are born and complicated. Specific tonk it is president obama. Guest was a payroll tax cut as part of the stimulus. It happened through the payroll taxes. It did not mean money going to Social Security was reduced. Guest exactly. But that was lost in the debate. Been i do think there has in messaging problem with obama. He did not do the things he could have
Our law and review our policy towards egypt and our assistance to egypt including special privileges that egypt receives such as cash flow financing for Foreign Military financing. The u. S. Should carry out its own internal review as well as a dialogue with egyptians inside and outside the Egyptian Government with the stated intention of resuming assistance as soon as the country is clearly back on a democratic path. In the meantime, we should do a review of the kind of military and economic assistance we offer egypt, which should not be kept on autopilot. Rather, it should be updated in order to provide the kind of assistance when it is rescinded resumed that is truly suitable to promoting a stable, prosperous, democratic egypt that plays a vital and responsible role in the middle east. The u. S. Understandably is wary of damaging its longstanding relationship with the Egyptian Government but it should avoid pursuing a policy that appears to be cynical and unprincipled. We should not
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