Here at cato. Its my pleasure to welcome you to a book forum today, where well be discussing the latest book from ralph naadir, unstoppable the emerging leftright alliance to dismantle the corporate state. You heard that right. Ralph nader is speaking at the Cato Institute. And that little popping sound you hear is heads exploding all over washington. The same sound you hear when people discover store the third time the Koch Brothers support drug legalization, because when you look at the world through ideological spectacles and see everything in terms of left versus right, the most interesting things in the world become invisible. In particular, if you look back at recent American History, important parts of the story get lost. So when we think back to the 1960s, and opposition to the military draft, we think of this as a heroic leftwing cause. Student cad cals opposing the war and radicals opposing the war conscription. But the other part of the story is that one of the most influent
And she was the one with the picture were soaked with the Russian Foreign minister with the Big Red Button reset and a big smile. Can you imagine such a thing . Did they not understand that people have very different ideas. Let them are putins objective may well be tube rebuild the russian empire but those mistakes combined with some other tactical mistakes in syria for instance to draw a red line and then say gosh i guess i cant react without getting congresses approval but right now hes willing to act in iraq without congresses approval. Nonetheless couldnt do it than in that sends a message to russia and others in the world that is extraordinarily unfortunate for america. We have seen an explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. That is a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities and theres a departmental review that was recently completed report on by commission including president clintons department of
Had a pretty cushy coming in now, life coming up. I didnt know a lot of people who would serve in the military and you talk about the scourge of Sexual Assault in the military you are trying to address, which i think is great. I dont know a lot about the military, so when i hear that senator Barbara Mccaskill added misery seems to have a different approach to your proposed solution, i dont really combat it with a lot of expertise. I was wondering if you could address the contrast. Being that women agree on a lot of things, but we disagree on many things, too. But claire and i agree on a lot more than we disagree. Now we are working hand in glove on the Sexual Assault a College Campus issue. I still think the way the women in the senate work is really special. Women in the senate have a quarterly dinner. Barbara mikulski when she was senator and there was finally too, she said im going to start having a caucus. The two women started having dinner and she kept the tradition up for 20 yea
Our service, but again focusing on our heaviest ridership routes. The Capital Investments is shown on this map here. It would be up to a 20 percent faster trip focusing on our highest priority routes. What these investments would a rou routes would improve safety and the quality of the experience for our customers, but it will also allow us to reinvest back into the service so when were able to save travel time that allows us to cost effectively increase frequency on the system. In approaching this implementation were very focused on the marriage on how the street is designed and how the service is designed and how the service is managed and thats the approach for all of our pilots like to look at our lanes, are we managing the certificate list proactively. We did a lot of training with our operators so they understood they were apart of a pilot and delivering a Premium Service to our customers but also so they can communicate the limited service. I wont go into the pilots because youv
Our neighborhoods, were providing 18 minutes of services. If were making tradeoffs for transit that were doing it on the routes that has the heaviest ridership and when were making decisions on how to make a community route, were not comparing it to the 28 gary, but comparing how its performing in terms of other routes and passenger effectiveness and cost effectiveness matrix. We also, in the transit effectiveness project are looking at stop consolidation. But its important to highlight were sticking with the key standard that most stops are within an 8th of a mile spacing and under the proposal, were recommending maintaining 97 percent of our 3500 stops where were looking at stop consolidation and working closely with neighborhoods and communities and making sure we hit other key land uses. This is the Rapid Network that has heaviest ridership. We want to make sure the service is direct and convenient as possible. Thats complimented by the grid network or the local network and these t