He was questioned by House Budget Committee members related to Economic Growth and Government Spending. This is just over two hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome on the congressional hearing on the offices budget and outlook. I want to thank everyone for being here this morning. Were holding this hearing today to discuss the congressional budget offices economic out look which gives us a look at our spending, National Debt and how the economy is going to perform over the next decade. It forms the cornerstone of the work we do here at the House Budget Committee and i want that thank for their hard work and would also like to welcome director hall. I do appreciate you taking the time to testify today and look forward to your insight as we discuss this report. The discussion we will have today is a serious one because as cbo indicate we face economic challenges. Deficits are beginning to rise and Economic Growth continues to be sub par. Legacies of the last Administration Polic
No question that on both fronts there were some pretty horrific battles. Yes, sir. Playing into macarthur with the savior complex, i shall return as opposed to week, was there any discussion . Theres a whole army behind us, who are you . I think that goes to the core of douglas macarthur. There was a suggestion, after he said eyes shall return, there was a suggestion by fdr and marshall, wouldnt it be great if we could say we shall return. Thats you sounds a lot more collaborative, but again, thats not macarthurs personality. To his credit, he took it personally that he would go back and do it. It was a personal charge to him. To your point earlier, about operations and things, you have to remember that mcarthurs father in the civil war which is where i begin the the book, because i think its instructive and a lot of people have written about it but its instructive that his father really leads this great charge up Missionary Ridge during the civil war and it may not have been the great
So anybody watching doesnt ever end up at the water fountain the next day and sail my gosh, i dont know they thought that or somebody had that perspective or that point. That would change. So so to me that his role. T but what it does for me as it makes me bring my a game every time. I have to be prepared. If youre going up against bill riley, you want, you want to avoid be in the pinhead, big time. You will make sure you know what youre talking about have confidence in it before you engage in that conversation. So how does that affect the writing of the book . Pe it opens my eyes to the idea that i want to be sure that im considering, you heard craig a moment ago saint what it you include some of this on the womens issue. Again in my my mind, it does not match up with someone like a betty betty for dan in terms of prompting the way in which we have seen in america. Have yes bill oreilly to promote your book . Thats hard. But but bill wrote a blurb for the book and not only that, he ha
S. [inaudible] ultimately what hope for the book is that young man gets a sense of what it takes herself interrogation, to ask questions of oneself and ones identity and position in the world. I think that theres a pretty establish narrative for what it is to be a young black man and experience racism and White Supremacy of what that looks light. We have a body of literature that deals with that. We have the folklore. We have the oral history of what that looks like but i dont think weve worked on enough is for young black men and thinking through what it means to experience that but also be in a position in which your identity may be denying someone else humanity, to be a heterosexual black man that exist within the context of the patriarchy and homophobia and all these other things. How is it that youre wrestling with your position within that come. Implicit within that come and to say, my friend, its easy recognize whose boot is on your neck. Its much harder to recognize whose neck
Edition of booktv in primetime on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. For those who are new to the session, welcome to the 2016 roosevelt reading festival. So glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. I will talk for about a half hour, then about ten minutes of question and answer, and then hell go out and set up and be able to get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this ear year at the library. 75th every at 75th 75th anniversary at the end of the month, and this is something that franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt would be happy about. They want ted this site to be used as a center to bring people together to have a meaning philadelphia conversation. We have a membership table. We greatly appreciate it. The challenge we face here, with someone like david, is that he is highly accomplished and i could spend the next half hour talking bit his background but