i know you have talked about some of the cbos. from my point of view, when we talked about initially trying to look at the whole community, like bayview, and that was a priority for us last year, one of the things that stuck in my head was this is not just about the school issue. it is a community issue. it is about everything in the community. even though we are talking about cbos that can help the kids academically, we started with a few meetings and did not go too far in regards to -- how does the city get engaged in the other issues? maybe there are discussions about it that are not showing here. i think it is important that we do not isolate ourselves as an institution. the plan in the schools you have looks really good, but it is silly to think we can do everything by ourselves and not engage the city with some of the issues of families have. that is important to me. maybe you are doing that, but you did not mention it. >> i totally agree with the apparent agreement peace. we need to shift things where we are not looking at

today in our agenda we have mous and agreements with many of our cbos which support the direction you want to go with superintendent zones. looking at this, i am very hopeful, but i echo what commissioner norton said. i would like to see what it means on the ground. the only

today in our agenda we have mous and agreements with many of our cbos which support the direction you want to go with superintendent zones. looking at this, i am very hopeful, but i echo what commissioner norton said. i would like to see what it means on the ground. the only reason that i pushed back a little on it is these schools have been persistently and consistently lower performing. that have not been reaching their potential. we have a great opportunity here. we have also given this community, these communities, many false promises. we have failed in our promises multiple times. i think i need to remind

the other thing is around the current engagement we already have existing cbos doing a lot of that work. i am glad to hear you are around the table with them and they are not being shut out of this process. today in our agenda we have

the cbo would quantify the effects of some of the alternative fiscal policy actions. in a report to which the chairman referred, we analyzed a diverse set of temporary policies and reported there to your effects on the economy per dollar a budgetary cost, what you might call the bang for the buck. the overall effect of those policies will depend on the scale at which they were implemented, making as in the begin difference in an economy with an end of what of it nearly 15 trillion dollars would involve a considerable budgetary cost. this figure summarizes our key findings. the temporary increase in aid to the employer would have the largest effect on the economy per dollar a budgetary cost. a temperature reduction in payroll taxes paid by employers would also have a large bang for the buck, as it would both increase demand for goods and services and provide a direct incentive for additional hiring. temporary expensing of business investment and providing aid to states would have smaller effects. and yet, smaller effects would a ride from a temporary increase in infras

cbo telling us unemployment will stay above 8% through 2012. gotten worse in 27 states. 1 in 7 americans in poverty in this country now. they are saying this is a success? how do they sell that in this election year? >> by the president becoming more personal. you have seen this over the last week. the strategists are turning him back into the storyteller in chief. just today for example, he was in a backyard in some virginia family's home talking about how he cares. how he cares. and you know what, it is time for people to say to hell you do and tell their stories. it is not just the delphi work have been harmed. of course all of the folks in louisiana and in the gulf coast whose jobs have been put in jeopardy because of the junk science drilling moratorium. all the folks in the west that i've talked to about sean, who have been subjected to a war on the west. it is all the people in the small businesses who are going to be hit by the bush tax cut expiration and all of those increases. it is time for them to tell their stories and counter the

the cbo estimated if you do a one-year extension of the tax cuts to the wealthiest americans, the top 2%, of course, those making $250,000 a year, that gdp would actually double. why not have a one-year or two-year extension of the bush tax cuts? >> the cbo said if you want to stimulate growth that the tax cuts to the wealthiest is actually the least effective of all the stimulative measures, that if you stimulate the economy, making sure that you are partnering with business and giving them -- >> what about your companies that are subject to the companies to pay more? aren't you worried about this them? >> 3% of small businesses that fit into that category. >> that's stale lot. >> 97% who don't and the point is if you can have a -- i'm only interested in what works. if it worked, i would be all about. what will put pooh 'em to work and what the cbo has said is giving access to capital to small businesses that is important through, for example, the small business lending bill that is now cleared the first hurdle in the senate. that's great because i can tell you in michigan, we have t

according to the cbo, it will cost us 1.2 million jobs. we have a different argument on these things, as you can see. >> let's talk about the tax cuts that the bush administration implemented. they'll expire at the end of this year unless legislation is passed in both the house and the senate. looks like the senate is punting until after the november 2nd midterms. the house -- is there going to be a vote on this talking about when that vote will take place. but what we want to make sure and the clear contrast between democrats and republicans here is they're pledged to special interest today came out with preserving tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals for millionaires and billionaires. holding middle class tax breaks hostage. and adding $700 billion to the deficit. they talk out of both sides on their face. on the one hand they talk about cutting spending but they ignore and treat the tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals adding $700 billion to the deficit like it's not spending. they're equivalent. >> let me ask the congressman to

because the cbo said that this would save how many billions of dollars over the next ten years? >> yeah, and look, there is so much preventive health care, there's so many preventive health care measures in this bill, in this new law, so many things that will help people stay healthy, cutting costs. it keeps people home instead of in an expensive hospital. it means you get a mother with a child with an ear infection can go to a family doctor instead of waiting until the ear infection gets works going to an emergency room costing everybody more money. >> yeah. >> and perhaps costing the child her hearing. i mean, all of those kinds of things are the -- the whole thrust of this bill was in that direction. >> all right, senator, here's the uphill battle, the most recent polling that is out there shows that most americans, number one, don't understand this bill, they don't know what's in it, but they also think that they're -- will you be taxed more as a result of the health care reform? and 52% are of the american people according to aassociated press poll say, yes. this is simply

at cbo there was enough time to look forward and try to think a bit more in the long term. at omb much less though. the director of omb spends two thirds of his or her time in the west wing effectively as a presidential advisor. in that situation, you don't really have time to look out meeting the long term. so it depends on the government job. but the inner parts of the white house operation in particular your time is very constrained. >> charlie: did you change your mind having been where you were about some... the balance between private and public and how government policy can influence private sector contribution to the economy? >> i don't think that i changed my mind. >> charlie: did you learn something. >> i learned lots of things but i don't know that there was a mega story there. i learned lots of microstories not a deep philosophical shift. >> charlie: what was the most frustrating about it? >> i think what's most frustrating is the political environment in the sense that there is a lot of incentive on both sides to take things and kind of go to the cheap shot and

>> i had been at cbo for two years and i had en he admistration f a year-a-aalf. i thout th was almost four years of public service was enough. >> charlie: really? >> yeah. >> charlie: do you see public service as where most of your life will be devoted or do you see it will be now mostly in the private. >> i think for the next, you know, ten years i'm going to be a private citizen for a substantial period of time i'm going to be a private citizen. beyond that we'll see what happens. >> charlie: what will you do? >> well right now i'm at the council on foreign relations. i'm sorting out exactly what i'm going to do. >> charlie: is is there a book thaw want to write about your experience? >> no. i ve the "new yorkimes" column. i will occasionally write other things. i think will be sufficient. >> charlie: did you have trepidation in writing the "new york times" column. in the first column you suggested that unless we have tax, more tax after two years then we'll be in deep trouble about deal ing with the deficit. for so many people in the country raising taxes is n

working with the cbo. volunteer i volunteering their time in activities that are not just in their block. or just within you know perhaps within their sort of immediate structure. the vision is also that all the kid are our kids. and so whether they are the good kids the trouble makers what have you we are all responsible for their health and well being. the other element that the supervisor's office does and what supervisor mirkarimi does is he chairs the public safety committee. much of what is agendaized or what he focuses are things that have germ natd and ideas that have come up as a need from the community and that have been communicated to him. the capability that we have is in pulling in the different city agencies and departments and say, here's an issue how will we solve it? how will we deal with it? so, and that things are not working in the triage mode. the other thing that our office has done is part of the vision that some of the neighborhoods wanted is a clean neighborhood. we worked with th

cbo's were also involved in the effort. the frequency of the report is driven by the probationers behavior. the ongoing reports to the court help the court monitor the probationers client -- probationers' compliance. we receive ongoing feedback from the program. we include that in the progress report. staff have attended cultural competency related training. the use of the language lines and bilingual staff has improved our services to victims and the probationers. apd continues to work towards improving our practices and service. we've accomplished much but are not done yet. last month, we applied for another grant for domestic violence. this will help us reduce our overall caseload. that will improve the supervision. my goal is to get more probation officers out into the field for field supervision. we are currently revising our field protocols. we are updating the batterer intervention audit protocol and tools. we will be moving from a case risk needs estimate to incorporate a secondary risk needs tool. that is the domes

our neighborhood cbos are meeting regularly, collaborating in ways that are also impacting on the school and neighborhood. there are daily ways we expect you will see things different that are more meaningful, and building capacity. feedfecommissioner fewer: i hada couple of quick questions as well. >> everything about the way we are going about this work is by -- this is what our teams have been doing the first few weeks of school. we have been taking a careful inventory of what is in place and have they implement a structure to provide first come second, and third tier support interventions for students. we are taking a similar approach in thinking about our schools and how we respond to their needs. as we bring in resources, we need to have a clear sense of what is needed so we can tailor those in very customized ways. everything about how we are doing this work we hope is about having clear differentiation for our students, teachers, and schools. commissioner fewer: is this hour demonstration project for the district? not to put you on the spot. we have been talking about implementin

remember he talked about bending the cost curve, the cbo already came out and said, guess what, the obamaministration was only off by 110 billion. remember he said hey, you'll get to see your doctor. uh-uh. in texas mass exodus of doctors leaving the medicare program. so if you take everything that obama said and flip it around, then you have the real facts about obama care. >> brenda: okay. steve. take him on. >> you know, everybody was just arguing for certainty with tax policies. well, we've got certainty now with health care policies and by the way, that 61% is totally bogus. rasmussen is a republican pollster, house pollster for-- >> i'm sorry, this is a legitimate poll, it doesn't quite go along with your facts, but maybe that's the problem. but it is a legitimate poll. >> national polling showed yesterday, health care was a little more positive than negative. i tell you what, we're working for 18 candidates in my firm for federal offices, senate and house, i've soon two ads from republicans say repeal it and we've got some pretty tough districts and pretty tough states. >> brenda:

the cbo put out a report saying that if this happens we could lose 1.2 million jobs. to do two things, grow the economy and create jobs and cut spending. raising taxes defeats those purposes and objectives. you don't want to slow down the economy, but cut down on the spending. >> congressman wassermann, many say they agree with congressman ryan, if you raise taxes on those making $250,000 or more a year at a delicate moment in the economy right now, that could perhaps even trigger a double-dip recession. >> wolf, the overwhelming majority of economists agree that the tax cuts that mr. ryan and his colleagues want to extend for the wealthiest americans would do nothing to turn the economy around. that it is the middle-class tax breaks and working families that we need to reenact, because most wealthy americans don't use that windfall to put it right back in the economy. they sit on it, and sit on the investments and it does not help at all. all it would do is to add to the de deficits. i agree and democrats agree we should target the tax policies to small businesses wh

everyone quotes the cbo. whenever the cbo comes out with something that they like, the republicans act as if it is the 10 commandments. the cbo has said that this stimulus has made a difference in the unemployment rate between 0.8% and 0.7%. the unemployment rate without the stimulus would be almost 11% to day in this country. it is made a huge difference. in pennsylvania, it has created and transformed the stimulus. the infrastructure part of the stimulus bill has worked big time. that is why the president is so right to want to spend $50 billion more on infrastructure. one example -- on june 30 it will ask to do a snapshot of people who were working in pennsylvania on stimulus-funded transportation projects only. all sorts of mass transit projects, housing projects, energy projects, but this was just roads and bridges. there were 8600 pennsylvania ends, men and women, working in good paying jobs that could not be outsourced at the construction sites. stimulus-funded only. we also wrote down all the vendors

the cbo admits extending the tax cuts is good for growth. >> that's right, that is what they say. but, look, he says that it is not as good as extending unemployment benefits, or taking on a host of other stimulus kind of projects that would actually past the economy more like infrastructure spending. >>shepard: the best thing is to spend money on food stamps because they come back $1.71 to $1. >>reporter: but any are in the doing that. >>shepard: the one thing that is lost in this matter of tax cuts is, it is not just tax cuts for the rich but tax cuts for everybody. for the first $250,000 everyone goes back to previous rates, and everything above that is taxed so everybody every single person every business, will keep it as this rate but over $250,000. >>reporter: everyone gets a tax cut. you pay the same amount at similar levels but there is a concern here that if you to reinstate the bush tax cuts you will not get the same level of revenue and that is a problem because we have a $14 trillion debt, $1.4 trillion deficit, and lots of problems there and he is worried about having

we know economic data shows from the cbo and all outside commentators if you have government spendingt the obama plan would do, infrastructure, research, education and energy, you get $1.75 in output for every dollar that you spend. unfortunately tax cuts that are at the core of the boehner plan are more expensive than they are productive in the economy. >> republicans live on the mantra. tax cuts equal job creation. is it not true, but is the reverse true? can tax cuts hurt job creation? >> in this instance they can. particularly because we are talking about the bush tax cuts. the vast majority went to the wealthiest 3% of americans. if i'm working and a middle class person living paycheck to paycheck, i spend every dollar i can hold on to. i spend it on groceries and my kids's books and gas for the car. i immediately through put that out into the economy. if i'm a millionaire or billionaire i as you said sock it away. the problem with using tax cuts as a stimulus is that it's far too expensive and it ties the government's hands to do the more effective form of stimulus. such as infr

the federal government has to increase demand and we know economic data shows from the cbo and all outside commentators that if you have government spending of the type that the obama plan would do, infrastructure, research, education and energy, you get $1.75 in economic output for every dollar that you spend. unfortunately, tax cuts, which are at the core of the boehner plan, actually are more expensive than they are productive in the economy. >> republicans live on that mantra, tax cuts equals job creation. is it not only not true, but is reverse actually true? can tax cuts hurt job creation? >> in this instance they absolutely can. it particularly because we're talking about the bush tax cuts which, as we know, the vast majority went to the wealthiest 3% of americans. now if i'm a working and middle class person who is living paycheck to paycheck, i spend every dollar that i can hold on to. i spend it on groceries. i spend it on my kids' books. i spend it on gas for the car. i immediately through-put that out into the economy. if i'm a millionaire or billionaire i, as you said, keith,

. >> we know according to the cbo the costs are less than they would have within without the change.bill: oh, please. >> he identified a couple of specific things. he said look, millions of more college students will be able to go to college. we under the age that kids can be covered by their parents' health insurance to 26. >> bill: all of that costs an enormous amount of money. >> that is the point. that's why americans are so infuriated. this is costing american people so much money that we don't have. >> bill: wouldn't be so infuriated if the economy were better and they felt more secure. >> correct. and if the policies worked. it's the tandem of the fact these are anti-free market approaches that are not working. >> they are working. >> making the situation worse. >> bill: next week if you come in here. >> that's a threat. >> bill: i'm going to give you homework assignment. school is. in i want you to reef search the $111 million the city of los angeles received from you, me, and monica and all the other taxpayers and the 55 jobs that created. i want you to defend that. >> you c

that's what the cbo says we'd have if it wasn't for stimulus.e should be talking about all these things. we've been scared, we've been hiding behind shower curtains. it's time to get out there and campaign about the good stuff we've done. and also as i said on your show a while ago, about the fact that the opposition is being influenced more and more by wackos. michele bachmann says the first thing they're going to do if they get control of the house, issue subpoena after subpoena, have investigation after investigation. darrel iseman says that's exactly what they're going to do. and that's exactly what americans don't want. and we ought to be telling people, our base ought to wake up. and anybody who's watching this show who thought they might not vote because they're a little disappointed over this and a little disappointed over that, get over it. the stakes are huge. we've got to get out there and vote. >> let me ask you about how the rubber hits the road on that political advice in a specific campaign. in the race to succeed you as governor

. >> the cbo estimates that with a two-year extension of the bush tax cut, gdp would be a half a percent to two percentage points higher. >> shepard: but they do plan to extend the bush tax cuts for everybody for the first $250,000. right? >> that's correct. that is what the president and democrats on capitol hill are proposing. they say that the country cannot afford the $700 billion over ten years that it would cost to extend the bush tax cuts to those making over 250. we'll see that battle fought out in the lame duck session after the election. >> but just so we're clear, the people who make more than 250 would still get the tax cut on the first 250. right? >> that is correct. it's the increases in the marginal rates. they still benefit from the lower tax rate that everybody gets under 250, so yes, they would still get that lower tax rate. >> allall right. peter, thank you. the rich are getting richer, surprise, surprise. so says the latest snapshot from the u.s. census bureau. it shows the so-called income gap hit a brand-new record high last year with the top 20% of americans, the o

cbo says we could lose 1.2 million jobs next year alone. we should be cutting spend, the root cause of our problem is not we don't have enough taxes, we spend too much. that's our emphasis and that is the cornerstone of the pledge we put out today. >> greta: are you going to cut services to seniors? >> what we propose 1.3 trillion in cuts. rescind tarp, stop federal employee hiring. serious discussion with people in this country about these entitlement programs. the point i've been making all long seniors aren't going to be affected. the plan i pit on myself, which is not the republican plan, but my plan doesn't affect anybody over 55. pays off our debt. puts programs on the path to solvent. >> if we don't stave off this debt crisis seniors will have their benefits cut. we should prevent that. >> greta: is social security an entitlement program? >> social security, medicare, medicaid are the big entitlement programs. >> greta: people pay into social security they don't see it as an entitlement program. >> technically speaking these are enti

and what cbo says is that we're going to save $175 billion through that program over the next decade. and the decade after that, save a trillion dollars. and as i point out on. >> congressman? >> yeah. >> -- all of the things that you're talking about, you're absolutely spot on, but there are some democrats who are going back to their district and they seem to be afraid to say that. in fact, are there some who've taken out ads saying that they didn't have anything to do -- they didn't support the health care reform. and they're actually running from it. what is -- what do you make of that? >> ed, the fact of the matter is, obviously each candidate campaigns on what they believe but clearly, our party and the president has put forward a plan, which we believe is good for the country, good for the health care of our people. >> no doubt. >> and it will save us money. so from all of those standpoints, we think it's a program that will work. now, we have three years to make it better before it fully goes into effect. but let me tell you, nobody that i've talked to that doesn't want to make

what the republicans want to do is extend these tax cuts, make them permanent to the wealthy, and the cbo has estimated that would double the deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades. this is from a republican party that's been griping about deficits. what i think the democrats have been doing, that number that you mentioned, has been talking about some kind of a temporary extension for those at the top end. obviously, this is going to be a hot debate in congress between now and the end of the congressional session. but there isn't any reason why if everyone agrees that tax cuts should go to middle class and small businesses, we can make that happen. >> politically speaking, would you prefer this conversation take place after the election? >> you know, here's my sense of it, candy. i'm fine with the conversation taking place, but if i had to guess right now, while both sides are waiting to see the election outcome, i wouldn't be surprised if it's not until after the election when the final, you know, action is taken. this is a discussion that needs to take place an

the cbo, the congressional budget office, most recently estimated the savings would be $143 billion thankshealth care reform over the next decade. between that and the tax breaks to small businesses for providing coverage to their employees, how realistic is it to start taking this apart? >> i don't think it's very realistic. for one thing, i think it's mostly political rhetoric. they've been able to demonize this bill so much that they're using it as a campaign issue right now. the reality is that this legislation is also something that the insurance industry really needs because their business models are not sustainable. and they will not get the backing of the insurance industry to try to repeal it. there are some things that the industry does not like. that's where you'll probably see they'll be working around the edges and trying to block the implementation, some of the legislation between now and 2014. >> former cigna executive wendell potter. as always, it is an education. thank you kindly, sir. >> thank you, keith. >> that's september 21st. the 2700th day since president bush decla