Millions of people to florida in the 19 twenties and the development of the states wetlands. Good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us this evening to support your local independent bookstore maybe not so beautiful tonight. We appreciate you being here for that in the silent position we appreciate it. We will send you ever emails about what goes on here at this location i dont know if youve been down to Coconut Grove but we have a new store down there and another one worth mentioning on january 26 you can buy tickets and any number of events you can visit us we do podcast with a lot of the authors usually do that by accessing the webpage. Mr. Christopher for knowlton and how it brought on the Great Depression. A former staff writer for Fortune Magazine and spent 13 years in the Investment Business the Hidden History of the cowboy west. [applause] thank you steve and i appreciate you coming. Its good to be back in coral gables. It seems like just yesterday i was her researching t
If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. You can also post a comment on facebook. Com cspan. The folks at the Pew Research Center have a report out with a inakdown the 3. 95 trillion federal spending. Social security makes up 24 of that spending. Medicare, 15 . Other types of health care, 50 . Income security, 13 . Veterans business benefit 5 . Education, 3 . National defense, they save 15 of the budget. Net interest, 6 . The headline to the piece says, what does the federal government spend your tax dollars on . Social Insurance Programs mostly. Paul ryan, the speaker of the house, boasted on a radio show about teh the future. Here is what he had to say. We will get to paul ryan in a seconds, but read a bit from the Weekly Standard first. He says that following the tax bill, ryan is not one to bask in the glow of past accomplishments. I asked about his priorities for 2018. He named three. Surprisingly, health care reform. I dont think the Health Care Issue is done, he said,
Bay, and in both instances it looks perfectly appropriate for the building. So i think those are some of the things that i see. I am not opposed to letting this rest for a few more weeks. We do not have to take it up in early january, but certainly i would like the continued dialogue between the comment and community and the developer. This is appropriate use and i see nothing wrong with a building that develop these 27 units, brings 27 new families that will add vitality to the neighborhood. I think that is a very valuable improvement and we have been done the road about the church and how expensive it would be to try to retrofit it. It doesnt economically seem to make a lot of sense. And this is a private project, too. This is not a cityowned project. This is not a project being done by an affordable nonprofit. This is a private project and there is they are responsible to be receptive to the neighborhood and build something that is appropriate to the neighborhood and is supported by