employment. we need to get people back to work in order to get the economy moving again, because the problem now is you don t have the demand, and you need to get people on the payroll so they are paying taxes again, and that begins to alleviate some of your deficit problems. it s that point you can pivot, to use a term the obama administration likes to use, you can begin to pivot to deficit reduction, but right now we should be borrowing money at these historically low interest rates to invest in the economy, infrastructure and that sort of thing, to put people back to work. i also think this will never pass in a million years, but i also think we have such an employment crisis in this country that we need direct government job creation to put some people, and especially a lot of young people who are disconnected from the workforce entirely, to put them back to
long-term debt problem in this country, the big problem in the short to medium-term is employment. we need to get people back to work in order to get the economy moving again, because the problem now is you don t have the demand, and you need to get people on the payroll so they are paying taxes again, and that begins to alleviate some of your deficit problems. it s that point you can pivot, to use a term the obama administration likes to use, you can begin to pivot to deficit reduction, but right now we should be borrowing money at these historically low interest rates to invest in the economy, infrastructure and that sort of thing, to put people back to work. i also think this will never pass in a million years, but i also think we have such an employment crisis in this country that we need direct government job creation to put some people, and especially a lot of young people who are disconnected from the workforce
structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun off portable tornadoes and strong winds damaged at least 20 homes in thewn the television say, tornado warning, and about that time, we had an ungodly clap of lightning and the hard ligwind by. lights went out, came back on and everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. breaking news on the political front. texas gov senior riernor rick p poultd pulled out of a political forum in south carolina to go back to texas to deal with the wildfires. five others will take part in the
mixed views to some extent. i m enormously proud to be an american. and to have had the opportunity to serve. i think the potential is virtually unlimited in terms of the future of this nation and what we can accomplish and achieve. by the same token i m concerned about the problems we see today. this long term debt problem is important. i sense also that it is important that we not as we try to deal with those deficit problems, lose sight of the importance of maintaining our nation s security. i think that is our number one obligation and responsibility as a government. i worry in this rush to get our deficit problem solved, which is very important that we will end up in a situation where the defense department in effect bears the burden rather than the domestic side of the house. i think that would be unfortunate. but i think the next generation will have
mixed views to some extent. i m enormously proud to be an american. and to have had the opportunity to serve. i think the potential is virtually unlimited in terms of the future of this nation and what we can accomplish and achieve. by the same token i m concerned about the problems we see today. this long term debt problem is important. i sense also that it is important that we not as we try to deal with those deficit problems, lose sight of the importance of maintaining our nation s security. i think that is our number one obligation and responsibility as a government. i worry in this rush to get our deficit problem solved, which is very important that we will end up in a situation where the defense department in effect bears the burden rather than the domestic side of the house. i think that would be unfortunate. but i think the next generation will have