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Social security was much closer to going bankrupt and then it is today. The reason we have it today is the work the commission did, the surplus that was piled up in the intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and are drying it down pretty rapidly. An opportunity to do that again, if we could reform Something Like that, we prevented this for three consecutive congresses by this president could be the person who saves Social Security, put it on firm footing and i...

Earned it at this point. Thats right. We will keep the humidity level somewhat on the low side. Waking to good hair day thats right. Extra hair gel in case. Looking good. Looking pretty good today some clouds around early this morning, but dont worry well break out to sunshine in the afternoon. It does warm up progressing through the second half of the weekends. Not whole lot happening clouds over philadelphia, dry conditions right now little bit of different story the farther south and east you...

Regulation is 1. 9 trillion to 1. 9 trillion. These businesses pass on the cost of these regulations in the price of there products. Families are spending about 15,000 a year for businesses to comply with government regulation. I am sure that we can agree mr. Chair, the businesses need to be fairly regulated. But when those regulations are killing jobs that is just not right. Several years ago in aa highly partisan vote with very little republican support for 2300 page. Dot frank bill was passed...

The Mortgage Market issues where you wall discuss time to time whether allies have gone too far, whether theyve gone far enough. How can we answer questions at that data on the marketplace. That is different from a wind data on what senator vitter does. Personally identifiable data. We have personally identifiable data and consumer response where consumers can this data so we can work on their complaint and family constituents to your office collect personal viable data appeared to we. You dont ...

Subpar and illegal practices and providing almost 200 million in redressed 1. 6 million consumers. We have now handled, as we have mentioned, 650,000 complaints, a matter that is particularly important to us. This includes all manners of Financial Products and services. This includes each of the states. One excerpt from a Service Member in alabama reads that we open an account we became unable to pay the full amount and we made it an agreement to pay a lesser amount and campaign by allotment. An...

The door is an excellent door. Its very well fortified, and its completely deployed. Its everywhere. The one vulnerability is this period of time when you have to leave for essential purposes, even passing meals or access the bathroom on the aircraft. Even if its for a very short period of time, and we take steps to make sure its for the shortest period possible, that period is when were most vulnerable. The installing of a very costeffective barrier, were talking 5,000 to 12,000 per aircraft on...

Spends its funds because the cfpb operates outside of the appropriations process. Even the Federal Reserve which funds the cfpb from its earnings does not control the bureaus budget. Because congress cannot tighten the financial reins when Budgeting Issues arise the bureaus current structure makes meaningful congressional oversight very difficult. Socalled independence is one reason cited by the authors of dodd frank for the bureau structure. But other independent agencies such as the securities...

Your name. In annapolis its a big deal. People talk about it all the time. A lot of concern from Business Owners and what are we doing to address it. But we have a plan in place. We just need the funding to implement it going forward. Okay. Im going to skip mr. Baker because my questions were about rock fish and striped bass. And i think you mentioned that on the one hand, you know rock fish are back. But on the other hand whats happening in terms of Climate Change could severely impact them. Di...

Implement it going forward. Okay. Im going to skip mr. Baker because my questions were about rock fish and striped bass. And i think you mentioned that on the one hand, you know rock fish are back. But on the other hand whats happening in terms of Climate Change could severely impact them. Did you want to add to that . One of the being concerns is a wasting disease. There is no real absolute knowledge as to what causes it. But we know that when fish are stressed, theyre more prone to disease. So...

Your apples are ripe. It is time to harvest them. What is the best way to harvest those apples . Do you pick them from the tree or do you chop down the tree . Apples are income. The trees are capital. The reason we want a socalled, consumptionbased tax because we dont want to mistreat capital. But to understand why it is so foolish, dont think about marxism, socialism, free market theories think about it this way, if you chop down the tree or more accurately what the current tax system does if y...