Burn an entire town to the ground you get off with just a slap on the wrists and a little bit of a fine at least thats the case of the pacific gas and Electric Company the 85000000000. 00 natural gas and electric provider behind the devastating 2800. 00 camp fire in california you remember that fire that was the fire that leveled the town of paradise california is considered the most devastating wildfire in the states long history yes after the c. E. O. Of p. G. D. Pled guilty on behalf of the company to 84 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and one count of illegally causing the fire earlier this week a california judge thursday passed down the most brutal of fine of 3500000. 00 for this companys crimes 85000000000. 00 company. 3500000. 00 fine 84. 00 people dead town burned to the ground not a single hour of jail time for any of the executives that my friends is the reality of law and order here in these United States of america and in many other places around the world and that is w
Already is and most definitely will be one of the big rallying cry you will be subjected to over and over and over and over and over again as we get deeper into the 2020 u. S. Election cycle so lets just for a moment examine how law and order works here in the United States as of America Imagine we are aliens looking down at earth from mars or its a terrific you lie and trying to understand just how punishment and justice here in the us is based in these last few to news cycles what would we see well weve learned that if authorities thought you passed off a fake 20. 00 bill youd be tortured and put to death and under 9 minutes as punishment or that update group of heavily armed police break into your home in the middle of the night without warning or identification and you and your boyfriend stand up to them they have every right to shoot you dead on the spot. But. If you kill 84. 00 people and burn an entire town to the ground you get off with just a slap on the wrists and a little bi
Learn that if authorities thought you passed off a fake 20 dollar bill youd be tortured and put to death and under 9 minutes as punishment or that if a group of heavily armed police break into your home in the middle of the night without warning or identification and you and your boyfriend stand up to them they have every right to shoot you dead on the spot but. If you kill 84. 00 people and burn an entire town to the ground you get off with just a slap on the wrist and a little bit of a fine at least thats the case if youre the pacific gas and Electric Company the 85000000000. 00 natural gas and electric provider behind the devastating 2018 camp fire in california you remember that fire that was the fire that leveled the town of paradise california is considered the most devastating wildfire in the states long history yes after the c. E. O. Of p. G. D. Pled guilty on behalf of the company to 84 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and one count of illegal because in the fire earlier thi
Americans are still spending and they still have the money to spend. David and they are optimistic. Mike not only did they hang in the numbers showed the lowest Inflation Expectation in history for consumers over the next five years, just 2. 2 . Whetheris worried about Inflation Expectations get on board. T makes the on board unmoored. For is something to look in 2020. Kevin now we are going to in los angeles. What were the principal takeaways . Kevin im not sure there were major changes in the dynamic of the race. Two things coming from joe biden. He was able to successfully contrast himself to Bernie Sanders on medicare for all. After the debate, i spoke with some officials in the campaign that said they were satisfied with that aspect of the performance. I would note how he talked about china. He would want to work with the united nations, a contrast with the current status quo. Now we go over to london. We have a new head of the bank of england. What do we know about him . Andrew b
And most importantly, i want to thank all of you for taking time out of saturday to have this conversation. This is your hour and a half and i will leave the vast bulk of the time for your questions, your comments, your suggestions. I want to open with just a couple of minutes of context and things that i see happening in washington and then i will turn it over entirely to you. The way that we will do that is that there are microphones on either side of the room. And rather than having me picking and choosing within the audience, please just line up behind the microphones if you in fact have a question or a comment. I will ask you to be brief in your questions or observations and i will be brief in my responses because we probably will have lots of people who want to be heard. Other thing i want to say is just so you know, we agreed to allow cspan to record this town hall meeting. I had no doubt whatsoever that we could show the country the kind of thoughtful and respectful civil dialo