I would not say everything is fine. I guess with the fed would do is the regulations. The others interesting in light of the earlier question which is gary mentioned the idea of distinguishing at the treasurys insight mark getting functioning perks had they done that maybe they would not have kept it song in 2020. Quick as a reason why. We have to go but thank you very much. Thank you so much i love we are colorcoded. We did that on purpose. [laughter] and thank you so much. [applause] thank you to ai into the other cohost for having us here today. Not enough discussions and digging down deeper into some of the Drivers Behind it. We at the partisan center been working position for many, many years unfortunately not much is changed we ran a Debt Reduction task force way back in 2010 that was the shadow condition that president obama sat up. A few of those recommendations were enacted but many were not particular on an issue at door talking about in this panel, Social Security. At bbc ma
Victory. I love you, all. We are having fun. When i heard the polls today they said what are you going to do . I said i am not leaving iowa. I am going to work harder. If i lose iowa i will never speak to you people again. Okay. Lets do a couple questions. Where is that mike . Nice questions. Vicious. You can ask me anything you want. You any tana . You got a good one for him . Go ahead. How are you . Good. Thank you. I want you to know i am married, eight children, stay at home wife and average income. I want to know with the war on poverty we spent 20 trillion, yet the poverty lines are the same. I made good choices, a lot of people do, we pay for people to make bad choices, what are you going to do cut some of that out . We have now and the numbers came out we have 50 Million People in poverty in this country. You look like you are doing well in fairness. We have 50 million. 46 Million People getting food stamps. We talk about how well we are doing. Almost 50 million between poverty
There is no better i can write that will not be insulting to those people. Dear miss so and so, i dont need your money, thanks a lot. If where got that back i would say who the hell does he think he is . We take that and it is important. I preface by saying i dont consider that funding. I am selffunding my campaign and i am getting ready to put up millions. Millions. [applause] something i am very proud of, that i think it is great, it has been really great, but i have spent less money than any other candidate by far. I think. I dont know. Probably a couple guys have nothing so they go around but i was told i spent less. I had the best result because in most polls i am number one. Until iowa came along, i was like, what the hell are you people doing to me . They said why dont you skip iowa. He said would you think of skipping ohio and going to New Hampshire and then South Carolina where i am leading. You ought to see the rallies there. You do the nevada but i cannot do that because i h
It easier to be able to establish some distance. Clintons attitude was just different. Their view of the world was different, their view of israel and the place in the world was different, and it did not mean that president obama did not feel that it was not in israels interest to be isolated. In fact, they would say that , but he also saw a benefit and being prepared to establish some distance when he felt there were real disagreements. You work so closely with both. I think him as i said earlier, i do do think that the context is entirely different. Remember, then Prime Minister netanyahu was succeeded in 1990. Preceded. Preceded. Prime minister after the assassination. Right. So the context was entirely different. The us position in the middle east was entirely different. And the politics in israel was entirely different which i think is a fair point. Succeeding and moving toward camp david prepared to make unprecedented offers to the presidency for palestinians. After the decade of
In a lot of ways obama does feel israel is a special state, but he is worried that somehow they are not living up to his values. What do you think about the spectrum and where the president is . I would say number one, the contour of the debate and policy approaches have changed pretty dramatically since eisenhower and a certain assessment that has been made, indeed, the four corners,corners, if you will, the guideposts had changed pretty dramatically since then. Number two, as was said from the outset, the pres. Outset, the president made it clear that he had an absolute commitment to israels security. Indeed, if we were going to pursue a peace effort, that was absolutely essential that israel could not be expected to take the steps and risks toward peace that would be required absent the United States providing that kind of clear assurance and to see manifested can greatly across a range of projects. Number three, i do think that the president has an emotional attachment israel. And