The time we act first and study later. We have been engaged in this war against extremism for the last 13 years. We have no strategy. Almost everything was being handled by the military. And a lot of it was off the cuff. A lot of it was knee jerk. There were a lot of problems on who was responsible and who was accountable. So for the first time when i took over when this government took office i think one of the first imperatives for all of us was to have a strategy, have a policy. So that is the reason we worked almost six months. We worked with the military, we worked with the provinces, the provinces are a very, very important part in the whole organizational setup, and it was difficult. It was easier working with the military. It was more difficult working with my fellow colleagues in the provinces. We worked with a whole lot of experts, with the media, National Security experts, and it took us almost seven to eight months to come up with this policy. Part of it was implemented. Yo
Shows the way in which people are actually equally qualified can be put in an environment in which the context will do something within them that actually makes them perform less well than they would in another context and this been replicated in scores of studies. It applies not just to members of traditionally disadvantaged groups like women on difficult math test, for example. If you tell them nothing they will do as well as the men. If you remove that stereotype threat by saying, host of the time women dont do as well as men on difficult tasks but thats not true at this particular test the scores will be less. The same with white men playing basketball against the black man or white men doing against asians et cetera. So what would it mean to try to disrupt these processes of different creation . Well again, here i would have to refer to a lot of the social Science Literature but let me give you a few quick examples. First of all the rationale for affirmative action changes. Its no
About simplification and complexity. So those are three issues, therefore. The base, the rate and complexity simplification. On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer from the ways and Means Committee here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher t
Here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher than id like but at least that gets you to saying were not being competitive by being around their average. Were not higher, lower or average. That seems to be a narrative i wound send. Im going to disagree in one sm
Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blumenthal mentioned, if they are not prepared to come to the table you think youve done well by getting the prices down by half, im not impressed. Paying 540 bucks per pill for people who defended our country. You sit down with them and say youre prepared to use 28 usc 1498 to break the patterns on these drugs unless they are prepared to come down significantly lower than they are right now. Its not a question of taking money. I know youve requested to take money out of the Choice Program. Maybe t