Taxpayer dollars are being well spent in this regard . Well, ive asked the deputy secretary to lead this effort and she is traveling around the country visiting with a number of organizations and groups who are interested in getting into farming or folks who are encouraging people to get into farming. One of the issues that has cropped up is this issue of land tenure. Candidly, you mentioned the fact that there are going to be a lot of people retiring and leaving the farming business. That is probably true. The the question is what happens to the land . Whoever owns that land what is their ultimate goal here or their relatives ultimate goal . Is it to maximize return or is it to create opportunity for the next generation or is it a combination of both . Frankly, ive asked the this task force to come with recommendations on this issue of land tenure. What can we do should we do . As usda with reference to our programs to ensure that there is that proper balance so that its not a focus s
Said earlier our foreign friends, we had a meeting in baltimore where over 30 countries came with representatives to talk to them about the appropriate way of banning boultry if we have this, that its not fair to your poultry producers because theres an incident in oregon or iowa the ban production from you and so were continuing to work on that, as well. The last thing were trying to do is to convince congress that this is a longterm issue. Im pretty sure this isnt the only time were going to have to dole with Something Like this is to see if we could complete the funding for the poultry Lab Improvements that i think are absolutely necessary in modernization of that lab. That would be good. Would this virus be available fairley soon or whats the timetable . Well, you know i would hope it would be but i dont want to speak for the company in terms of how quickly they can turn it around. But, you know im pretty impressed with the fact that in a relatively short period of time weve come a
Effective inspections and i hope our witnesses will deal with that today because that is a matter of major concern. We need to know the answer to that. Have we cut off all pathways for iran to obtain a Nuclear Weapon particularly the Covert Military use operations . We know that is a major concern. That is why the pmd is particularly important, the chairman mentioned the pmd and the work that iaei, our International Inspectors. They have great credibility in this area. But we want to know whether they have the capacity to do what we are asking them to do and will they have the access they need because we need to know about the prior military dimension to go forward to make sure we can contain any opportunity they may use for covert activities and will we discover it and be able to take action. These are questions were going to ask. We read the agreement. And we still have questions. And we hope well get answers as to whether we have effectively prevented iran from using covert activiti
What does the superintendent do . This was second grade. They will answer anything. Every hand in the room went up. Write down in front was this little guy named michael. He was trying to follow the rules. He is just trying to get called on. He jumps up and says, i know. The teacher says, all right what does the superintendent do . That is the guy in charge of super nintendo. [laughter] it sounded like a better job. This brilliant teacher says, that was a creative interpretation of the language, but actually the superintendent is the leader of the schools. Does anybody know a leader does what a leader does . There was a little girl sitting in the back. As far back as he possibly could. She had her hand raised so high. The teacher called on her. The teacher says, ok what does a leader do . She looks at me and says, a leader is someone who goes out and changes being to make things better changes things to make things better. I have read probably almost every leadership book there is and
Watch. Jpmorgan today says buy the bounce. Well talk a lot more about that later this morning. Our rolled map begins with the markets trying to hold their ground after one of the worst days for equities. Like we said, in eight weeks. Dells profit falls 72 as the Company Looks further out to that potential future under private ownership. And described as an unusually stylish geek. Yahoo s ceo Marissa Meyer is in vogue, literally. First up, more signs of wait for prompter here. Seemingly weak economy, Housing Starts up at zoom but below consensus. Mike, how much damage was done yesterday with dow below 50day moving average, the stocks, financials, the transports, all the same . The market ak acted ragged but yesterday it hit it. To me its not just the fear of the fed taper. Its a fear of the fed taper at the same time that Everything Else doesnt look unequivocally great. I also find its interesting how the market doesnt like when labor market data is better than other Economic Data becau