Page 39 - Incentive Structure News Today

There and, you know, i guess the other piece of it is, you know, we have these feelings, and i think parent of the problem is, youve heard me say, ethic, the reality of the nature of the threats we face, law and technology, have not kept up. i mean, what if what were talks about is the listening on on conversations weve had could have prevented the boston bombing. are any one of us going to look at people who lost limbs and say, too bad, sorry? im very uncomfortable with this. >> you just said i...

We have these feelings, and i think parent of the problem is, youve heard me say, ethic, the reality of the nature of the threats we face, law and technology, have not kept up. i mean, what if what were talks about is the listening on on conversations weve had could have prevented the boston bombing. are any one of us going to look at people who lost limbs and say, too bad, sorry? im very uncomfortable with this. >> you just said it right there, to any, precisely illustrates the problem with the...

Youve heard me say, ethic, the reality of the nature of the threats we face, law and technology, have not kept up. i mean, what if were whatever were talking about is the listening on an conversation weve had could have prevend the boston bombing. are any one of us going to look at people who lost limbs and say, too bad, sorry? im very uncomfortable with this. >> you just said it right there, to any, precisely illustrates the problem with the incentive structure inside the government for secrecy...

Can go suck on my machine gun. the second half of the statement in 2007 was, hillary clinton can ride my machine guns into the sunset. shes a worthless rhymes with witch. now, i dont know when it becomes acceptable as we debate guns and other things to have people like that appear at conferences -- >> hes paid for by the nra. they fund him. they invite him. >> i always hate to say that the gold old days are actually better than they are now. i wonder when our national discourse took a turn when ...

Fundamentally you outsource expertise, delegate authorities but you cannot delegate leadership. when you see a problem, get off the sidelines and get into the game and fix it. if we had much more of that across the republic, frankly, a lot of these problems would be a little easier to solve. >> leadership is not a long-term sustainable solution to these problems. if the problems are incentive structure, imbalance of power. its how you change it. i think how you -- im really worried about the aff...

It, things are getting better? >> before the election, the in-sin stiin incentive for republicans was to down play the economy. so once the election was a pay take com pli, youd think the incentive would change because the next person up for re-election, if youre a republican member of congress, is you. its not president obama. hes done having elections. youre the next one up. so you would think talking up the economy is a good idea. but theyre still not doing it. part is the incentive structure...

The only one who can fix it. once the election was a fait accompli, you would think the incentive would change because the next person up for re-election if youre a republican member of congress is you. its not president obama. hes done having elections. youre the next one up, so you would think talking up improvement in the economy and your participation would be a good idea, but theyre still not doing it. i think part of it is the incentive structure, the republican party is now so weighted on...

A justification for then going after medicare, medicaid? will they ever accept the need to do the entitlements based on some reasonable number of tax reforms? i just dont see them as commensurate. >> the presidents not going after medicaid. and with -- >> no, the republicans would like to do it. >> they do want to go after medicaid. the republican house budget just wallops medicaid. it did last night. it probably will do it again. on medicare we just have a different in approach. we all recogniz...

Members of the black caucus. are they going to be satisfied with some kind of tax reform as a justification for then going after medicare, medicaid? will they ever accept the need to do the entitlements based on some reasonable number of tax reforms? i just dont see them as commensurate. >> the presidents not going after medicaid. and with -- >> no, the republicans would like to do it. >> they do want to go after medicaid. the republican house budget just wallops medicaid. it did last night. it ...

The talking post memo or on the right. the outlets seem more committed. i have seen that with a bunch of new iterations. there is things like that that have announced themselves with an intention of being that, but the incentive structure of what gets you clicks and fund-raising pushes people. >> let me jump in here as someone who works with blogs online and thats my brief and the history of how these things grew out. online media was very activist on the left and the right. you started seeing m...