Environmental degradation is lowered. Which is exactly what the Free Trade Agreement motives have done. In all of the countries. I believe there was a study done that showed that countries in which we did not have free trade think we hadth, i a better balance of trade with those countries then the ones we have Free Trade Agreements with. Agreement,ree trade negotiated by george w. Bush, campaignedbama against it but once in office, he supported it. And he renegotiated certain sections of it. Pork andtions included beef, bacon products and auto parts. And after the korea free trade , not only issed the trade deficit greater with korea than it was before, those to areas are renegotiating be better had the highest trade deficit. Wherehave a situation theuse of the trade and nafta template, even when you try to make things better and you renegotiate something, it can turn out worse. We have the korea Free Trade Agreement, it is a Free Trade Agreement based on the nafta template. , which is
Wheels. Well begin on your phone calls makes u. S. Rade economy stronger or weaker. F you live in the pacific area 2027488001 and send us a tweet wj or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Lines are open so start dialling in. Well get to your thoughts here in a second. Bit more about the world trade bridge. We were down in lore raid dough april talking to u. S. Customs and Border Protection and other images pturing the youre seeing on your screen now of the world trade tpwreupblg. Screen are on your heading southbound into mexico. They are weighed and then tolled and the money that they get from lore goes to the city of raid dough. The city owning this international bridge, the world bridge, the fourth in the city of lore raid dough and the tolls goes et from into the city to pay for a variety of things. Bit about this port, the number one inland port along the u. S. Mexico border. Crosses into and allows the goods to go to warehouses that are within five miles of our location
Robert rubin, henry paulson, and tim geithner took part in this to global conference in beverly hills, moderated by Facebook Operations officer sheryl sandberg, who worked in the Clinton Administration era treasury department. This is an hour. Lets start our Luncheon Panel on the Global Economy. And we are delighted and honored to have a truly exceptional moderator for this Wonderful Group of former u. S. Treasury secretaries. Sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer of facebook, founder of leanin. Org, a Global Community empowering women to achieve their ambitions, the author of the bestseller lean in women, work, and the will to lead. She was president of Global Online sales and operations at google. We are delighted to have her, to have our panelists and you are in for a very enjoyable hour. So here they are. All yours. Sandberg thank you. Thank you. [applause] i am delighted to be here. Great to have a chance to moderate this panel of three such extraordinary man. And there are
A long time you took a test and you are tracked into that. You dont want a system where your future is determined for you buy a test. We want one where you have an interest or ability to do something, that takes you away from a traditional college, you should be able to do that. We see that within school choice. There are scarred Charter Schools where he can learn everything right down to underwater welding, which i dont have any experience with, but i understand it is pretty lucrative. You can get lots of valuable skills. Skills that cannot be easily outsourced. There is Something Else important which is that we have a lot of money going into Higher Education. By all indications, it is not translating into more learning. There is inflation the arms race and amenities and buildings. I think it is hard to make the argument we need more money. Maybe we needed better targeted. We need to allow people to choose what they think is best for them even before college. I agree with all of that.