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June 21, 2024
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard...
June 21, 2024
And maintaining old systems that we think we can do a better job by modernizing the system and reducing our costs. In many cases we think we can have substantial reductions by upgrading to newer systems than to pay legacy costs. This becomes a Cyber Security concern as well. When you have systems running on old, old systems including the fact that microsoft is no longer supporting serving 2003, but your systems are built on that, if youre not upgrading them youre going to increase your signer vu...
June 21, 2024
And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you ex...
June 21, 2024
And theres some wonderful programs around the country, about 30 of jobs by 2018 will require some kind of technical training. So im establishing a Deficit Neutral Reserve Fund to advance this priority, and i believe both senators baldwin and portman are cosponsoring. I dont see any rebuttal. There is a vote in progress. So well recess now until 1 30. At 1 30 well begin the vote process. You can go and vote, get some lunch. For republican senators, were going to meet in the ante room out here at ...
June 21, 2024
Care situation, where they see a doctor, an officer in a clinic. It is much more efficient for their health and as a result will be better for the taxpayer. But those are the tough conversations that we needed to have to deal the issues. Anything else you might want to do to deal with those issues has to come out of that 29 . We are underselling of the National Defense right now, we are going from a 600 ship navy to a 260 ship navy in a world that is more dangerous and then anytime and my life. ...
June 21, 2024
It is our identity. Today it is in doubt. There are millions of americans who are started to believe we are no longer that country. You either know them or you are them. You are living paycheck to paycheck. Now the jobs do not go far enough. They literally live one unexpected expense away from disaster. The young people who did everything we asked, and other cannot find a job. The person trying to start a business out of their home, it is in violation of zoning codes but it is a good business. [...
June 21, 2024
How would world war ii had ended . Not well. The cold war . Not well. What would my life had been like . That would not have been a place like america for my parents to go to. I told the story many times because to me it reminds me every single day of how unique this nation is. Throughout all of history, almost everyone who has lived has lived in a society that told you, you can only go as far as your parents went before you. Whatever they did, that is what is left. Here, that has not been the c...
June 21, 2024
He was so poor that when he was arrested, his parents couldnt make 3000 of bail. He spent three years in rikers. A 16yearold kid. Nobody deserves to be in prison for three years without a trial date. The sixth amendment says that you get a trial, it also says you get a speedy trial. I do not what happened to him in prison, i can only imagine. He tried to commit suicide four times. This should not happen america in america. It is this report shortly happening to blacks hispanics. You know what, i...
June 21, 2024
Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Dozens are arrested in baltimore as police clear defiant crowds. They are pushing people out of the plaza. Demonstrators took to the street to celebrate the six officers who are chargedn i the death of freddie gray. We have probable cause to file criminal charges. Weve got a baby. The royal duchess of cambridge fe saly delivered a daughter. A former close allie of new Jersey Governor Chris Christie David Wildstein pleaded guilty for hiles ro in traffic tieups ne...
June 20, 2024
Before it was possible for americans to go to the main land to study, i studied classical chinese and so the great writers, philosophers and thinkers at the time and then i ended up writing my dissertation about mao tsetung, so very im much in the contemporary era. So ive kind of done a lot of things in taiwan to shanghai where i taught at east China Normal University and later in hong kong, where im going again as a full writer. Okay thats good. How long did it take you to get through grad scho...