The Company Announced wednesday that its keeping more than 1,000 jobs in indianapolis instead of moving them to mexico. Lets go to our columnists. Lets start with general mattis, good pick . Terrific. My joke about mattis is that he can scare the feathers off a chicken. You want a defense secretary whos going to inspire respect. A secretary of defense is going to inspire the respect of his generals and of american troops. I think mattis, he was the first general to go into afghanistan and into kandahar province in 2001 as a one star, this is a guy who is well known in the defense department, hes seen as sort of a scholar, a warrior, hes exactly the kind of guy, i dont think we have seen the likes since george matthews. Hes going to have to have a special dispensation from congress that, takes a lot for him to serve as the secretary. I think we have to support the civilian control of the military, but mattis has been out of the military for about three years, he has the confidence of jo
Multisignatumultiagency unit. Larry craig, center from idaho nope for his wide stance, didnt like the information they were putting out, and he reached out and had unit abolished. We were able to sue and get their positions restored. But throughout all of the head of the center asked the question that haunted us, which was, who knew math coulding dangerous . So we employ a number of tools to help scientists suing under statutes where best available science is required, use of scientific integrity policies and even tools like the data quality act and industry sponsored law that allows us to file administrative challenges to Government Agency policies. Recently we were able to use this act to get, again, guided by agency toxicologist, the epa to drop safety assurance for artificial turf made with crumb rubber. We were able to persuade the white house to order overdue multiagency Risk Assessment on using solid waste as a play surface. [ applause ] thank you. And a number of our employees,
Responded back, because if we challenge the little ones, the regulatory agencies wont have time to get to the big ones. Now, thats a part of what were up against. But i wanted to just indicate that our strategies are and theyre successful. Our strategies are to create selfhelp mechanisms for the consumers like the lemon law. To make to always make progress. To get victims organized to show what it is. Today the u. S. Department of transportation will not release the names and addresses of consumers who are complaining about a defect. Why wont they do that . They say, well, the consumer doesnt want to have their name made public. Well, in fact, the consumer is writing to 20 different institutions, attorney generals, action lines, the center for auto safety, you name it, and yet the agency says they want privacy. What theyre doing is theyre trying to stamp out media access to victims to build a story around. So, victims are exceedingly important to our winning strategies. The other thing
This is a guy who is not afraid to talk to confront injustice. I think of something George Bernard shaw said you dont make progress by standing on guard. The fact that he used to be 65 will give you the idea of the fights i have been in. He has been more and additional to veterans for peace, he is a cofounder of the dont shoot coalition on the Michael Brown Police Killing in ferguson, missouri. He was an artillery love and based in clues and American Civil Liberties union and the Steering Committee of bringing them home now campaign. To introduce him and veterans for peace, we have a short video and then michael will be right here. [begin video clip] my name is barry ladendorf. I am the president of the veterans for national peace. Across the United States we have about 160 chapters and chapters in ireland and okinawa. We are forming a chapter in open our. We have a chapter in mexico. What we have learned in our collective experiences is that veterans is violence goes down. It doesnt p
The delegate floor. I think our country has gone in a bad direction the past 7 years. We have been a country where consumers drive the economy. We have now become one where the government is more and more involved in driving the economy. Anthony tell us why thats a bad thing. Small groups of people no matter how bright they are and how mart they think they are, they cant guide the economy as effectively as millions of people month make decisions every day with every dollar they spend. An economic form of democracy where you voter time you buy something. When apple was starting, what if the government subsidized ibm, would apple have been able to get off the ground . What if they chose another computer company. Anthony what steps have to be taken to improve the growth and Living Standard for middle class families and lower middle class families . We need a president who understands we need policies that even counsel growth. When we have growth we have jobs increase and income increase.