An alternate they are foye pair with their cessation of opiates. I would like you to respond to something that weve heard the secretary say and read about in the press that he has 28,000 positions to fill in the vha. Its something it was reiterated in the hearing here. Then when the Ranking Member and i and some other members of congress in the senate were in your command and control center on the eighth floor a few weeks back, weve heard that number was not 28,000, that it was 50,000 positions to be filled at the vha. Could you confirm that number and could you tell me how youre prioritizing those hires . And obviously im getting to if we have a crisis in Mental Health and were treating all hires the same, we have a problem. If youre prioritizing Mental Health, heres a chance to tell this committee and the public at large. So i did not hear the number 50,000. Ill have to check on that and get back to you drekly. I think that would probably be the easiest way to say that. With 300,000
The city so we did not know. One thing we do now is counted everything. In the mirrorook at yourself. You may not mind but i mind. You look at yourself and analyze yourself and make a forensic study. Stripped down and done that and there are some things we so we did not like. Allisons team put the numbers together. 52 anybody know how much is . 38,600 people who are not working. Is thing we are doing something called a pathway to prosperity. We are trying to find the individuals, the man. They are not all the same individuals. They are different ages and it and live in different neighborhoods and their are different parts of their life and some of them did not get through high school domicile them some of them graduated. We are terrible about this and america all over the country. We need workforce to relevant and training. In schools we say everyone should go to college. Not everyone is going but its a great aspiration. Some of our kids went and got 75 million scholarships. Thats grea
Principals and superintendents to say that you have kids in the region qualifying yet only 40 kids are taking it. N you look at your taxes when i had to subsidize my classrooms, it made me very angry. Andy, what is your take on these results . Well, Big Questions about what the future of state and federal policy are going to look like. It looks like the nation is rebelling 35, maybe 40 years of the drift of policy on this. What i mean is there is a sense that americas local system of schools werent getting the job done in the way we need them to. Say, the late 1970s, early 1980s, scores on the sats and so forth. There has been this impulse to centralize more and more. We have the accountability movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The apotheosis of accountability. Top,we had race to the where we get more and more power in the State Government and at the federal government. Going through these results, it is remarkable i use the term technocrat, the idea that a central administrator with T
Which is a country that is working currently. And so, one of the major issues for about the process has been the cndfde ruling party created the wing for its Political Party to sort of act as sort of its a very militarized wing of the Political Party and they act as goons essentially. Based on they strongarmed people into behaving in a way that the party wants them to behave. They dressed as policemen and basically initiate violent confrontation with the protesters in an effort to have everything spiral out of control. So that is somewhat of an extreme example although with a lot of the rebel movements that are very active in eastern congo and in the Great Lakes Region there are other forms that are equally extreme. Where i think that becomes attractive to the youth to join is again we are talking about those that dont have much in the way of opportunities otherwise and we are also talking about political systems in which resources are very concentrated in the political system thats no
Working on this war without trying to negotiate an end. I had come back from paris, we were trying to do the exact thing. But you couldnt mention it. Couldnt mention it. Whose decision was it to make these talks secret . So was it so you could advance more who had the courage to do it. We felt you cannot make progress, propaganda, with the whole world watching. Youve got to do it secretly. I think the North Vietnamese werent that interested in negotiations, except as a tactic to wear us out or to see whether we could make the kind of deal they could live with. They didnt want to accused by the vietcong and others of being overly soft. What do you think, joe . I think here winston and i may differ slightly. I think its important to have secret negotiations. They accompany almost any negotiation about a serious issue. But i think henry had a somewhat expansive view of that, which is keeping it secret. Thats a different issue. I meant the public. I understand. My point is, for him secret