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A packed house. I do not know if i have ever seen in the auditorium this full. You draw an audience. It is a slow news cycle in south asia, so this is surprising. We are very excited to have the ambassador here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce before i introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. But we do have some heritage products in the u. S. Relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the u. S. Government. We releasedt night a new paper, navigating differences and consolidated reviewing some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term modi. Dy and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big ....
They made their taxes lower, and far lower in many cases than ours and jobs left our country. Large corporations changed their Business Models by exploiting jobs to other countries and then shipping their goods back to the United States where they make massive profits and they wouldnt be paying tax to us either so we lost the jobs, we lost the taxes, they closed the buildings, they closed the plants and factories, we got nothing but unemployment we got nothing other businesses, even classic American Brands switch their headquarters to foreign countries. Because of this and other reasons like weak borders, america remains stuck in the past although i have to tell you, we have general kelly here today, and we stopped 78 going up to 80 on the border traffic coming through. In just a short period of time [ applause ] hes do ....
Brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Government engaging. But there really are metaissues that ar ....