Seven years later, we have virtually done nothing in terms of some quick fixes that would cost $100,000 per transformer.
So it was just ignored. It was something pretty scary, and we did not want to acknowledge it, so we put our head in the ...
Let us not sit back and go, 'Well, if you cannot protect everything, protect nothing.' Let us start protecting things.
So 7 years later, we have not developed national and regional restoration plans.
the purpose of this hearing is to basically stop and pull our head out of the sand, and start paying attention to this v...
Trust me, now I am all about let us not grow the Federal Government, let us not overregulate.
just government does not work, and I think this is pretty obvious.
we have let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and we have allowed governmental dysfunction to prevent us from even d...
It is just a shame, it is just unconscionable we did not.
the dangers posed by EMP and GMD have been well known really for decades but made public now for over 10 years, and we l...
And we have known absolutely this for decades, publicly since at least 2004 with these EMP Commissions, and we have done...
It is 100 percent certainty that this will occur. Maybe not tomorrow, 10 percent every decade, but it will occur.
But let us at least protect ourselves from GMD in a more robust fashion where it does not cost very much.
The government has not done anything.
That shift puts more responsibilities on workers' shoulders to manage risks and to manage the decisions.
We know that workers are not saving enough for their retirement.
I worry about what the future looks like for those trying to achieve the American Dream, living in the middle class.
I would say, and I would just--while tooting the horn of my State--say that a lot of those traditions root back to Wisco...
