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About these issues. I think it is a mistake for us to suggest that somehow every effort we make has failed and we are powerless to address poverty. Thats just not true. First of all, just in absolute terms, the poverty rate when you take into account tax and transfer programs, has been reduced about 40 since 1967. Now, that does not lessen our concern about communities where poverty remains chronic. It does suggest, though, that we have been able to lessen poverty when we decide we want to do something about it. In every lowincome Community Around the country, there are programs that work to p...

Ed rollins and it is going to get much worse. Howard dean it is a fraction of what it was before. The average age is well over 50. The average age of if you were on msnbc is 62 years old. On fox it is 68 years old. The bell curve stops at 35. No one over 35 watches any of this stuff. Facts [inaudible] [laughter] the truth of the matter is that all of this stuff, the evening route evening news, still the biggest way of getting the news out, is disappearing. We are in the big first quarter. For this problem of controlling messages, its only going to get more difficult as people get their news in...

Voters should say the highest priority issue is the income gap. Ask candidates what will you do about it and use your own common sense. Is that the right way to go . We need, as a country, not just from the top down, from across the grassroots, to focus on what we can do to reduce this opportunity gap. E. J. Dionne mr. President , i want you to reflect on this religious question. One of your forced salaries paid for by a group of catholic churches. Not a lot of catholic bishops noticed that. You were organizing or a group of southside churches. You know what faithbased groups can do. Talk abou...

Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch of amendments and maybe final passage of this trade promotion authority, which would pave the way for...

Happening in washington and watching the dysfunction in this nation, i think that the major motivation for running for office had to be more out of frustration than anything else. Theties parity, the inconsistency in pl policies, decisions being made that lack i think, the Public Interest and are being made more so as a result of political decisions. Unfortunately, what im going to talk about tonight i dont think will be the only subject i come back and talk about over the next several months. It seems that often times the federal governments decisions, policies regulations seem to lack any ty...