One of the lessons of the last decade if it has to become pulled with a significant force on the ground. It depends on what your goal is. If youre all is to degrade urgent organization or terrorist group im a drug can be useful with the caveat that of course is very government you have to partner with saying it places a lot of political pressure because it is not popular with the people, but it is still a very useful tool integrating those organizations. Degrading and containing. That is exactly right. That is the problem with the free work when applied in syria because the president has said not only degrade, but destroyed and that goes far beyond anything he has achieved with the same framework in yemen or smalley have. Mary. I agree. Airstrikes are really an important tool and i dont think anybody believes airstrikes should be gotten rid of or drones should be gotten rid of. On its own, attrition will not deal with an insurgency. Most of these countries, that is what we are dealing
Be able to match the states with National Priorities that will be funded by our Congress Persons and also the local communities have spent so much time and effort, like davenport and burlington, to be able to create jobs on their own. Who knows jobs the best but the authorities, the City Councils . They know where the jobs are. The communities are that need it. They noa know know what theye do to get those jobs to become a reality in their community. State government is going to be provide refreshing new dollars instead of one Agency Getting it. Be disbursed to four Economic Development authorities with their own board of directors, appointed by the governor, to sit for three years. They will create the thertunities and identify match between our state investment and the local priorities. Senator, thank you. Governor branstad, 45 seconds rebuttal. Well, first of all, obviously my opponent doesnt know whats going on in illinois, because have the secondhighest Employment Unemployment in
Good evening, and welcome to iowa. Gton, tonight marks the second of three debates in the race for Iowa Governor. To bring it to you with our partners, the andington hawkeye newspaper the greater burlington partnership. Incumbentxt hour, Governor Terry and jack hatch, his democratic challenge, will chance questions from our panelists. Kenneth, danielle, and the managing editor of the hawk cay, dale allison. Getting questions from you, our viewers, and readers, through twitter and facebook, live throughout this program. Use the hashtag iowagovernordebate. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome republic Governor Terry and Democratic State senator jack hatch. [applause] the overall theme, if you will, economy. S on the from jobs to job creation to infrastructure. On jobs. Topic will be in this, we will talk about job insensitives, like those used to build the fertilizer plant being built not here, and the minimum wage. We begin with jobs. Job creation and sustainment is a very big political
When we look through the lens of health 1 of 3 kids is obese or overweight. When we take the collective impact of each of those disparity points, what we see is indeed a generation of young people who are in crisis and there is a cost associated with that crisis, a cost that totals into the more than 150 billion that we estimate it will cost this nation when young people dont graduate. Additional burdens that will come in the health care system. So what we see is that our work is not just about prevention but our work is really about stabilizing the very foundation of this nation in terms of leaders, in terms that we have the work force that we need, and in terms of reducing the burden on our health care system. And we want to let you know that you can call in and join the conversation about what the challenges are facing todays youth or share your own experience with the boys and girls club of america or other sort of mentorship organizations. If you were under 18, you can call us at
Created and developed the avenue of the saints. Thats whats going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing Job Opportunities for Small Businesses in this state. Lets move now on to the topic of minimum wage. Danielle has a question for senator hatch. Senator hatch, in your campaign, you talk about growing Small Businesses and also increasing the minimum wage. Now, many of the Small Business owners weve heard from say theyre worried about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their business. How can you be in favor of both . Well, you know, good question. [laughter] but youre assuming that all Small Businesses pay below the minimum wage, which is wrong. Right now, there are 216,000 iowans that get less than the 10. 10 that we are proposing. Thats not a high wage. That allows an individual working 40 hours a week, works by the rules, works hard, works every day, to get just above the level of poverty. No iowan