good afternoon. and welcome to the center for the national interests. my name is chip gregson. i ll be the moderator of this discussion today. it s been said that the clearest statement of strategy is a budget where we have to allocate limited means to virtually unlimited demands. shipbuilding is especially interesting in this regard. ships are big usually. they have a 30 to 40-year life span. they have to balance current capability versus future investment, balance force readiness and maintenance versus forward presence and reassurance. and you re making bets on the effects of technology on combat. so, it s no small topic. fortunately we have two distinguished public servants here to help work us through this. to my immediate left is congressman randy forbes, a 16-year veteran representing the 14th district of virginia, chairman of the haas k and a hebb of the readiness subcommittee. and to his left, mark hansen, over 30 years service in the marine corps, a veteran, if you
what can we do to prevent such aggression? and what can we do to protect america and defend her core natural national interests in a very dangerous world. we have some suggestions. we believe there are time and cogent principles and lata neri principles to which we can refer to this. our extinguished our distinguished speakers this afternoon i look forward to hearing from them. james burnham called a prison house of nations. the extensive and groundbreaking work a policy initiated by stalin in the 1930 s with previous attempts 5 million innocent ukrainians were martyred by that policy. recently national review published a cover story. raised its capital through indiscriminate. sadly, we have been bombarded again the russian policy of civilian mass murder. i thought the ukrainian outrage made a statement of first principles timely and essential. in march, i wrote a statement called wild beasts are real. to review national reviews, historic and still fresh advoca
are rich and can hire fancy accountants and lawyers and lobbyists to help create special tax statuses. i m talking about americans dependent on government programs many i m not talking about disability or social security or medicare, programs they made into. i m talking about programs that assist antipoverty programs. something else we should talk about again. some are not working in terms of helping people escape poverty. i m talking about people who work and make just enough not to qualify for any of that stuff but not enough to afford the cost of living. not just them. you add to that the cost of raising children. it s more expensive to raise children more than ever. there is nothing we can do in tax reform by itself that solves all of those problems, but there is no way we can do tax reform without addressing the millions of americans who feel every time there is a debate in washington it s about helping everybody else except for them. so take, for example, the issue of t
we are engaged in nothing short of a rescue mission to finally bring relief to americans struggling under this law and to give everyone access to the care they need. will break away from this paul ryan event and piggyback life to the floor of the u.s. senate a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, it s hard to argue that obamacare is not a failing law. seven years after it became law, its laundry list of problems continues to grow. higher premiums, higher deductibles, customers losing health plans, patients losing doctors, fewer choices, failed co-ops, unraveling exchanges. unfortunate, without action that list will only become longer and the consequences will only become more severe. republicans know that. democrats know that. unfortunately, many americans know it firsthand. the american people deserve better, and they rightly expect us to act. and that s why choosing to watch from the sidelines as obamacare
before? i said, i was here before you were born, the transition show had proun hair, not white hair. it is an institution, happy to be on. here.glad you are let s talk about the fourth way, the title of the book, what does mean? guest: attention of the way. the first way was f.d.r., build big, reagan, cut back at home and be aggressive abroad. blair s, picked up by bill clinton to make liberalism way, ate and the fourth delivered to every republican member of the congress at their philadelphia retreat, all threw house, how to go big, what , go fast and marry president trump wants, which is infrastructure spending, large navy, a wall, regulatory reform with what paul ryan and the is tax ans want, which reform and entitlement reform. the fourth way is marriage of republicanism with president trump s agenda. host: who should read this book? republicans or do you have another audience, as well? audience.ave another i want to know what is being done by the leaders. liberals, they