Morning Edition; US Economy

this is morning edition i'm david naylor the glare of a political spotlight can sometimes be uncomfortable and hot but public officials and those that aspire to be put themselves in that spotlight and the heat will either be absorbed or we'll drive them away the situation is no different this year in the candies gubernatorial race issues of abortion and taxes are only two of the heat lamps that are constantly focused on candidates mike hayden and john finley but standing beside those candidates helping to absorb some of the discomfort of his public exposure or to people who do not choose to run for public office themselves yet they are frequently asked about the issues at stake each is powerless to affect policy changes on his or her own yet they have more influence with the person who does than anyone else they are candidate spouses in named dr spencer finney and paddy hayden marriage partners to the people who were seeking the state's highest office in a campaign that partnership goes far beyond the boundaries of home political races of seeing whole family split up the campaign with the husband shaking hands at one rally the wife greeting voters and another and

even their children if they're old enough and still others is increased visibility of a candidate spells brings new life to a campaign since many voters may find it easier to talk to spencer fairly than his wife or two paddy hayden that her husband but while taking part in a race can often help the candidate and the voters it can put enormous pressure on the campaigning spouse patty cake yellow days you know you start out early in the morning at the home about six thirty and you've probably come a dragon inn anywhere from eleven to twelve o'clock and nineteen he does have one appearance after another new trying to touch as many voters touches many kansans as you can spencer finney says he's used to us pressure of constantly going out to campaign in the midst of this the most strenuous race she's ever been involved in he remembers the relative ease of campaigns past seventy four mayor lou issue on the model candela multiple weekend but when he was three and no harm two of the first

time this weekend his blowhard with those we've been going currently plays in that one night you had a separate gone for several wave avenue and parades and picnics and he loses by one nine that frequent trouble for any candidate can brew exhausting and he says it's easy simply to get in the car or a plane and take off on the day's schedule without knowing exactly what's going to happen rhodium and one night there and i get a mortgage at langley get to which the and we weren't wooden with foreigners are you but what deal with those unfamiliar to believe that you see the state who knew or a

moment that which remember where we go from the mall so it's at that the fiddle and that can often lead to misunderstandings joan in spencer family there's some times that day as far as driving him i think i drive him up the law we're going to a town and he'll say where is the media now say i don't know drive around until you see a bunch of cars and debt he doesn't appreciate that sometimes we get of silly jonah hill well one night we went to the tone has been the hoff khomeini and romney but whether that night with him and he was totally saw that they have or where she worked to block away from the meeting nearly the jihad that it was a wedding party she will

choose europe or well things like that happen all the time it hit by you go to an advance that you think is going to be maybe a coffee and it's going to be very end four minute program ucla keynote address person lending you know i when i see a keynote address by paddy haden i always kind of get a little bit jittery because i really don't give the keynote address is and i don't really give speeches it i think of it more as just informally visiting with with the audience that casual attitude is a key element in any campaign patty didn't pose for her husband they just prefer to travel and campaigned together but that is usually too much ground to cover to have that luxury when she makes a solo campaign appearance she's often asked about her husband's policy stance and that's something that she says she'd rather not get into it when you're good candidate you've got to be responsible you gonna be eligible you have to be able to answer these questions you have got to be able to say this is definitely my plan this is what i want to do or be able to say well

this is what's been done i think a candidate has to be eligible has to be capable of regarding the issues are where as a supportive spouse of a candidate i don't think we have to be as credible i i always say i don't know about the issues i am not an expert on the issues i will get to that information but i am not i don't make policy in the past when most if not all political candidates were men their wives duties in the campaign were just smiled waved and occasionally make token efforts on behalf of her husband's work now with women holding public office at nearly every government level including his wife who is currently the state treasurer spencer finney says he sometimes asked to be a figurehead of the campaign though he has no plans to do so i hope it was shown to be answered so when eventually hundred like you cook in a bird if when i would

travel warning about but it will also when it was put together for me figurehead or not patty hayden says she'd be comfortable with being out of the spotlight completely sometimes she says the public sees her as much as a contender for public office as her husband which is definitely not the case my first commandment is to be a mother and i still stand by that i am you know i am thinking about his most important thing that a woman can do are you know i just i'm very it had an alleyway and when i feel like you know i haven't been able to to pay as much attention to the girls as i would like to if i went to be governor i'd run i don't want to be governor i don't need any type of praise i don't need any attention i don't want any of those things are i am just please being of the person supporting others and doing things for other people herself namely her daughter's any fourth grader and chelsea a ninth grader is one of patti it was

constant goals and something she looks forward to doing more after the campaign is over everything that you do revolves around the campaign all conversations revolved around the campaign you know it's it's hard to focus on anything else but kansas politics and so you know i'm not sure where anything else is going on in the news in the world because you're just you really concentrating on just the election are so if you kind of lose track of other thing that i lost track of what my friends are doing and some of my family things are doing you know because you're you know around him as much everything again is is focused on the campaign and so you're around and fight your television internally anything that involves a campaign that's where year and so will be going after november when we can reach out and start touching her family again and reach out and find out what's going on the world some of these issues that right now you know you don't pay attention to and as first lady patti hayden spencer family though he

also anticipate a more relaxed schedule after the election has a question in the back of his mind and his wife joan is elected governor in november that would make him something like the first gentleman of kansas and as he continues this campaign he can't help but wonder how he'll fit in with established tradition if he takes up residence in the governor's mansion phillips a really strange to me is the work of all you're living with all when that's the only thing they do appeals strangely how spencer fanning as the husband of democratic gubernatorial candidate john finley i'm david greene this big last week the biggest story in the news was the budget negotiations in washington between the white house and the members of congress negotiators push talks to the limit before reaching a last minute compromise on sunday night saving the federal government from running out of money and preventing the budget cuts from going into effect after that eleventh hour stave us quickly

recovered from its high level of concern and got back to business leaving the cutting up of the compromise to the full congress the director of the center for economic education wichita state says the nations people may be able to sit back and relax now that the economic crisis has been averted but jim clark also says the economy itself or may not have it so easy i don't think we can you really like me and you know what he sort of what are economists asking again and looking for in these days immediately following the budget agreement the

economy an agreement jack and the government spend less by those things and reduce economic activity in the heart like that the comic that by lowering interest rates making money more easily available to the economy and again and again the economy now now that was going on in the middle the economy and we were not going to for japan invaded kuwait

and the united ninety nine to nineteen ninety one not a recession in an eerie sound bad what's it going to be in reality montebello declining economic mm hmm oh really well most of these job losses it'll result directly from cuts say the defense budget or in other departments

that's right republican in economic activity of that we've got by many may be going quite as many people to work they're spread out over the economy human domes let's let's take a look at kansas where second how will kansas in particular be impacted by this agreement or any type of recession does our particular economy set aside either in terms of safety or danger that's right and what about

recovery what about getting out of a recession what it going to take for the us to to get out of an economic slump well done i don't know one could argue that there is a great deal the government could do and that is get from line on spending and in these last minute budget crises would that in the long run the american economy better than anything else or would it indeed make a difference

getting federal government well thank you you know when it was announced on sunday that a budget agreement had been reached congressional leaders began to europe with a real fight ahead getting the legislation through before congress without significant changes that will not be easy because of the pressure that special interest groups as well as

prisoners who were in the budget talks will put on congress to make sure their concerns are addressed and there are plenty of concerns to go around and hear agreement calls for significant tax increases and cuts cuts reflect a change in politics economics and budget next year will at the ten billion euro and up to a hundred eighty two billion dollars over the next five years or early the defense budget is being cut far as operation desert shield is concerned we always wrote while it where to negotiate an additional five billion dollars to support the us presence in saudi arabia and the persian gulf and both of them let's have a cut of course they do is cut of their own portion of medicare cost paid by individuals nine dollars a month to just over thirty four dollars a month half of those total medicare budget cut of sixty billion dollars will come from this premium increase the other thirty billion dollars will come from the healthcare providers themselves in addition the wealthy have for those earning more than a hundred thousand

dollars a year would pay for a larger portion of the medicare budget before one and a half come up to fifty one thousand dollars apiece could go to medicare now those same individuals could be paying as much as seventy three thousand dollars apiece in taxes earmarked for medicare farm subsidy payment favorite twelve billion dollar cut over the term of the agreement and the vision of retirement benefits of the water but by fourteen billion dollars all tollbooths five hundred billion dollar package will make a significant dent in the nation's budget deficit but the program cut in the number of new taxes are sure to make special interest group speak up one of the groups to the alcohol industry under current state law alcoholic and this impact a number of ways a ten percent tax on drink sales important restaurants that tax benefit mostly local governments a gallon and tax on the wholesale of the benefits they'd programs like education and the retail tax at eight percent it goes to the general fund

any view of the whole to be on the supplier level which would then be passed on the manufacturer that the wholesalers then the retailer humor along that line because would not only be passed on by possibly increased a lobbyist for the kansas wind spirits wholesalers association says such a tax hike on the federal level would severely hurt an already depressed state industry we're here we've already accumulated dayton quite evident we think will happen is that that will aggravate her situation and will probably have a negative effect on and that would both deal for the state todd duncan is a

lobbyist for the candidate was in spirit wholesalers association in topeka another tax on so called sin products in this budget agreement is a tax on tobacco products in the next five years the sixteen cent tax on a pack of cigarettes will rise another eight percent during this last kansas legislative session one state legislature introduced a bill that would save a business tax what would your market for education specifically the funding for this point margin of excellent program it's a program designed to raise salaries at and subsequently the quality of the state universities have been under financial fire for the last two years that bill would have guaranteed the third year of existence of the program but it didn't pass now with these new proposed center attacks the federal level the state border region says it's unlikely such a bill will ever go through on the state level tobacco users they've taken big hit only so much sin taxes a commentary pre packaged products like cigarettes or alcohol or via all the new taxes proposed under this agreement gasoline taxes would rise from nine cents a gallon to nineteen cents a gallon bringing in more money than

anything it ever would say there are four more consumers of gasoline than alcohol or tobacco of money collected by the state and turned over to the federal government is usually return to the state later for highway and other driver of auto related projects but the trees pomeroy the public information director at the state department of transportation says the effect of such a gasoline high gone kansas remains to be seen it all depends on whether the federal government continues i had an apartment whether the increase in federal tax dollars on gambling is earmarked albert curley and now for highway the road and bridge jack an attribute that had eight or whether getting creative earmarked for budget deficit reduction so simply because of the gasoline tax doesn't mean it has to do the gasoline taxes have been sent back to the states

for road and bridge construction maybe new film thirty three part of the federal might have expected for the county into the state to help with construction project that depends upon how congress will act on what the federal government will do it for him and that type of pakistan due for budget deficit there's been talk the last several years how are you korean name curly the daytona national transportation organizations have opposed that view they feel that those are your tax that the gambling taxes are paid by motorists are out there driving on the highways and even the road and then that money should come back for that purpose the trees palm oil is the public information director for the state department of transportation one of the trickiest sections of this budget agreement is a cut in the farm subsidy payments but art barnaby at a state agricultural economist as the twelve billion dollar cut is obvious how the cut will be applied is another question and what has been proposed

to the numbers that have been floated that point mean you're obviously changed but with a two percent cut on tartar price and a three percent reduction in the number of a pretty broad agreement on for overweight we're going to bring it into a horror and then three percent reduction in the number of acres that you could draw efficiency payment on that three percent would increase that up to fifteen percent out in the final year analysis forget the interesting because if you're a farmer who has the alternative to read alternative crops you don't have to plant wheat on the sacred you don't run efficiently payments and maintain your history even plant other crops crops such as soybeans that you'd likely do that if you're an incredible journey the additional

flexibility doesn't really help you know what i'm saying is if you have the capability really crispy fried sweet you probably would prefer that they didn't take account of the turner prize but actually everyday is never make as you're committed to that below me or a problem because people are leaving is going to sunflowers and soybeans and canola another off the crops and that will reduce your increase the supply of those commodities and lower the price increases soybean growers will oppose that felt you know it really depends on what situation in which one of those would be the least costly agriculture economist dr art barnaby says the farm subsidy question probably won't come under fire in washington as congress debates the budget agreement they work so hard to get it in the first place but they probably dont like the look of the risks if they do happen to come to an impasse on a new changes and congress though has not to like the budget agreement or even wants to dig in and try

to produce another one within the next week that it's a concern and david miller as you drive in that have been from the west one of the first buildings you'll spot a small made of wood and obviously brand new it's garry baylor has veterinary clinic built right beside the concrete slab that was the foundation of his old building the original building was destroyed in the heston tornado of march thirty and they were just recently had this new structure built as most of the business owners who were hit mile long twitter will tell you mailers is recovering from the storm hasn't been easy but before you groan we were growing that you even write up to were hit in of course are about a month later we saw beginning practically zero or sparse in the computer about that long to get back in order

withers decisions we have to make it and they're so used to push europe where we are back as far as business law him where we were a year ago but we haven't seen the growth that we're seeing for so it's taken on a catch back up just a little way from pillars that practice over on main street is the new home of hair designs a hairdresser shop owned and operated by sylvia smith and her partner brenda bowler smith says thinking back over the last six months of the initial restart their designs was one of the hardest things you'd never done we did malay that way and that they're in the air and i will die with about a really highly have the people at the beautiful because every business in hesston share that philosophy smith says the city began to pull together and keep businesses afloat less than a week after the tornado hit she began working at a wobble hairdressers until her own

business could get restarted maybe a sharpie and a lot of that day well the bellingham check daily in the building and i am a good fit and i have an empty building over here elaine let me then they'll go and how you can apply it and it can be very little activity out but not everyone has such a positive memory of that difficult time leverage the owner of the source and also supply store downtown says he faced a double whammy after the tornado left heston in shambles when we have a very good one and labeling joe miller home they came around they knew that what they were called the administration the people of

their they were great and far more and that's why we've been going on government funding that's been allocated and it will be a lot of time in october they hope and now i've been a month now the anthem of the band villainy in the financial fundamentally very much not in control living more independently unemployment in wichita bill really really clever then went on to finance an event live in one particular was built upon and company i know they were looking for a tiny ok

did they intend on a narrow down three billion for and believe in much of the world it went viral who might become my own or open american through breakthrough heston marathon waldner says because heston got so much an immediate aid from charitable organizations after the tornado struck businesses and individuals may have assumed they would get the same help from government agencies like the small business administration disaster relief delays from my perspective what we've seen is that we see we experience something our expectations were i'm realistic we didn't we simply didn't know i had no hope will be the first to admit that i didn't and i know other people on my staff and others we were did not know realistically what we could expect from these various units of government and until we went through it we simply couldn't find that kind

of thing now when bad feelings begin to strongly burke says some businesses began to think about leaving town only one so far actually have left a dry cleaners but still the precedent has been set and that worries burk john well there it would be waiting i believe they would've have done so prior to this we're strolling with her baby in some cases are are are having a struggle in some cases it was trouble before and it continues to be it's just more complicated for them now and so i don't think that that we can work with every confidence that were were completely out of the woods but but i think that we are much much more though nearly everyone in hesston one way or another face some sort of rebuilding after the tornado renters had an especially tough time the city was already short a rental units and many people didn't want to go through the

hassle or rebuilding that one of the people stunned by the rending problem not in terms of a personal home but her business is hairdresser sylvia smith you're trying to get help from the government and yet we were kind of we really need them and what about city government of homs and elizabeth i'm waiting for the city to step in and do something that have babies the end of like you think they should have when fidler confirmed that i am solely they haven't done anything you know really you know what we went through into london meeting every trying every way they could think of to help without the unknown because you know i think i live in the city says it has helped in

other ways waldner says the biggest way to stay dry the hope was to urge in cleanup of circling up was done the shooter vester lee jeanette reconstruction could begin in addition the city chose to help in more indirect ways starting with the repair of the city's ball diamond badly damaged by the tornado that was the beginning of what war miracles beginning perhaps than a tornado while essentially a negative impact on the city is hoping to make many positive changes some people are laughing no program and that kind of thing is possible once once one is his past the queen of them and the drama of the destruction it presents opportunities for community and one of the things i've been very pleased about is this the way in which people here have responded to those opportunities we've been we've not been been overwhelmed by bickering by fighting and arguing and things like that over what might be done

with each other each of those opportunities but there's much more were really a positive and pulling together mr hoy expected from our homeless community in him in circumstances like this particular point john walker is the mayor of the city of have to still in the business are recovering and reconstruction after a brush with the tornado nearly seven months ago and gave them walking beside a fast moving train is one way a resident of cape gerardo missouri describe yesterday's earthquake registering four point six on the richter scale the quake did little damage other than unnerving people in a forty five mile radius youth quake had ironic timing for many the city of cape gerardo had just a huge earthquake preparedness drills the night before and at the moment that the town started to shake one schoolteacher was asking a student gave the student's mother would speak to the class about earthquakes since you live through a major quake in alaska officials

say the residents of the area should have been caught off guard but they also say they were feral boy does that interim chief of police what happened yesterday i don't know you know you're quite right the question what do we do analogical and sugar level but what really about earthquakes <unk> we had an earthquake of mortgage magnitude in the nineteen sixty eight but that robert quine the estimates of the creation of four

point five on the richter scale and one and six it was five point five so that we can actually we're fortunate during those resettlement it mattered for wanda will those center of seismic activity during the last two centuries the last big series of quakes shook portions of missouri kentucky in tennessee in eighteen eleven and eighteen twelve reading light at my level and according to the report three months from now this thing for one which runs from northern arkansas three st louis and into southern illinois is expecting another major earthquake that's defined by a geophysicist and dr mullin is an earthquake registering the richter scale no at least at home together have the range of the quake from fully vienna through the eight

lakes in michigan though scientists say the timing of earthquakes can actually be predicted what new mexico scientists in albuquerque to the earthquake will hit the fall between december first and december of this year always has relevance in cape gerardo as well as the surrounding areas who realized they would be right in the middle of the quake are paying closer attention to report a seismic activity than ever before but they're weak published on on what you can do if we have to agree to any one month and one the average california turned poignant rich moment that we're showing no other whale was flying among the compound

for injured workers and they predicted that there was only a thirty percent change as usual quake will occur between the year two thousand and maybe about ninety percent chance it will voters are quick between now and the year two thousand and forty the vote i guess when you take a look at the whole thing all the numbers then and all the thoughts and all the concerns and all the questions that are raised because of yesterday and because of this scientists prediction for december when eunuchs community effect on the area economically all around the area you know you know for thousands of years in a geologist can confirm many anthropologists in the archaeologist the indian villages and five hundred years

ago so it would disappear thank you challenger standards mia farrow boyd is the chief of police in cape gerardo missouri john greece the chairman of wichita state's geology department says though residents of tennessee missouri and kentucky would logically have the most to worry about the quake did occur the state probably won't notice any sudden negative changes of any sort in the next three months you know well

with the likelihood of at least a chance of that create fear or economic depression era people moving out what what would be the tangible results of not only earthquake but the prospect of an earthquake i don't know but often what scientists say and what the public thinks are often two different things and much of the public despite what the experts say may associate of earthquake in late september in one spot with

a predicted earthquake in early december and the same spot waverly person with the national earthquake information center in colorado remember that well me they have failed you are waverly person with the national earthquake information center in colorado though kansas has have earthquakes in the past no one is expected within the next few decades but i find that you can predict where and when earthquakes will strike

you can predict where and when they will not either in hutchinson i'm david naylor i do here and now programs that are hired a law that are in play and the willingness of the public and white out and that there are inevitable figure out what

its health care costs higher than the current of the elderly population and part of the move on that's right how long well very nice here carefully avoided

taking up the divide the population that they wanted their own pay for that war do you feel like the public is willing to to step back and take a careful analytical look at what else are issues now would have been what it could be and down and judged fairly i'm not really the problem very very important volunteers provide and the question that we have for you is probably the likely providing what do you

got plenty of bell one of the criticisms that i've heard a lot about the saros during his gubernatorial campaigns is charges that assad has to get its management structure is disorganized at their next to tom petty yet one of your recommendations is to hire a person in charge of a day operations and while one more person may not buy the camel's back as it were it may send a signal to the public that wait a minute cutting down on administrative costs have not achieved by adding someone else to the table i did and

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were doing word public option and an end then i haven't been doing the thing that uncomfortable time the governor but then they've got to have operating it's pretty hard to be a baby maker the bill get bogged down in a report card for that happened to the public but that that day to day person were installed in some of the lower layers of the compound and be a managerial hierarchical structure that you mentioned there i don't want either ethan hawke

we're there for you the lower level and twelve definitely moved to get a lawyer for people but more important i think for the world now the recommendations are in and you have them on this arrest as well as the public know what's going to happen now one recommendation to actually be acted on the delay up of the brain or the public again that relevant to make the recommendation we don't want it when they're available the public official came to hear the debate and big government come up with a big pollution

problem the vikings are very capable people and all you need a handful of what it can point with all of that but that will be politically in article ii and there were very often there were only two that higher to get rid of that they've created the petition that more powerfully and you can be paid to medicaid oh yeah

andy mccarthy schneider is an assistant professor at the hugo award center for studies at the wichita state university fb quietly laws on television one of them are watching channel one a daily television news program developed especially for students on satellite from communications company in channel one as a combination between mtv many years using news anchors between the ages of twenty and twenty five lashes the headlines that highlights of all rural development and delve into complicated issues all in a period of twelve vignettes channel one is carried by a number of the school systems in the state like the

buick just outside hutchinson at curry who is a middle school principal greg williams has been in china what is this year you can already looking for this didn't agree with burwell told them that they were more general warned that we're on oh lord the curve that you think a difficult one private commission on evening is not true two years the trouble is most students don't watch network news that night or for that matter read newspapers from his or listen to radio reports you were high school principal david koh says general one works for the students because it has something other news sources don't have the focus on teens ever were something dealing with a national leader an international leader spent a lot of time with that i know they have a show that they would enjoy that damage but

shellenberger says is unique in that a lot of their future islands deal with that with teenagers they interviewed teenagers they focus on teenagers and i think that's and at the same time they're sophisticated enough to have to have to have them be to fit into what's going on a national and international in perspective i think that's as prequel a way of getting kids to you to respond that motivated than all of the more about god no many of the students of your high school agree with their principles that we live and gentle and the hanky panky think that id i can't really and i am on every note that they went that way about you know the wire we don't think they are own level and still going within that they're going to be you know talk about what only adult or an understanding with the kids our age they're more level mission or things like going out of the

work you know our age we kind of thing i have penny per yield printable greatly <unk> group that i worked a thoughtful an hour long discussion about what happened so i have put together to get that information very quickly and move onto something else that is probably the one criticism that we have as we watch that new home quickly that it is necessary for teachers to follow up and say ok now here they were talking about saudi arabia here to talk about cambodia and here's the differences between places david koh says while he realizes the value of having teachers provide follow up to the gentle one program requiring them as a group to do it can be unfair there that these particular subject areas covered and china wants a champion immediately relevant to today class being taught and therefore i don't think it was a lot of a follow up time out for the

briefing at prairie hills and you're high that students had mixed reactions about their teachers and class follow up at camp and getting home late night he just played like they think that the program american and today ek european diet are high fill the one i liked type and iron and you feel it you know it happens every day you mean that they're that any question for any person do you think it's a good idea in an eye you can learn that a key to a you know they've got a lot more than what the news than that but they never write it at the link below i think we get that and then got caught remember we don't hear when we can't question couldn't do start a student an issue discussion yeah that do you

let it teacher followup however isn't limited to news stories your high principal david koh says he wants his staff and students to discuss one of the most controversial elements of the entire channel one program the commercials singing oh oh oh you think of china will include commercials with the subject of disagreement and many schools they should be held captive audience of bicycles but they would coast to a commercial not have an obstacle to learning what a tool for learning i think one of the advantages might be that commercial we can get teachers as a follow up to have to have to focus on what this psychological strategies were that were being employed by the advertiser tries to try to get us to buy buy buy a particular product i think that would be an

extremely important use of classroom time to to focus on and the advertising techniques and i know some of the instructors are doing that very thing greg williams we hope that will make it somewhat better consumers their ceo teachers to take one day a week to talk about the commercials take a commercial directing commercials and talk about the way that they're trying influence the kids in purchasing what processes are so we're hoping that that will help the kids also i guess my point of view is that you know where they're coming from another trying to get it you can make a better and thoughtful response both co ed williams say there are other commercials that seemed to fit in more with channel one's educational purpose they cite as an example a commercial that's really more of a public service announcement by nike shoe company starring none other than bo jackson commercial shows bow parading around in all sorts of different outfit a band uniform to a toga

in the importance of learning all sorts of different subjects one thing in school commercial like that and gone and i can't then twenty ten in yemen and the people it now when i get there i'm going to get them let you know that you could be eighty one i mean he's the viewpoint of the banks but it is dan's course that you can become anything you want it stands go but you dropouts go you know i can become your limit to what you can be david koh you know he's the philosopher here's the calculus student he studies mathematics is and then it has a number of these things and then he follows up by saying don't

be stupid don't drop out of school and it's important to stay in school now that's an excellent message and that kind of thing which you need to be said but principal say the other students get tired of the commercial that they see them day after day they do is bar conversation gregg williams says he wants his students to take that communication lessons of china one home and put them to work there what did you see on channel one that gives the paragon not produce have them talk about what they actually and it's important for an apparent be talking about whether it's really about being involved in saudi arabia or now whether or not looking should be allowed in public places begins to let the parents ate who i am and to get there channel one is being considered for future use and other and the school system's once those systems are able to evaluate the use and value of the program in schools like curdled little below high that already are beating it into their classrooms

hour dr john daley is a professor of russian and soviet history of case that the history of this region he says he is one of nearly constant change and this latest move is no different but now he says the soviet leaders are trying to make service changes without addressing the real problems in the soviet union toby maguire they monitor mission hospital where the brain in portugal they're flat lines and you bring in a holistic healer so to continue your medical analogy would you say that that they are treating the phantoms not be true to lose your character oh there is that they can so easily weekend work and they pretend to pay it and very unfreeze a lot of

crises for example they didn't bring in any kind of sliding scale for medical treatment thirdly the average worker's to individual among many had gobbled up the current and looking at the european countries and the war abolishing price supports have led to riots in the path for example when you increase the price of bread or other foods and germany in poland you and into hungary you've heard what about you well the issue that drove by a russian greatest writer leo tolstoy and war and peace where it builds the question is in napoleon's metaphor whether the great man a makeshift integrate man simply ride the currents of history

which lesser individuals are unable to proceed with gorbachev is greatest opposition and one i think i mean in terms of heart that commitment to the betterment of life for people with andre soccer of alice accretion of power in the hands of the general secretary was something that saw quarterly report that was saying i'm alone and i like mikaela sarah damage personally but on the other hand it may be unwise to concentrate too much power to have one individual because he may not be there forever and you may have damaged situation developing yet again my own analysis with and that long pondered felber oh certainly gorbachev much more liberal than some of the hardliners who still remain in the days of that then drop off turning further even if your own congressional scholar that figure of short sharp shocks of the people re imposition of

you know gorbachev for his part i think he's realized that the day that that will effectively alter the situation is over what the military will play you free market economy well the military's long range goal in the world to a certain extent the pentagon steer a bank accepted i think in principle the shrinkage of a braff interviewed the very few corporate rumpled and in conclusion they're looking for a smaller military however their officers american officers as well don't want to give up the high tech goodies for justice you have for example a creek fighting to maintain the beauty of this country

of the frontlines to be approved and there politically you have not yet heard any talk about scrapping their scrappy the older more obsolete equipment you have the military traditionally getting the lion's share of the governmental pie now you have more than one so what the military response is going to be to a genuine further rather draconian budget cuts remain to be where we're going to see the next few days the next few weeks the great problem for gorbachev and very simply put he cannot offer the restive republicans anything to stay in a structure anymore there's nothing that a lithuanian get out of being chained in with the fourteen other republics of the country to field this one well you know the chance of being independent and trying to unload a lot of critical things have been perceived

i don't know i am and letting the other ones go with have learned from wage to a couple of clamps to the ottoman empire after the first world war where the ethnic turkmen carriers were maintaining and iraq's north african states will formally of three no no no these other republics that they have no direct advantage to being part of the ussr is there any indication that that the head of the soviet union many new name and there's been talk of their urban different from proposals you're asian republics of the union of socialist republic's at all kinds of variations on a game seven they want what kind of signal does a new name is unimportant

low bunch of cosmetic the realities are a really fundamental issues which records attention to go cover cover you call you can call the federation you can call it a commonwealth aren't sure they're running through all sorts of possibilities in the kremlin about it very very minor issue compared to the real and immediate question was what can talk suddenly realizing that they've got to pay five times that they used to school oh i would assume that all the changes to come from the people what role are they gonna have in and doing all that not just that the leaders to get the headlines

but the people hardly nationwide people are realizing it's time for a change and far from an operating of them gorbachev and now reacted to the dudes but yes i think i'm with hillary because now firmly people nationwide re washing emperor has no new clothes you have a population of one dollar you have except for a few dark people have a real live over seventy years ago roche would overtake couple of approval to libya and they failed and so he says the soviet people are gradually adopted a philosophy of if you can't beat them join them dr john daley is a professor of soviet and russian history at kent state ryan's been

the americans with disabilities act or at la during its first two years in existence requires businesses to hire twenty five people on board to provide reasonable accommodations for the physical be given a disabled employee that means the installation of items like wheelchair ramps wider doorways wheelchairs or special telephones for the deaf after the initial two year period the aba will expand to include employers of fifty people or more at advocates originally wanted the measure to include all employers but the size restriction was a final item of comparable between them and the business community the law also makes it illegal for those employers meeting to size requirements to discriminate against the disabled but not hiring a disabled advocate if the applicant is the best qualified for the job but the strength of the aba is not only in its actual provisions is the first legislation that specifically addresses the needs of the physically disabled is open the eyes of the nation to the abilities of the

disabled community and that has sparked an action on a number of coalitions the plan to build it at its provisions such a coalition in kansas got together last week for a three day conference but the people who met in wichita last week are not yet a full fledged coalition they're disabled individuals who are exploring ways to become more vocal visible and powerful in kansas to do that they have to grow old from illinois graham says that was a constant theme of the conference the disabled know they're able to make a difference but they don't know how to do it no one person i'm at in their community tried to change everything that a lot of pressure for one person to be able to have a very easy for world agencies or for government to ignore one person and therefore the hope the banks really can change and be a very frustrated being that one person who's spending all their time trying to change those all by themselves and i get anywhere i think now that they got a sort of hoping they say that things can change white americans with disabilities act

graham says one characteristic of the disabled community has been griping as he puts it disabled individuals have spent much of their time demanding right insisting the laws and people change and criticizing those that don't go along with her statement graham says now there's a new agenda for the disabled learning to make their needs known not there once ray petty the executive director of an independent living center at large agrees and balance of the ocean i mean the alternative chambers and there's a feeling of empowerment it's not beyond people's capability to understand that every issue but an issue to take that issue and the poems that needs to be taken and to fall through the fall through about when we talk about empowerment and in the context of talking about people of disabilities two thirds of whom are unemployed so it's not exactly a power grab it simply an

assumption of responsibility for percussive patient percentage of the person's sliding for ages part of the reason that the disabled have been quote disenfranchised is there a parrot invisibility in government but john graham says it's time for that to change with forty three million americans are significant with disabilities and state legislators they're in state legislatures and congress are warning for marilyn for city council we have to start to get involved in the decision making process government affects people with disabilities just like that everybody else so we need to be represented in those forms awful start to be the decision makers in this election year graham cites the example of sioux center a disabled woman in illinois running for state controller with the backing of the state's coalitions for the disabled he says her participation in the governmental process has been an inspiration for others in that state and he says that could be for

kansans as well but he also cites the example of franklin roosevelt was elected president despite his disability not because of it and that he says is not as helpful to the disabled at last week's conference state representative want a fuller of wichita spoke to be intent is telling them that if they want to be more involved with government they need to stop operating under assumptions about the criminal process any way our ears at wilshire that i'd taken their lives there and i think the one thing that they learned here today that they need to get acquainted with their individual legislators that they will have many here in the capital i think many of them don't feel that the audience and i think we need to report on every individual mistake that they are they are tight and they think that lobbyists are at the edge of her are highly acclaimed one person can make a difference and i think that the methods that they

hurt a wonderful or is a state representative from wichita democratic gubernatorial candidate joe finlay spoke to the attendees at the caucus as well saying she was very aware of the influence that your group can have on legislation and law enforcement in kansas and he spent several minutes reassuring her audience most of them depend on the state for at least some financial support of her goals if she's elected i am looking and state government from the standpoint of scenery where can we be most cost effective work and we save money i pledge to you that i will not do is in the area social and rehabilitation chris republican opponent governor mike hayden did not appear in portion of this conference but his spokesman rich says hayden's position is the same as finn sensitive to the needs of the

programs in the authority to understand the problems aren't for i do is the government guaranteeing them the ss budgets for services that would not be cut regardless of what comes up several times during her speech and he asked her audience to speak up to organize to let her hear from him at his offices the governor feels the same way and says he encourages disabled individuals to become more involved with his office pat carrick a board member of the independent living center in wichita says he's glad the candidates are asking for input for a

refreshing thank you i know so the key to it is and that's what's going to follow up he says may not be quick to come but he and other attendees at last week's caucus for the disabled say they plan to organize and speak out more than ever before their goal as coverage coordinator ray petty says is simple wooden watches the world but changing only as much as it takes to allow the disabled to fit in as much as the non disabled in

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