A packed house. I do not know if i have ever seen in the auditorium this full. You draw an audience. It is a slow news cycle in south asia, so this is surprising. We are very excited to have the ambassador here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce before i introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. But we do have some heritage products in the u. S. Relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the u. S. Government. We releasedt night a new paper, navigating differences and consolidated reviewing some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term modi. Dy and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big conference on indiau. S. Relations in partnership with the O
Ambassador Vardhan Shringla here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. We do have some heritage products in the us relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the Us Government and released navigating differences and consolidated which look at the reelection reviewed some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big conference on india us relations, partnership with the Research Foundation and independent think tank and stay tuned, several members of congress under parliament from india, expecting a big impact for that conference. And also, india us israel trilateral Strategic Di
Engagement and skilled museum organization. So as alex said were currently woring with the [stkaoeupbl ] Design Task Force to develop the vision into a design and build this small installation project by the end of september. But we really hope that this project catalyzes a larger process. We have so much momentum with this partnership right now, green streets exploratorium and rec and park and hope it can turn into a larger planning process and Capital Improvement process and being even more of a Great Community space for the Western Addition, and for san franciscans. Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] hi. I am shaun with the city for public spaces at the exploratorium. We started this work about ten years ago based on a National Science Foundation Grant with fort mason. Their notion was that if the exploratorium is important to people about they come to the exploratorium, maybe we should try going out to where the people live and where they are all the time. So this started a traject
They made their taxes lower, and far lower in many cases than ours and jobs left our country. Large corporations changed their Business Models by exploiting jobs to other countries and then shipping their goods back to the United States where they make massive profits and they wouldnt be paying tax to us either so we lost the jobs, we lost the taxes, they closed the buildings, they closed the plants and factories, we got nothing but unemployment we got nothing other businesses, even classic American Brands switch their headquarters to foreign countries. Because of this and other reasons like weak borders, america remains stuck in the past although i have to tell you, we have general kelly here today, and we stopped 78 going up to 80 on the border traffic coming through. In just a short period of time [ applause ] hes done some job whole different world out there right now. Today, we are still taxing our businesses at 35 and its way more than that and think of it, in some cases, way abo
Brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Government engaging. But there really are metaissues that are incoming this week informing this week. Does the United States have what it takes to build and retrofit a new generatio