Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
Live from new york city. Lets hear new orleans a little bit here. There you go. Give me a little mix here. It has been almost ten years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, in particular new orleans. Parts of the city have rebuilt and flourishes some areas are still struggling a decade later. The president is speaking now. Lets have a listen. As soon as i land in new orleans, first thing i do is get hungry. [ laughter ] when i was here with the family a few years ago, i had a shrimp poboy at parkway bakery and tavern, i still remember it. Thats how good it was. And one day i leave office, maybe ill finally hear a rebirth of the maple leaf on tuesday night. [ cheers and applause ] ill get a chance to see the mardi gras and somebody tell me what carnival is for. But right now i just go to meetings. [ laughter ] i want to thank michelle for the introduction and more importantly for the great work she is doing. What symbolizes, what she represents in terms of the city bouncin
Growing at a 3. 7 clip means that the u. S. Remains an anchor of global strength and stability in the world. That we have recovered faster, more steadily, stronger than just about any economy after the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Its important for us to remember that strength. Its been a volatile few weeks around the world. There has been a lot of reports in the news of the stock markets when you stock market swinging, worries about china and europe. The United States of america, for all the challenges that we still have, continue to have the best cards. We just have to play them right. Our economy has been moving and continues to grow. Unemployment continues to come down. Our work is not yet done, but we have to have that sense of steadiness and vision and purpose to sustain this economy so that it does not reach only some. That is why we need to do everything we can in government to make sure our economy keeps growing. That requires congress to protect our mome
See the money in the bank account but they could not spend it until the reform was done. This shifted the political balance because all of a sudden people said they were supporting the subsidy reform because now they could use the cash transfers with incredible opportunity. For various other reasons it did not work out so well now the subsidies are back. I think having done it once there is a chance they might able to do it again. Dudash on the point of if it will be politically easier, it will be politically easier where the economic case is compelling. It can be in subsidies, but it is especially compelling in the whole Energy Sector where there will be they will be desperate to attract Foreign Investment. The kind of oil regime that they have and they are moving in the direction desired by International Oil companies. In general they will be looking for Foreign Investment because there are many good reasons to get Foreign Investment. Particularly Foreign Investment which is a genera
If you have ever been up in the arctic, its a difficult environment. When your car breaks down it, you just leave it there. Imagine the massive military might that was up there. All along these islands, you see it. Military all over the place. They have announced projects to clean some of these spaces. Its going to take a long time. They are doing it. They created more preserves and sanctuaries and so forth. In that sense, its not like russia ignores the environment entirely. Really the soviet tradition. Easier to create National Parks that are protected from any kind of human activity. Territory. Huge it it is free of charge. The decision does not tackle the big issues, but there are some initiatives in terms of waste from the soviet system. Modest. Ry theireel pressure by issues globally. , i dont think nato can be a solution in the arctic. Cooperation,of russia is cooperating with japanese and korean. Korea is becoming very active. The three Asian Countries plus russia have fishing