For any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to provide the Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to acknowledge first off the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which has made this program possible, and also the work of amanda mooneys, the assistant director, and Frankie Lyons for organizing todays event. The history of mass incarceration, the us you of ofs incarceration issue mass incarceration has reached a Critical Mass of attention in the last six months or so. There have been initiatives that have been launched obviously by the senate just this week. And in various other venues as well. All of them calling for reform of the system of incarceration, and what is interesting is that this has been a Bipartisan Initiative involving democrats and republicans. It is a response to what is clearly a serious problem. I just want to offer a few brief statistics to highlight this. The United States
China and india because theyre large, big countries. But theres absolutely no intent on challenging soa. The chinese are building up forces and we have to watch that and asked for greater transparency. But theyre doing too good a job selling it to us. And so while i watch china with great interest as a professional manner, im not up to be china is going to become an enemyfg because it got nowhere been our enemy in the past and have gotten very far by not being counting the enemy. If you read the consequences as interest we need to have a clear idea of who would be taking over to power. With respect to iran, we need to put pressure on them. They are not going to give up their Nuclear Program easily. We have been trying to do this for eight or nine years. They keep insisting that its just for the production of power. But i have seen some of the things that have evolved. So you cant trust them. The solution may well be okay, if all you want is power, lets talk about how you can do that i
By calling. If you want to reach out on social media, you can do so off of twitter. 15 saying worried, 10 optimistic and you can send an email. The headlines were the inspiration for the question. When it comes to economic related matters the wall street journal on the jobs record. Tepid job growth fuels worry. We will highlight the use of the word worry. And in New York Times job creation is still steady despite worry. They talk about the jobs report. Turning to wall street and stock market, here is the Financial Times take, wall street ends at highest level since the financial crisis. Other stories talk about wall street saying wall street ends with a bang. If you want to look at the housing industry another indicator when it comes to the economy, the real Estate Section of the Washington Post this morning framework for renaissance is how they talk about a story looking at a reis surgeons not only resurgence in building and buying. We will read some of the stories as we go along. We
That is the opinion of eugene robinson. Alabama on theom democrats line. Caller i heard a congresswoman yesterday who said there was only to the blaze through the problem. He said one was raising taxes. The other, i cannot remember. I think the other was cutting programs. I feel like the only way they are going to fix it is by cutting programs or taxing businesses. I have looked at statistics. It said some corporations like exxon and walmart have more income. I do not understand how they do not owe more. We spend every day on these people. They are making millions and millions. It is amazing that they should not sit in on anything except to help the regulate everything. It is amazing to me. Host we are asking the question on our Facebook Page. Will this congress be different . We welcome your comments. 78 are saying no. 17 are saying yes, it will be different. Roman joins us on the line for republicans. Caller as far as will congress be different, i would like to say it will, but i hav
From a french company. They get 30 they dont even pay tax on. We have to run a country. I think simpsonbowles is the right direction, but i dont think simpsonbowles goes far enough. At one time i thought steve forbes idea was great, but he wants to keep a certain piece of money that is an entitlement. Guest and makes a very good point that we have got to have the kind of progrowth tax reform that simplifies the system, broadens the base, lower rates, but that stimulates Economic Growth and economic development. That means not only getting people back to work but it is the growing economy that creates more revenue, not higher taxes. The growth and the revenues from growth is what we really need to address the deposition and debt. Often we dont focus on that enough in the scoring, like the cbo, Congressional Budget Office scoring you see all the time, the revenue from growth is not factored in. In anything we put together a, like we just made the lower tax rates permanent for 99 of all t