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Or mismanaged for many, many years. this country is being mismanaged. you know, maybe detroit is just a smaller image of what this country is, because we have the same thinking with the united states as they had in detroit. now, detroit had no choice and its going to be interesting to see what happens. you have a judge now saying they cant do that. but of course what difference does it make, theyre not going to pay, they dont have the money, they have nothing, and they have to do it. and theyre ...

Manufactured today is gps capable. and every major cell phone carrier has a -- has a family finder program so that you can track the activities of your child via their cell phone. the problem is, is that only tracks the device itself. so if the child is in trouble, somebody does take the child, quite likely the perpetrator will take the phone and toss it out the window. but then again the phone also provides kids and parents with 24/7 connectivity. >> but you advise all parents have that convers...

Last year of black people, almost half of the total and 96% of those homicides were killed by other black people. the fact is when theres violent black-white crime it is almost always a black perpetrator between 80% and 90% of the time and a white victim. what happened on that night in february of last year was a very, very bizarre aberrant kind of thing and the president made it a referendum on race. i think it was completely inappropriate. >>steve: it doesnt really move -- it kicks the can dow...

Was about to expire. similarly, success was not inevitable when he raised the drinking age to 21 in all states when there was growing concern about drunk driving. when he sponsored one gun control measure enacted. some of them more recent ones not. a time when public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of safety measures that cannot seem to pass, he is more relevant than ever. his finest moments represent liberalism at its best and he was an unapologetic liberal who understood how progress happen...

Expire. similarly, success was not inevitable when he raised the drinking age to 21 in all states when there was growing concern about drunk driving. some of them enactioned and more recent ones not. a time when public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of safety measures that cannot seem to pass, hooey is more relevant than ever. his finest moments represent liberalism at its best and he was an unapologetic liberal who understood how progress happens. you identify a social problem and people ge...

Total ban in 1987 when the law was about to expire. similarly, success was not inevitable when he raised the drinking age to 21 in all states when there was growing concern about drunk driving. when he sponsored one gun control measure enacted. some of them more recent ones not. a time when public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of safety measures that cannot seem to pass, he is more relevant than ever. his finest moments represent liberalism at its best and he was an unapologetic liberal who...

The parts of their lives that matter the most and we know which kinds of people work well together for long-term relationships. so we match them up. when they go and get married, it typically works really well. it seems a little odd to say, but we think that divorce, marital separation and turnover in the workplace is a very similar kind of problem. its basically borne out of a relationship thats incompatible. you get a job seeker and they dont belong together in the first place so you great lot...

Streets, we as a society have to treat the problem as a social problem. not a criminal justice problem. we have to provide mental health services to those who need it. we have to provide drug treatment programs for those who need it in public housing. we cant make it a crime to be homeless. homelessness is not going to go away by making it illegal. >> michael steinberg, i sew appreciate that point. it dovetails to what we were talking about. we have a set of social responsibilities, epidemiologi...

And what seem to be policies that might relate to them as a social problem. ezra, of course is a policy guy. so he was looking at this through a policy lens. and the data it turns out, some of it is what you might suspect. but some of it really isnt. for example, we all know that there are a lot of mass killings in the united states. gun violence where multiple people are killed by the same assailant. this year alone before what happen today in connecticut, five people were killed in an atlanta ...

Instead of saying liberal or anything like that or socialist i just say peoplist. stop add gjek tating and trying to get divided so we never solve any problems. >> but you are one of the big agitate tors. is this a new years resolution. >> i do have a new years resolution stop controversial blogging and lose weight. >> all right. because you have been agitate tore. you dont like ronald reagan. >> no. i dont like him. i dont like the i dont like him. >> what did he do wrong? >> cut off social pro...