Dimanche 30 octobre 2005
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"La France a été le premier pays à réagir par la voix du président de la
BNF. Jean-Noël Jeanneney avait appelé fin janvier à une «contre-attaque» européenne pour faire face à l’offre massive de «Google Print».
Selon lui, ce projet risque d’aboutir à «une domination écrasante de l’Amérique dans la définition de l’idée que les prochaines générations se feront du monde». L’appel du patron de la
BNF été entendu par le président français Jacques Chirac qui a proposé la création d’une bibliothèque numérique européenne. Avec le concours de cinq autres pays (Pologne, Allemagne,
Italie, Espagne et Hongrie) et de 19 grandes bibliothèques nationales, la France a demandé la semaine dernière aux instances de l'Union de prendre «appui sur les action de numérisation
déjà engagées par nombre de bibliothèques nationales, pour les mettre en réseau et constituer ce que l’on pourrait appeler une bibliothèque numérique européenne»"
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P.-V. se pose deslors la question (Hmmm!)
"Pourquoi alors, doit-on payer pour pouvoir
regarder, par le biais d'une parabole et d'un récepteur, les chaines publiques françaises (en numérique et décryptées)?"
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Dimanche 1 janvier 2006
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Mercredi 4 janvier 2006
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VIVE LA BEAUTE MUSICALE (non-chalante, fraîche, révolutionnaire et avant tout éternelle) DIVINE! VIVE MOZART!
Servus, und alles Gute Herr Schüssel!
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Lundi 9 janvier 2006
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CARACAS, Venezuela -
The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday.
"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.
The 78-year-old Belafonte, famous for his calypso-inspired music, including the "Day-O" song, was a close collaborator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and is now a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He also has been outspoken in criticizing the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
Chavez said he believes deeply in the struggle for justice by blacks, both in the U.S. and Venezuela.
"Although we may not believe it, there continues to be great discrimination here against black people," Chavez said, urging his government to redouble its efforts to prevent discrimination.
Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a "dictator," when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are "optimistic about their future."
Dolores Huerta, a pioneer of the United Farm Workers labor union also in the delegation, called the visit a "very deep experience."
Chavez accuses Bush of trying to overthrow him, pointing to intelligence documents released by the U.S. indicating that the CIA knew beforehand that dissident officers planned a short-lived 2002 coup. The U.S. denies involvement, but Chavez says Venezuela must be on guard.
Belafonte suggested setting up a youth exchange for Venezuelans and Americans. He finished by shouting in Spanish: "Viva la revolucion!?"
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Lundi 6 février 2006
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Quand le flux d'informations devient "imparfait"...
"Der Fernsehjournalist Bodo Hauser ist tot. Das teilte das ZDF am Freitag mit.
Hauser war gemeinsam mit Ulrich Kienzle bekannt geworden. Die beiden moderierten die ZDF-Sendung «Frontal». «Noch Fragen, Kienzle?» war das berühmteste Hauser-Zitat aus den Sendungen, die die beiden im Streitgespräch führten. Kienzle übernahm dabei den Part des linken und Hauser den des konservativen Gesprächspartners."
P.-V. dit:
"ars=Geschicklichkeit=Handwerk=Kunst
ars, artis, f. : - 1 - art, science, métier, profession. - 2 - ensemble des préceptes qui régissent un art, théorie, système, art (opposé à la nature), technique (d'un métier); rhétorique, grammaire. - 3 - talent, adresse, habileté (dans un art); objet d'art, oeuvre. - 4 - principe de conduite, procédé (bon ou mauvais), vertu ou vice; manière d'agir, moyen. - 5 - ruse, artifice, tactique, stratagème.>
"Die Zehn Gebote haben 279 Wörter, die amerikanische Unabhängigkeitserklärung hat 300 Wörter. Die EU-Verordnung zur Einfuhr von Karamelbonbons hat 25911 Wörter."
Bodo Hauser
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Mercredi 8 mars 2006
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"Nous livrons aujourd’hui la première guerre de l’ère des e-mails, des blogs, du blackberry, des messageries, des appareils photo numériques, des téléphones portables, des talk radios et des informations en continu. En Tunisie, le principal journal est diffusé à environ 50 000 exemplaires dans un pays de dix millions de personnes. Mais même dans les quartiers les plus pauvres, on voit des antennes paraboliques sur presque tous les toits et les balcons."
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C'est pour cela que P.-V. a cite une phrase d'un des rares 'sages mastodontes des politiques des temps modernes' Thomas Paine qui a dit:
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
Thomas Paine
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Vendredi 10 mars 2006
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L'"Internet" est comme une 'passoire geante' qui grandit a chaque jour. On bouche 'un trou' ici, 'mille trous' se forment ailleurs...
P.-V.
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Mardi 21 mars 2006
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…and Iraq is a part of the war on terror. Mr Zarkawi and Al Quaida, the very same people that attacked the United States have made it clear, that they want to drive us out of Iraq so that they can pppplan, pppplot and attack America again, that’s what they have said (or not???? Do believe me, don’t you?) that’s their objective. I think it is very important to have a president who is realistic (that’s relative) and listens to what the enemy says (know thy enemy, right?) and secondly I’m confident (I’m too) , I believe (I believe too) I ‘m optimistic (I’m pessimistic) we’ll succeed. If not I’ll pull our troops out. If I didn’t believe we had a plan for victory I wouldn’t leave our people in harms way, and that’s important for the women to understand!!! Thirdly, in spite of the bad news on Fox TV, and there is bad news, YOU brought it up (the one who asked the question, Helen I think) you said how I react to a bombing that took place yesterday (although the war is still present nowadays) its precisely what the enemy understands as possible? to do. I am not suggesting that YOU shouldn’t talk about it (Ler’s talk about…) I,… I, …I,…I,…I’m certainly not being…You know…Please (yes YOU over there) don’t take it as criticism but also as a realistic assessment(?) of the enemy’s capability to affect the debate, and they know that. They’re capable of blowing up innocent lives, so it ends up on you TV-Show…and therefore (gesticulating) it affects the woman I ….(not audible) …I can understand how Americans are…ehm…ehm… worried about whether or not we can win . I think most Americans understand we need to win but they’re concerned about we’ll not…, we can win. So one reason I go around the country to Cleveland is to explain why I think we can win. And so I would say, yes I’m optimistic about being able to achieve a victory, but I’m also realistic (???) I fully understand the consequences of this war, I understand people’s lives are being lost but I understand also understand the consequences of not achieving our objective by leaving too early. Iraq would become, a place of instability, a….a place from which the enemy can plot plan and attack (twice, bingo) I believe that they wanna hurt us again (who?) and therefore I know we need to stay on the offense against this enemy they’ve declared Iraq to be the central front and therefore we’ve got to make sure we win there (always win) and I believe we will, please
Question:
Mindful of the frustrations that many Americans are expressing to you, do you believe you need to make any adjustments on how you run the White House? Many of your senior staffers have been with you from the beginning. There are some in Washington who say that…(interrupted by the prez.: Wait, wait, (oh, molo, molo)…is this a personal attack launching over here? crowd laughing, ha,ha ) they say they’re tired and even tone deaf even within your party, they say that maybe you need some changes, would you benefit from any changes to your staff?
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I, I’ve got ae, ae staff of people that have first of all placed their country above their self-interests. These are good, hard-working (t’as jamais travaille en tant qu’eboueur, toi. Moi si) decent people and we’ve deviled the …’wa?’ .(intelligible) we’ve deviled the war, we’ve deviled with recessions, we’ve deviled scandals, we’ve deviled with Katrina, I mean they they they had a lot on their plate and I, ehm, appreciate their performance and their hard work and they’ve got my confidence. And I understand that (hey, btw, come on) Washington is a great town for ehm, advice I get a lot of it. Sometimes in private ehm, from my friends, and sometimes in public. There are those who like to stand up and say ehm to the prezdent : ‘Here’s what you ought to be doing (mais alors la, avec un accent typique texan)(P.S.: never get me as an adviser) ‘ and ehm I understand that. It’s ehm,, it’s even the first time during the five and a half years that people are felt comfortable about standing up telling me what to do (although I hate THAT, but that’s ok) That’s ok, I take it all in and appreciate the spirit in which is delivered most of the time, but ehm, no, (switch…) I’m, I’m I’m, I’m satisfied with the people that are surrounding myself. We’ve been a remarkably stable administration and I think that’s good for the country. Obviously there are some times when government bureaucracies haven’t responded that way we wanted them to, and like citizens you know I don’t like it at all. I mean I think for example of the trailor sitting down in Arkansas, like many citizens
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Jeudi 23 mars 2006
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...sooner or later we’re gonna have to face reality, and we’re gonna have to do three things: We’re gonna have to reform our state pension and health schemes, we’re gonna to have to constrain the base of other spending, and we’re gonna to have to look at revenues. Ehm, all three are gonna have to be done, coz the gap is too great.
Question:
Let’s take them in order. Let’s start with the reform of the social security system and I guess you’d argue medicare as well. That basically means people are gonna get less in retirement and less health-care cover when they are old?
Answer:
Well, for social security I think what ‘orderly?’ gonna happen is that for people is that for people who are retired or close to retirement, they will largely be unaffected and the younger that the individual is, the more they’ll be affected.
There’ll be changes in normal retirement age, there’ll be changes in the replacement rates, there may be changes in the indexing formula, and you can come with or without additional revenues…
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You sound a little bit like an accounting member…What, I think you maybe saying is that you’re gonna have to stop indexing social security raises to the inflation rate amongst wage-earners,…wages…
Answer:
Well, there’s two issues, as you know, in social security you have two types of indexing, one indexing is in the term of what your initial benefit is and in the other indexing is, after you received your initial benefit for inflation. One of the things that will be debated is whether or not we should be indexing based upon purchasing power for the initial benefit rather than based upon wage growth because wage growth includes productivity increases…
Question:
All right, here you are, David (ah tiens) Walker, senior official, who is independent of any administration, independent of the political parties, how are you going to sell that message to America’s politicians?
Answer:
What’s going to have to happen, is that the American people, are going to have to understand where we are, where we’re headed, and the consequences of an action…
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But you’ve been telling them that for years?....
Answer:
No, no, not that one….I’ve been telling them for about a couple of years. But the difference is, more people are joining the course all over the time…and from a practical standpoint, when you look at the united states, the only time that you can really nationalize an issue of this type, is in the presidential election…and our next presidential election is not until 2008…
Question:
In 2005, congress came up with 13 appropriations bills, over 15,000 special funding items, the whole package costs 47 billion dollars, you say, you’ve been banging away on this drum for two years, certainly congressmen and women are not listening….
Answer:
Well, earmarks are out of control, that special the earmark-spending…we have an all-time ….(unintelligible)….interrupted by the moderator: We call it port-barrel politics….
Well, a lot of people in america call the port-barrel politics as well, and one of the things we have to recognize is, we are, we are focusing on today rather than planning for tomorrow and the consequence of that is nothing less than long term reduction in the economic growth, reduction in disposable income, potentially reduction in standard of living and potentially a compromise in our national security…
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Let’s talk national security….the best estimate of the cost of Iraq war runs into hundreds, possibly 300 billion dollars…one newspaper I saw the other day, suggested this is costing around 6 billion dollars a month to sustain US forces in Iraq…That, surely, is having a very damaging effect on some of the calculations, you’re like at looking at it over the long term…
Answer:
It is about 6 billion dollars a month. When I was in Iraq myself, back in January doing work there for the congress, but even though we are incurring a significant cost for Iraq, Afghanistan and incoming homeland security cost, last years deficit of 760 billion on a cruel basis and close to 500 billion on a cash, counting the social security spending, only 100 billion of that had anything to do with Iraq, Afghanistan and incoming homeland security cost, so the idea that that’s why we have deficits is just flat false…
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We’ll put it this way…you are suggesting, as we said at the very beginning, that the way in which the US finances are going unsustainable, are you telling politicians that if they continue with this irresponsible, as you would put it, attitude to fiscal policy, but at some point America will not be able to afford to go to war…
Answer:
At some point we will pay a heavy price, and we don’t know when that point will come…and let me tell you of one of the risk factors that other people don’t focus on…
Last year, the US, for the first time since 1933, the depths of the depression, had a negative savings rate for individuals, so we spend more than we earned in the year, as individuals…add on top of that, the deficits of the federal government, that means that we have to rely upon foreigners to be able to finance our excess consumption…the question is, how long will they going to be willing to do that and at what interest-rates? Because if interest-rates start going up, that will have a compounding effect for us and that will have a ripple effect around the world…
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You said foreigners in a way which suggest to me that you regarded as dangerous that for example China, South Korea, they are the sorts of countries that will bankrolling the US budget deficit…
Answer:
I’m not trying to personalize or to say that one country is good or that one country is bad…interrupted: let me suggesting a strategic decision that we made it out well that should allow us to continue ….
The fact that we rely upon others, to finance our excess consumption, does increase our relative risk, there’s no question about that, …
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But in a sense, it simply locked those sorts of countries into ever closer ties with the United States, they can’t afford to see the US economy sink, because so many of their assets and they are denominated in dollar bill….
Answer:
It’s a matter of whether you look in the short term or you look in the long term. There’s a lot of interest…there is economic interest there is foreign policy interest there is national security interest, ...there were many different interests that come to play over extended periods of time …you know unfortunately, we tend to be, suffer, from two afflictions…myopia or nearsightedness and tunnel vision…and what I’m trying to do is to help us combat those dull afflictions and look at a longer range and recognize reality…
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Do you believe, and is your message to the American people, that the United States is in a more vulnerable place and is more, perhaps, in danger, when it comes to consideration of how to respond to another massive Al Qaida attack or indeed, the need to go on the offensive with Iran for example as US politicians have discussed…are you saying that America’s ability to act, is undermined by this fiscal crisis…?
Answer:
No today, but it will be over time, it will be eroded over time if we don’t act…and my view is, the greatest threat to the united states is not somebody living in a cave and Afghanistan or Pakistan…it’s our unwillingness to deal with large and growing fiscal problems that are only getting worse every second of every minute of every day…
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Did you direct that message to prezdent Bush?
Answer:
I haven’t met with him directly but I’ve met with his cabinetable officials that are responsible for advising him on economic policy and in some portent time I may give it direct to him…
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And they say to you, what?
Answer:
They acknowledged that we a large and growing long term imbalance and one the things they will say is they tried to reform social security last year as a way to start making a down-payment towards that at the same portent time we’re at or near record deficits, we’re adding debt at record rates and I (unintelligible) …we’ve got not slowed the blee…
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What is you r message to those in congress, republicans, primarily in congress who want to see more tax cuts…..they’re talking about another 70 billion dollars with the tax cuts by 2007, they’re talking about making permanent the Bush tax cuts we’ve seen last …. which came up for New Orleans in 2010, what is your message?
Answer:
My message is the same here as it has been in the united states for quite some time and that is: when you ran a hole, that first thing to do is stop bleeding…
And we need to consider both a long term affordability about spending increases and tax cuts before legislation is enacted in the law…
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Alice Rivlin, on which you referred to her before, and who used to run the CBO, she says that if you look at modern US history, the only times, people act in terms of trying to renegotiate the fiscal balance in the united states is when there is presidential leadership and when there is at least some semblance of bipartisan spirit in the congress…do you see, either, of those elements in place at the moment…?
Answer:
Not on the short term…(so you don’t see anything…)…well, what I see is, an attempt last year to reform social security, but the process that was employed was fundamentally flawed, since that after 60 public events, there actually was less support for the proposed approach to reform than there was before the events McCann…there are two ways in which the united states is historically not a problem: one, because it has to, had to look ‘at the others prices?’…., or two because it was inspired in a sustained leadership, I prefer the second…ultimately it will take leadership from the WH as well as bipartisan leadership from the congress, you cannot make tough choices without taking a bipartisan approach, it just won’t work in our country…
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Do you think that prez Bush is culpable for what is happening and for the unsustainability that you see in the united states …?
Answer:
I think, there are a number of people who share responsibility for where we are today, and I think the most productive thing is that not ( …could you name them?) ….well, let’s just say this…:even in the years where we had current surpluses a few years ago in the united states, we knew we faced large and growing structural deficits in the out-years because of demographic destiny raising health care costs…yet nonetheless, through additional spending, and through additional tax cuts, we compounded our problem…and what’s important is not who’s responsible for the where we are, but important is to recognize where we are, where we’re headed, and start making some tough choices sooner rather than later….
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You know as well as I do, that there are critics, many critics of yours, in the united states, who see you, ultimately, as a sort of cautious being counting accountant, who cannot see the big picture, and the big picture is that the US economy is so flexible, has so much growth elementum within it that growth in the end can overcome many of the problems that you with your graphs and extrapolations are not currently predicting…
Answer:
And there’s no way that we’re gonna grow our way out of this problem…(….how do you know…. ?)…anybody who says, we’re gonna grow our way out of this problem number one hasn’t studied economic history and number two would probably front maths, because the numbers just don’t add up…you would have to have a based upon reasonable assumptions, near double digit real GDP growth rates, every year, for many years in the future in order to make that work….I don’t know a single prominent credible, republican or democrat, who is a PHD economist, who believes that we’re gonna grow our way out of the this problem…
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We’ve been talking about US politicians, and as you would say it, the failings of US politicians, but let’s bring it down, to the individual….surely, the ultimate failing here, is amongst, ordinary US citizens, who are so locked into consumption and believe that there is so little, that they personally need to do and think about in terms of the future….that they simply disregard…the advice you’re giving….?
Answer:
Well, Americans have yet to realize, where we are and where we’re heading, what the consequences will be for our country, and their children, and their grand-children….if we fail to act, because this is not just an issue about numbers, it’s also an issue about values, what type of country are we going to leave, what type of future are we gonna leave for our children and grand-children, you know, we have got a long standing tradition here in the US, that every generation has left the country not only better off than when they came, but better position for the future, that longstanding tradition is at risk, that’s not exceptionable to me, I’ve got two children and three grand-children and this is for them as much as anything else…
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All right, but let’s not focus just on the negative then, come up with some positive prescriptions forms, its seems to me, there are essentially two different approaches to the future, to sorting this problem, you could either go for…smaller government, that is drastically slashing government expenditure, federal expenditures and having government do much less but keeping taxes relatively low or you can go for significant tax raises and keep government very active…which, do you think is the answer?
Answer:
Well not the one we’re happen…most Americans are ran, what I call, the sensible center, unfortunately most of the elected officials are on the poles, I think what will happen over time, is a, we will have to reform social security, medicare, medicaid, and it’s not just the state health care schemes, it’s the entire health care system…secondly, we will have to constrain and reengineer the base of spending, we will also have to reengineer tax policy and ultimately raise additional revenues, it will be somewhat in between those two, you know, one of the reasons why the UK is ‘supposed’ to have sustainable long term economic policy, is because, 40% of the UK economy is represented by youor government…in our country, it’s only about 28%, and from a practical standpoint, we would never tax at the levels that your does, for a lot of reasons, not only our culture, but in order to maintain economic growth, additional disposable income….but over time, it’s a combination of restructuring in entitlements, cutting spending, and enhancing revenues, that’s how its gonna get done….
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Coz, you said, its the politicians are the problem because they are on the extremes, but that’s not the truth….the truth is, surely, that politicians simply want to get elected, and in the end, they, do not regard what you just outline…they’re sellable…
Answer:
Well, first I think we have to recognize, that the three most powerful words in the Unites States constitution, or the first or the first three words, and that’s ‘we the people’ and you’re correct when saying that ultimately, individuals, re-collectively, Americans are responsible and accountable, and if things aren’t getting done, then we have to accept responsibility, this is not just a problem for the government, that’s also a problem for Americans, Americans as individuals are spending more than they make, and they’re adding debt at record rates, that is not sustainable either…
Question:
How long, has America got, before the crisis that you see looming, turns this into a crisis that is upon America?
Answer:
I think it’s critically important, that we make a significant down-payment, towards dealing with our long engine balance within the next five years, but from a practical standpoint, we are talking about a generational challenge, its gonna take us 20 plus years, to get to where we need to be, but the important thing is, we need to start now…
Question:
You see, the problem is, when you at the US markets, you look at the fact that stock prices are still doing well, you look at the fact that growth rates are still doing well, you look at the fact that overseas investors still want to be inside your economy, and the sense of glooming-doing you do have, does not seem to be shared, and that, I’ll say it again, is your problem…
Answer:
Well, let me clarify, I’m not a glooming-doing person, I’m trying to state the facts and speak the truths and encourage people to do what needs to be done, some have called me, in part in the analogy, a modern day Paul Revere, the fact is, we have a large and growing problem that cries out for attention, and the sooner we do the better…at the same time, America has faced great challenges in the past, and I’m confident, that we will, ultimately redress this challenge, we just need to do that sooner rather than later…
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And you need to find a leadership…?
Answer:
Absolutely, and that is a bipartisan problem, right now…
David Walker, thank you very much for being on Hard Talk…it’s my pleasure…
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