The opportunity to strike a new grand bargain that leverages more efficient donor action to parallel changes and u. N. Agency so that collectively we are more strategic and more effective and more efficient and more nimble. We will also have the opportunity and the obligation to grapple headon with the sharp decline and adherence to basic humanitarian doctrine and the fact that the greatest impediment to reaching people in need in chronic conflicts today is the willful denial of humanitarian access by all parties. Second, in september, president obama will host a summit on refugees on the margins of the u. N. General assembly. Theres no question that the global refugee crisis putting the host countries to the test and it is also putting people to the test. Most refugees face futures without education or jobs or the hope of normalcy, often for a generation. Unfortunately, the debate on the global refugee crisis has sparked has been more about rhetoric. Some of it hateful than about solu
Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
Time i think about those kids it gets me mad. Mad. Both republicans and democrats see the executive actions as an opportunity to generate enthusiasm among primary voters. Cbs 2 news spoke with the owner of cedar valley outfitters. He belilies solely blaming the issue on guns is not the answer its easy for people to sit around and say theyre mad about violence, i dont like violence. I watched the pictures of the victims you know after sandy hook and they had stories of each kid and put their pictures on there. Im a parent of two children. Do i get emotional about it . Yes. The only thing i dont do is blame an inaninite object. But the president s action also includes spending 500 Million Dollars to increase access to both Mental Health Health Patients for background checks. He called on different agencies to report more data to the National Instant criminal background check system. New federal numbers show in 2015, gun permits requiring background checks, jumped to the highest level inc
They h h totoay. Matt. Amid all the debate today this really is the only new wrinkle. The impact of Mental Health on gun violence is e long runnininconcern thats rarely talked about until after the shooting stops. Stops. Twenty innocent children killed at sandy hook. A dozen movie goerermurdered in colorado. Just two of the Mass Shootings linked to Mental Illness. Illness. Its a very ticklish issue. And confidentiality. Bang. Bang Jeremy Brigham m ys his three hundred members with iowans for gun safety have worked hard he says the president had to do something and the mentally ill having access to guns is part of the problem. Problem. If family members would come to them and say this person shouldnt have a gun, sheriffs should be a ble to do that and make a decision. I is huge people are been tabu for too long. Joan becker has lived the tragedy. Her son mark struggling with Mental Illness shototand killed belolod coach ed thomas in 2009. She now advocates for more accessible counseling
Other efforts . A Super Committee [indiscernible] all these issues around transparency and oversight [indiscernible] and the way forward. Thank you. I do not know. I would be curious to hear what those kindss is and of programs. Is there a blueprint . I hesitate to say there is a blueprint because that sounds so concrete and fixed. There are certainly those conversations going on. They go on between the iraqi authorities and key institutional donors and Civil Society groups. And iraqi organizations. If you take the example of how do you program most effectively to stabilize areas that have recently been retaken from isis, for example. Within those conversations all are looking at this issue seriously and developing their own strategies for engagement. I think one of the kind of key messages of this research is within that conversation and within that roadmapping and blueprinting. The necessityet bignvesting equally as evidence and Civil Societys role in governments as you might invest