Restoration Roundtable


America's Crumbling Foundation And The People Who Might Fix It

The PowerPoint Slides That Were Too Hot for TED

By National Journal News Desk  //  May 16, 2012 | 5:14 p.m.
The idea--that the rich should pay more taxes to close the income inequality gap-- that TED organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread is being shared anyway. 

Here's a look at venture capitalist Nick Hanauer's slides from the talk that was deemed to controversial to share: 


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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first inaugural address, told a country struggling under the weight of the Great Depression that the nation needed to take action to rebuild and rejuvenate itself. He said: "Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now." It was a time not unlike our own, where misbehavior on Wall Street fed a widespread credit and confidence crisis that swept like a tornado through the U.S. and global economy. And as in 1933, Washington again faces the time-sensitive task of diagnosing how its institutions are ill-equipped to fix the nation's problems, and then building a new system responsive to America's new needs. This project will tell that story, through the eyes of the Americans affected.

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