The United States. Now, how do you do . I have a brief Opening Statement here before i take your questions. Yesterday, secretary of the treasury donald regan sent to the congress a request to raise the debt ceiling to 985 billion. This represents a dramatic jump of 50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. The administration took this action with great regret because its clear that the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. And for too many years, this process has come too easily for us. Weve lived beyond our means and then financed our extravagance on the backs of the American People. The clear message i received in the Election Campaign is that we must gain control of this inflationary monster. Let me briefly review for the American People what weve already done. Within moments of taking the oath of office, i placed a freeze on the hiring of civilian employees in the federal government. Two days later, i issued an order to c
Beating. And it stood. It cant keep doing this. Somebodys going to take advantage, and i think theres a lot of people that want to take advantage of this time, and if we dont heal ourselves we will fall. Lincoln was right. It wont come from the outside. It will have to be national suicide, and i think the outside hitting us, when were so divided, national suicide. Host it is about islam. The name of glenn becks latest book. This is booktv on cspan2. Now on booktv, michael oren talks about his year at israels ambassador to the United States and shares his reflections on the arab spring and the israelipalestinian Peace Process. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Good afternoon. Thank you for your patience. Im suzanne call, the director of events and program at the store, and on behalf of our owners and staff id like to welcome you to politic and prose. Please turn off or sigh veins your cell phones and after the event we ask you leave your chair, and youre welcome to stay. We have
Also after the event we ask that you leave your chair and youre welcome to stay, we have another event later on this evening. During a question and answer session if you could step up to the microphone we would be grateful. We are recording this event. Has also going to be on our Youtube Channel and we have cspan here. We also ask that as a courtesy to your fellow audience members you do come to the microphone prepared with the question and not a speech. Also just briefly to pick up one of our [laughter] please pick up one of our july calendars, take a look at all the great programming we have going on here and also after three busbo busboy and poet lope not offered in bookstores the event said brooklyn at tacoma. Today were joined Michael Oren Hoosier to discuss his new memoir, ally my journey across the americanisraeli divide which is the start of his personal and professional journey that spans these two countries and their extraordinary but also extraordinarily public hated relatio
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You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We found many highway and Traffic Safety experts who are doing a Great Service to the public. What they need is public understanding and support. But the most important thing we discovered was that already many private citizens and communities across the nation have gotten together to tackle their local problems with real success. We present a few of their stories in this motion picture. We do so with pride, for here, it seems to me, is real democracy in action. And now, for a firsthand report, lets g