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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and we are honored to have you at aei. Im delighted to welcome you to this event in partnership with the yg network and National Affairs. We want to talk to you today about policy solutions in bringing back the middle class and solving problems of poverty we have seen now for 50 years. Today is the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon JohnsonsGreat Society speech that was the beginning of an experiment that basically remade the way our government interacts with its citizens, particularly citizens who are economically vulnerable. President johnson painted a picture of the Great Society with the following words the Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge t ....
In the implant mentation implementation of that to this day. First, at of the gift as evolutionary as you think. We still try to believe we are protecting the National Security. We still know the events that occurred on september 11, 2001, could happen again. And of course, that was written in the close aftermath of that. But it was also carefully crafted and vetted. It has been reauthorized with some changes over that time will stop over that time. But nonetheless, the majority of the provisions in that are valid and important. And theres still some is agreement about some of the provisions, but not most of the provisions in that legislation. Our trouble here, and i will let Jim Sensenbrenner address this because he can do so better than i can, but our trouble here is be carefully considered what section 215 should be used for. They used it for purposes different than ....
Rush understands something that Big Government liberals do not understand and that is you cant demand something into existence. If youre going to increase the demand for health care, whether its to the veterans administrations or obamacare and youre not increasing the supply through technology and market incentives, then youre going to have one of two things. Youre going to have delays or prices going up. Theres no way of avoiding the mathematics of this situation. So rick, just like the va, were going to have fewer doctors treating a lot more people and therefore government bureaucrats are going to come in to say what you can and cannot do. Rush may be on to something but hes not right about this. I have hammered the Obama Administration in everything i have written over the past two weeks. I think whats going on at the va is the worst thing we have going. But is it wh ....
Rush understands something that Big Government liberals do not understand and that is you cant demand something into existence. If youre going to increase the demand for health care, whether its to the veterans administrations or obamacare and youre not increasing the supply through technology and market incentives, then youre going to have one of two things. Youre going to have delays or prices going up. Theres no way of avoiding the mathematics of this situation. So rick, just like the va, were going to have fewer doctors treating a lot more people and therefore government bureaucrats are going to come in to say what you can and cannot do. Rush may be on to something but hes not right about this. I have hammered the Obama Administration in everything i have written over the past two weeks. I think whats going on at the va is the worst thing we have going. But is it wh ....
Floated the idea saying to them if you are a doctor or an engineer, or a technician, would you be willing to go abroad for a year or two and help people in other countries and that would help the cause of democracy worldwide. And he went on and said that the people didnt go to school, college just to get better do financially better in their life but to do something for the world. How many of you who are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in ghana, technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world. Your willing business to do that, or merely serve a year or two in the service but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, i think will depend the answer of whether a free society can. I think it can and i think americans are willing to contribute. But the effort must be than weve ever made it in the past. Tha ....