you ll see that in the number of people re-elected. even in the extraordinary elections last the last congressional election the number of people re-elected was extraordinary. in california where we ve had districts gerrymandered over the years and parties that have dominated there is really no incentive whatsoever. if you care about your career and you re selfish in the context of your own fate and future and what you believe if you get to the next level you can do as a conscious move that s the problem. so how could as i ve been saying to people, there are 311 million of us. there are 545 of them. i like our odds. yeah. what can we do to help what can we do to help the political it s easy to moral outrage is easy. i ve made a living for a couple years. it s terrible. yeah. we have to move to resolution. you talk a lot about this in your book. and in california we ve actually followed some of your examples and leads moving toward an open primary. we re focusing now o
decision. this is another example of our congress being quite dysfunctional. they were handed a piece ofr th. the motionturessociation and chris dodd tir old friend, ey said hey. let s go with this. what happens is all of a sudden they see this doesn t work. it actually creates more problems, potentially more problems than signing the law. so now you have this huge reaction which is awesome to watch in a way. again, i have no idea what i m doing and the students and teachers around in the united states have no idea how to answer any questions today but it is a very blunt measure by wikipedia but it is actually quite a precisely good way to do this. you re saying you sign a law that is going to have blunt and stupid consequences. don t do it. let s figure it out in some more rational manner. matt, you get the last word. there is a lot of theft on this property. there as lot of concern. the bill as first structured is kind of over reaching and raises
beginning of this administration, a lot of talk about green jobs. a lot of short-term subsidies. and they re never going to happen again. and so a lot of people made investments and now they ve pulled back from them and they have to re-examine. it s a bit of a balancing act and it rewards big players with big money and it penalizes the little guy. what about the idea of just cutting taxes in general? if we just reduce taxes that we would have more investment and we would have more prosperity? well, if you reduce some taxes you reduce corporate income taxes, you may attract more people to be here. but this notion somehow that we re going to reduce all taxes and that s going to go straight back to the people, we know that doesn t work. we have the bush tax cuts followed by ten years of job losses, declining median incomes, and the beginning of an economic crisis of the sort the united states hasn t seen since the great depression. let s talk about some of the other things you say r
controlled internet in this country. we want to bring in our west coast megapanel with us at silicon valley. down in los angeles matt miller. i ll begin with you here. your thoughts on where this debate is going. certainly the strike has caught a lot of people s attention. how we manage to do our jobs i don t know. it s only fair. however, i think if national laws can t work you need an international solution. what is very interesting is say you look at say sweden, they ve been counteracting it with adapting a digital age so fundamental tally is not going to come down to lawmakers but technologies catching up with pirates. the concern was their ability to gatekeep who can see what is what really has everybody up in arms. the congress cannot make this
problem with gridlock. there is of course the other element. i mean, which is they won t pass a lot of dumb bills. but i think that s a sort of a smaller issue when people just have no confidence. yeah. that their rulers are going to let them go about their business. economies need certainty. unfortunately the two largest economies in the world the european union which all together makes up the largest economy in the world and obviously america complete political uncertainty at the moment. with the european union you have 27 countries and leaders trying to make a decision and therefore they ve always been behind the crisis curve as it were or the leaders and the euro and obviously here as well. fundamentally, 2012 is going to be very, very tough year and goodness knows what we ll see by the end of it. as i ve been saying, as we sort of travel around, matt, that there are 311 million of us and 545 of them. so you got to figure the odds are with us. and i just wonder how hot the