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Sleepy pattern, we were like the sleepy mississippi, the city was about to just slide in the river anyway. we had no economy to speak of, it s all based on tourism, and locals had sort of given up, and there was not a lot of civic involvement. i think katrina was a wakeup call, i think that there should be we need to be mindful of the fact that the poverty gap is huge here, we have the second biggest rich and poor gap in the country. a lot of people in this town are doing really well, more businesses are coming here post katrina than they were before. there s so much work to be done, the school system we just heard, there s a gap between the charter school education, the charter school education, i feel like unless you are in the area of town where we are, the french quarter and all along the sliver by the river which is the highest ground here, which is the least disturbed. it s still kind of a mess. ....
Lowering the tax to bring this american profit home. [ applause ] even in this polarized congress we have a chance of passing this. i say let s bring $2 trillion home to america. let s bring it home now. liberal policies have failed our inner cities. let s just get the facts straight. they have failed our inner cities. our schools are not equal and the poverty gap continues to widen. martin luther king spoke of two americas, described them as two starkly american experiences that exist side to side. in one america people experience ....
Lowering the tax to bring this american profit home. even in this polarized congress, we have a chance of passing this. i say let s bring $2 trillion home to america. let s bring it home now. liberal policies have failed our inner cities. let s just get the facts straight. they have failed our inner cities. our schools are not equal and the poverty gap continues to widen. martin luther king spoke of two americas. he described them as two starkly different american experiences that exist side by side. in one america, people ....
Republicans say they re going to quit their jobs for the subsidies. and there was a example of the single mother who can quit her job to spend more time with her children. does this show it s the beltway clarks being out of tur. ? i don t think so. there s two narratives, those benefiting from the law and those caught in the transition, who thought they were getting one thing or having to give up their current program go to another plan. there are two different narratives on this. i think each party is talking to their base on that. governor, i want to ask you what congressman paul ryan said in a tuesday hearing that the law disproportionately affects low wage workers and makes the poverty gap worse. how do you respond to that? of course, he s ignoring the fact that there are 30 million people who are getting health care that didn t have it previously. it s ludicrous. it s the typical rhetoric. one point i want to make on the question you ask the ....
World. so, you know, i get like if i m being as charitable and i can and say i get it. that is the women are not victims. women are powerful. women are empowered. right? let me tell you all the good things. women are equal. i read that. but then in my less charitable reading of it, it sounds like, i m sorry, do you not know that there is a feminine poverty gap? do you not know that there is a wage gap? do you not know that there really are serious challenges that women are having in accesses reproductive health care? it feels out of touch for him to say, well, the women in my family are fine. sure. you know, are wealthy women fine? sure. but that s not what we re talking about here. let me say as the only man at the table, i m going to tread very, very lightly. but having said that, though, look. as a conservative, as a libertarian, it makes me a little uneasy talking about this topic. i feel it should be the individual s responsibility. however, my faith and my overall ....