and don't have job opportunities you could only go to mcdonald's on the army for a lot of these are ok and mcdonald's is actually a really tough place to get a job these days they see lots of people show up in fear people get in and get into harvard a lot of their big days of hiring what do you make of the media coverage so far because there's been a lot of criticism by independent journalists that the mainstream media is not getting us at all i mean it was. it to people getting tear gassed people are getting beat down legally for the media to actually cover this they haven't been on this from day one which is i mean they cover the tea party very extensively but when they have so many different people come together this is a historic event and they should have been covering it from the beginning and sadly if it bleeds it leads and this is a perfect example of that case but even with the arrests and the violence that was the coverage that i saw in the mainstream it wasn't talking about why these people are occupying wall street you see those questions asked in foreign media covering t

a lot of parking information. a lot is out there. we have to figure out how to integrate it. when we have the ability to have a lot of information for the users, the can make a smart choice of whether they want to catch a train or a bus or take out by sharing. ridesharing is an area where we are trying to do more with this system, and getting more people to share the ride. we are strongly supporting car sharing. we support both of the operators in the city. there is also peer-too-pierre -- peer-to-peer car sharing or you can borrow your neighbor's car. it is a good system. we are working with the region to debut by sharing, which i am excited about. that will help with smaller, shorter trips. this is something we would like to see happen with our app development community. eventually, you will have all the data you're looking for at your fingertips. whether you need to get to a meeting or a friend's house or moving around the city, whether transit, bicycle, texas, or a car make sense, you can see what is available there. we are the cradle of all of these high-tech businesses.

we make a lot of public works. given that some are not necessary, we have a very good fiscal situation now. even today there meeting in washington to decide how much money they are relaying to the union. >> i think brazil will have severe economic problems not far in the future. you state the history is a mecca less than the united states. i think brazil will not dwell long term. i do not know what you're talking about in china. china has basically two different economies. they have a privatized economy with tougher regulation. industries are having huge economic problems thing subsidize by very successful private economies. it is much less regulated. the united states is much heavier. we have a welfare system, too. a lot of these things are bigger. we're coming out of a bigger economy. dollars are much higher. the thing that is smart was finally creating currency. it is one of the united states problems. we have been creating money like crazy. that stabilizes the economic system. you have to look at the potential.

they have a lot of assets in currency reserves of the euro so a lot of euro denominated assets that they're really looking to protect and i think that's why they're so interested in it because this essentially presents an endgame for the whole sovereign debt crisis a lot of a. no no i mean i think big it does kind of push a lot of problems under the rug but it might be a good solution so well there are a lot of you out there that are pretty skeptical if they're already looking at the numbers that brazil is throwing around they think that maybe it's just a political move right brazil for example for a long time wanting a larger prison on the world stage this because make could make them look like somebody who wants to come in and go to the rescue and china when it comes to dealing with italy there already they're already putting demands on this basically saying that they have to be considered a full market economy by the e.u. . well i mean it is a political move it's you know this is a changing world order this is now you have emerging market economies that have traditionally been le

some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much. now this is a priority. you have trash, animal waste, and it ends up on our beaches. that is a health risk. that is one of the main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. narrator: but even when it's not raining, water still enters the stormwater system, carrying pollutants. here on the west coast, a lot of our storm drain systems are separate from the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. alamillo: we haven't had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet there's a lot of water in this creek here. i would say 20% of it is natural and the other 80% is runoff. shapiro: the purpose of the smurrf is to treat dry weather runoff, which is coming from storm drains. dry-weather runoff occurs when people waste water through washing their cars in the street, hosing down sidewalks and parking lots, their irrigation systems overspray. narrator:

it takes forever to get across, there is a lot of congestion. he did not have anyone to push his chair. he was this late heading back down to the street. that one aspect -- there is a large segment of the population that have difficulty getting to where they're going. the muni isn't that division right now. there is no more cars on that street. maybe the city will make its money back for putting all these things in. the lines on the street or not clear. we were trying to figure out which parking spot, which was 3, which was for, which was 5. they put the white lines on the outside toward the bike lane which is such a small white line, it does not go clear across. it is difficult to understand if you are in three, four, or five. i am giving you a detailed example of one area that was down there. i had to ask the traffic officer to come over and take a look. when he came over, he was able to point out that they were being lenient in the area because it is not clearly marked. the other thing is, a lot of people feel in terms of muni, they are unfami

his name has a lot of value connected to it. l of approval in a lot of people's minds. he's this friendly omaha investor. that's what they attached on there. >> greta: is he feeling burned? there's a lot of eye-rolling among people across the spectrum, middle or upper middle class or rich about the fact that he acts like he can -- he has 50 billion dollars, co-give 49 billion dollars to the government if he wants and -- and still be a very wealthy man. >> he is in a different league being a billionaire. he's been public about giving a lot of money to charity. not everyone's situation is the same. the thing to look back on, historical tax rates. we've had a lot higher income tax brackets in the past than we have now. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. >> greta: it is causing a fuss here in washington. people have drawn the lines in the sand. get ready. >> thank you. >> greta: louise, thank you. here's what is company up after the show on the o'reilly factor! >> bill: is it all over for michelle bachmann? we will tal

of big equipment a lot of materials not necessarily a lot of manpower to build a high speed rail system for instance and so we're not going to put millions of people back to work building rail systems the other thing is that you know remember though is that these are investors that need to be built anyway you know we need to build them and we need to be in making these investments for the. twenty years we haven't done that so whether or not we're creating a lot of jobs on these individual projects it's a good time to spend this money because the u.s. can borrow cheap treasury bill rates really low and we can get labor for cheap because there's so many people looking for jobs so it's going to save taxpayers money to do it now it's going to create some jobs it's not going to create enough jobs to bring us back to full employment that doesn't mean it's a good and not a good idea so what helps the country's bottom line because it needs to make these investments but isn't this supposed to be about jobs i mean certainly that's the context in which the president is pitching pitching and i thin

now today so i do think a lot of enthusiasm from the members of the ruling united russia party seriously applauding about maybe a different version of medvedev that he supports prime minister putin for the presidency of next year what needs to be done to continue with the modernization of russia are internally and externally do you think. first of all we heard a lot of talk about modernization incumbent president actually. in the prime minister putin who said he supports the policy of modernization but he also if you read it what is important is that both men have a different idea i think different attach a different name to modernization from it to talking about an essential means. county any type to become is to state what the rest have treated for and what they for. any cause in modernization which incompetence fear surprise no chance economy but the political freedoms the civic and liberal right and. private sectors have to be part of the modernisation who can stand for more than a station i simply does not want the rest of it was waiting for he was hoping for and probably also monke

so we will see a lot of that. not just along the gulf coast towns, but also as this storm moves inland, there'll be great concern. this is a massive rainmaker, from the coast of louisiana and into the panhandle of western florida as well, so this is a storm that can bring a lot, a lot of rain. and it is a slow-moving storm, t.j. that means this will be dumping a lot of rain in the same place. so that will be the concern. and that it will depend on the conditions where particular people live and what's prone to flooding and that sort of thing. that's what we'll watch closely. here in new orleans, in the french quarter now, t.j., we're within one of those bands, waiting for the next bands of this storm to come ashore here, and it's actually stopped raining. so it's quite nice and people walking around and taking everything in stride here. we've seen a lot of the crews trying frantically and quickly trying to clean up last night's revelry. see a lot of these guys just picking us up before the storms, the winds pick up

a lot of time has gone by. history flows forward and things go on. i don't see on a daily basis that it makes much difference. in fact, we have district elections again, right? i can never keep track. i don't live in the city anymore. a pity that i don't get to vote for the board of supervisors. i can never keep track of when they're in and when they're out because it seems to be a constant back-and-forth. i honestly would say that i don't know of any differences that would be felt in our lives today if this had not occurred, except those two names and so on. someone want to give a better answer? that was a pretty weak cancer. [laughter] >> our thanks to mike weiss, author of "double play." his participation in tonight's program. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> we also think our audience here as well as those listen to our recording. now this meeting of the commonwealth club of california celebrating more than a century of enlightened discussion is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching book tv o

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park

we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate them about filing taxes properly and then moving on to the bank, a small one, expansion, and we work with the bank. the bank and credit union are similar. we do allow tax returns, projections. credit unions do not charge an additional loan or processing fee. processing time, on a small loan, -- consumer loans probably a few days. because we require a business plan, sometimes it takes longer. business plans take a while. especially bank statements. we need to see consistent income coming in. so far, a credit union delinquent rate is quite low because we are working with a client. we want to keep that low and as part of our mission. there is no application fee. if you are interested in an application or information, i have brochures, or you can give us a call. >> thank you. next is marked with wells fargo.

a lot of that about what's going on here in washington you were here a couple weeks and i think right where you are in new york right now we're dealing with what could possibly be a government shutdown over a spending bill about three and a half billion dollars money for you know the victims of natural disasters and it didn't hold held up here because a lot of the republicans in congress say we will absolutely give you that money we will put that money in as long as we take it away from somewhere else they're wanting to take it away from the program that that going to have building manufacturing fuel efficient vehicles comes to me about the creating politics of the theory when this happened around. well it's a combination of radicalism and corruption in the sense of political conditions being bought off by wealthy corporations and individuals who don't want to pay taxes and it's what happens when you negotiate with the economic terrorists which is what they really are at the end of the day if you allow them to hold the entire us government and the function of government hostage over a

it was a lot of working-class folks. my father was a shore worker, my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived

it's less than half a block away from the parking lot. and i've been a student there and i'm also came back to work there and i know that they have been writing letters yesterday and today and they will be sending their letters of support for all the middle schoolers and high schoolers. i think it's good to have a park right next to the center instead of having to go to delores which is really crowded all the time and no running space. or franklin which is always busy with soccer players. and it's a little bit farther. they are really in support of this park, and a lot of the staff and a lot of the youth organizations around there would also really benefit from having an extra open space around there. so i just wanted to share my personal experiences with you guys and ask for your support for this park. president buell: thank you. >> thank you. >> raul and charlie. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is raul. this is my fifth year in the u.s. it's really interesting how like it's really sad to see even in a country that has almost everyth

i spent a lot of years a lot of money working very hard to get a great degree is worthless and right now old wrigley. field the you never been we are closing down an army of caesars. and seems almost bowling alley with mayor bloomberg says good morning new yorkers that as you find employment skyrocket riots could be around the corner but these people came to every day people want to be involved in politics and we deserve to be involved in politics and i don't think you should have to be a billionaire like michael bloomberg to be about them well. you know michael bloomberg is a beautiful example of what's wrong with this country but for demonstrations like this want to become a real force and not just a fringe group more americans will need to join these crowds i expected well you may get a little you know start off small so your question is why there's so few people like again the information gets out was controlled by the mainstream media so will the political and financial elite push americans into launching their own arab spring or will they take note before the crowd swell out of

i don't have a lot of communication with them. but i've talked to romney, i talked to perry before he decided to jump in. i've talked to rick a couple times. >> is there one that -- >> i talked to chris christy. i say chris you ought to run for president. i'm not leaning anyway. i'm not focused on that right now. i was originally for hailey. i wanted hailey bar bor to run. i think he would have been a great president and a great candidate. we're all disappointed that mitch daniel didn't run. but that's where we are. >> do you think you'll convince chris christy to get in? do you think he'll be a vp candidate? >> i would kind of doubt that. i think chris is focused on new jersey. and he believes, he just wants to get new jersey in a good position. but i don't know. i don't know if you know chris christy. he's not a guy that -- you know what i mean? he's not a guy you can bully but i like him a lot and he's exciting and people like him. and we'll just have to -- not too late until it's as yogi says it's not over until it's over. >> f

a lot of times, it was like this. a guy would buy a couple of lots and essentially build two houses and tried to sell them. or live in one. they did that all the way up to the 1940's. one of the last parcels a friend of mine lived on on 28 and cabrilla, which used to be a garbage dump, and in the 1940's, they build it over with sand -- they have lots of that lying around. >> this is parker studio boulevard in the richmond district. you are on the road, which is this piece of land. after the 1906 earthquake and fire, there were a refugee camps for and in a lot of the refugee camps, there were earthquake refugee cottages. these were small little portable cottages built on these camps, and the idea was you could live there, and when the camps closed after a bad year, you could take it away to an empty lot. >> you had to buy it. >> you could, but your rent would go towards the purchase price. by the end, they just wanted to get rid of them. >> in 1930, all of these were declared a substandard structures and the city wanted

, a lot of passion, a lot of work we want to bring to this process of making this a reality. >> [speakingnish] >> we also need affordable housing, accessible housing. please help us make that a reality. we believe in you and do not want to stop believing in you. thank you. >> my name is pat delgado. i am a part advocate in the mission district. -- a park advocate in the mission district. this is a vital new part in our neighborhood. we have very little open space. we have franklin. we have kid power. we have delores, but it is way over there. we have garfield. up in this area, which is part of the old industrial zone, we need more open space. this is a great idea. please help us make it a reality. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. i see only three more speakers, chairperson mar: thank you. i see only three more speakers,

i don't want a lot of tax, but the reality is i have a national problem. i need a national solution. we have got to get back to the point where we allow our legislatures, our president of the united states, cut him some slack. let him find the solution. he is going to work it without the senate if you give him some room to work it out. we need to get back to that. [applause] >> this one, one quick clarification just from your remarks. am i to assume from what you were saying about certainty and long-term that your members and the people that you represent would be willing to pay a little bit more if they knew it was certain and long-term? >> we're going to have to -- i think the issues have been addressed. if you're going to have to get it done, you're going to have to pay for it. our folks are familiar with the gas tax. if we go beyond that in other ways they are going to say what does that mean? everybody thinks about that a little bit. we know we're going to get this. this has to be a priority. we have to sort out those priorities. that was good debate

there has been a lot of good businesses that happen at pier 38. e of us. you might notice that there is a real community there. there is a lot of interaction that is very positive for the city and i so i hope you will all work and help us in keeping that facility open rather than what they have said they're going to do is to close it and do minor maintenance for years which it's a derelict facility compared to what is happening there now. thank you. >> hi, my name is curt lynn. i'm a tenant at pier 38 and involved with the ship that we were just talking about. as you know, pier 38 have tenants that collectively are the single job business incubator in california. in this community, there is a lot of cross-pollination between the companies that promote jobs and business. we are part of the customer base for businesses in our area. several of the tenants serve the local maritime community in important ways. we expanded these maritime services and increased public access to our bay. there have been some public, towards this end, we also find it import

we have a seat height to be concerned about, but a lot of other things. for example, people worry about getting into bathtubs because they are slippery. how do you deal with that? >> it all depends. the most important thing you can do is have a grab bar for the tub and shower. we think about the toilet heights. we think about having barrier- free back from -- bathrooms. if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to have a nice, white door. 3 feet would be very nice. even a little bit larger bathrooms are you could maneuver in it would be helpful. >> let's look at some six. we got an e-mail from some of who watches us online who had a question about whether or not there are any downside to getting one of these vessels sinks, one of the six that sits on top of the counter. >> that is one of the reasons i like j.c. plumbing. they have a great selection, and i can make my point. let's compare these two six. this is a bowl shape, and this is a ceramic that comes straight down. the disadvant

you knock on a lot of doors, talk to a lot of people. some of the things were interesting, how connected a lot of people were to their schools, communities. people were involved in their communities in some many ways. we have neighborhood organizations. there are so many people actively involved in the communities, neighborhoods, our organizations, child care facilities, relationships with seniors, at the park. that was something exciting to see. there were multiple ways for people to be involved as residents and members of the city. i was stunned by just how many artists were in district 11. there are so many artists who are doing incredible work that do not have a venue within their districts to show their artwork. it inspired me and my office to sponsor artwork events, culture events. now we are starting an arts committee to get more funding, having the community be a part of deciding what kinds of parts we want to show. that was one idea that i learned from campaigning. >> what kind of art? >> you name it. we have people who make the

they don't have a lot of personal responsibility. so a few bad years, a few bad years.research that has been done on this subject, it is just the opposite. the first few years in the job market are crucial to establishing a career track and life's trajectory of young people. and people who struggle, cohorts in generations to struggle early because of a bad economy can get stuck in bad jobs or can't find work at all and never fully recover. they not only start out behind, but, according to a good research by the yale economist we seconde, ten, 20, 30 years later they have not caught up to where they would have been if they came out in more bountiful times. they get stuck in low prestige jobs and professions. they cling more tightly to their jobs. they don't switch jobs as often, which is really how one increases in earnings, particularly in -- early in one's career. about two-thirds of lifetime income growth after you factor out inflation usually occurs in the first ten years of a career. as this recession stretches three, four, more years a lot of people are losing that

it wants to, you know, make them start paying a lot more towards health coverage. it wants to freeze their pensions. it wants to reduce job security. guarantees. i think many companies how a days with the economy so weak with unemployment so high feel it's a time that they can, you know, west concessions out of unions. the labor movement is trying very hard to stop that. in detroit now with, you know, general motors, chrysler ford rebounding very nicely after the major concessions the unions gave a few years ago they're trying to go on the offensive and saying you companies are doing so well why don't you pay us more and provide us with better benefits. >> suarez: same question. what's your general diagnosis? >> the union movement is in a lot of trouble. their unionization rates are lower than when roosevelt first signed the national labor relations act. the reason is competition in the economy. when did detroit start going downhill? when you had toyota and honda and the like in many cases building cars with american workers but non-union american workers and came i

a lot of people keep year for jobs. and then potrero hill is very different because is kind of a new yuppie population, and little hollywood and dog patch. >> historical, district and has been home to shipyards, heavy industry, and a naval base. now, the naval base and most of the shipyards and factories are closed, but the environmental problems continue to impact the district. let's hear how residents are responding to the environmental and health issues they are facing. >> it was hard to breathe last night. i woke up coughing, you know? those are the things that we go through because of the contamination out here. >> this community has a history of issues, environmental issues that have been let go, just run amok. sitting in a meeting once with the health department, we discovered haphazardly that they had known for years that in bayview hunters point, african- american women under the age of 50 had the highest rate of breast cancer in the entire state, but the health department has noted for years, and they failed to

it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and me so yeah that makes you know a good picture of myself it's better to see afghans looking at it in this context while wearing the uniform if you're in the right. to back that was. going to make and saying we're going to help you to discern one by being under distress how many danes and this are we going to help you where is the help. we can go to this thing to get to our kids are going into fighting and they do their own kids painted a person i don't indeed and. i do sympathize or understand what you're some were saying it's even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody to help them so when you have when you can feed yourself the earth how yourself are you to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand this because of about over the top of this you know that i never thought to ask those questions of. anybody here so why we're here amazingly in a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its ro

and nato and afghanistan so we created that we listen to we can order a lot of the really good commanders inside afghanistan many who are moderate such as most sued another one of pashtoon and during the one nine hundred ninety s. after the civil war which was a brutal civil war the battle for callable where technology was shelling more those killed as many as fifty thousand afghans during the soviet war it caught it was untouched practically it was actually the civil war between amongst the afghans which destroyed the city it looks like reza. and i was there and i should get three badly badly destroyed so after the age of the so it's up this after they've been so good and then when the began to emerge many afghans actually supported the taliban because the taliban promised peace security and they did do that but when they came into power in kabul in september one thousand nine hundred sixty they began to repress the other minority groups such as the tajiks that was ours that was specs and in that time the u.s. was involved unocal an american company with a consortium to that every pipeli

you know we don't know how but forty million bucks was a lot of money. it was reported the washington post. that the taliban had offered to arrest osama bin laden and turn him over to a third country not the united states which with their country for trial if the bush administration would present any evidence that he was had something to do write a lot and i pretty much everybody was horrified a lot of how different would the world be even george bush and. arrest him. put him on trial in the hague or something like that you know would present the evidence and by the way here's a couple billion dollars to rebuild your country and we're spending really respect started a thousand billion there now so exactly how different would the world be if there are two aspects one was in two thousand and one there was actually a growing and to tell a lie and saying developed i must suit. some other moderate commanders and they were bringing in a lot of tol'able who were becoming totally disenchanted with the party started dominance the dominance of the arabs the all the

i have been through a lot of managers, and the staff. i have an excellent staff, and it was a team effort to get those citation protests down. >> on behalf of the board of directors, thank you for your fine work. [applause] them mr. director, finally, i would like to ask -- >> mr. director, finally, i would like to ask lucian berger to step forward. he started in 2007, and he is the lead for capital controls. coming from an agency that was doing a lot of capital work, the capital controls function within the capital program, i appreciate, is one that is extremely important but often overlooked. he has distinguished himself by designing custom tools to help track the many millions of dollars and dozens of projects that the agency influence. he assists in the design and development of a new quarterly reports that it leave you all received about a month ago. it is up on our website. very easy snapshot, easy way to see and get a sense of each of the agency was the capital projects and where they are in their timeline. he is known for his effe

a lot of people just don't have insurance so what they should do because they can't afford it, what they should do is go into the insurance market assuming they don't have a preexisting condition. if you don't you can find a much less expensive deductible. the key is you want to have something if you can get it. if you're one of those unlucky people who has a preexisting condition the option are much, much more narrow. >> along those lines take a quick listen to what something everyone seemed to agree on at the cnn tea party republican debate in tampa this past monday. take a listen. >> the bill to repeal obama care. >> we cannot go forward with obama care. >> i will use an executive order to get rid of as much of obama care as i can on day one. >> first appeal obama care in its entirety. >> a waiver for obama care in all 50 states. >> you get the point they're trying to make by that clip. they all want to appeal what they're calling obama care but what is the alternative you know of? what happens to all of the uninsured americans if the republicans are successful in overturning presiden

they also sell a lot of ink. how do you get conglomerate with these systems rolling in the same direction. that's one problem. secondly, they have a devicive board. ray lang would say this is not the hp board of old. this isn't the hp board that spied on employees and reporters and solicited phone records. but yet the people we talk to, our sources say there must be something institutional going on where this board keeps chewing through ceos. >> i guess the basic question i have is this is a pretty big step up business wise. when she left ebay i think she left with about 16,000 employees and 300 employees at hp. and, she's a billionaire already. there is no guarantee she is going to succeed. why does she want this job? >> on one handing with this is a chance for her, of course, to refurbish her reputation. as far as the size, of course she has run nothing of this size before. she admitted to that. yesterday when i spoke with her she told me she has run large companies. she also pointed to her experience of buying

years cycles here forty years is not that i mean maybe they got it wrong the first round but there's a lot of room to fix things up ok well on this area of subject of hope i was just looking on the web and stumbled upon a story about kiva dot org which is a peer to peer lending site and over three hundred fifty thousand individuals in the first world have loaned money to three hundred fifty thousand people in the third world micro loans. exactly what you're saying was going on five thousand years ago they've extended credit. terms that are reasonable and they have boosted the economy in huge ways so i mean that's a hopeful sign i suppose you could say if that model could be embraced on a slightly larger scale correct absolutely i mean there's a million solutions and the one thing the world doesn't lack is smart people if we put our minds to this it would be very easy to come up with alternative money systems alternative ways to arrange these things i have friends in asheville who set up a alternative money systems with software that sort of anybody can use and they've got thousands of peop

of people just become you know very defeated in a sense and i think that's why a lot of people in our communities turned you out to the drugs for example is a symptom of alienation feeling as if you're totally be in their own we can't do anything you know to counter the your profession that we face and that was georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers with rap artist and activist marcel cartier and. those not just the c.e.o.'s on wall street that seem to be totally absorbed in their own schemes without any care about the rest of the world around them it seems to so do many of the lawmakers in washington d.c. members of congress are once again bringing the federal government to the brink of closing overspending now if you're experiencing deja vu right now there's a good reason this is the third time this year that huge disagreement over spending has brought about a government to a stand up and there was the initial budget battle as well as the debt ceiling debate and now this standoff between the house and senate over emergency funding about three and a half billion do

we have learned a lot and are well educated for going forward. please look for a written report on these proceedings by the end of the meeting. also we look forward to a report on april 13, 2009 of the joint hearing with the human rights commission by the end of the year. thank you all for coming here this evening. [applause] >> the meeting is adjourned.

i do a lot of work as a police volunteer, and i watch the back doors, and there are a lot of people boarding the back doors, especially 38 geary, that i ride every day practically. it is out of control. we're losing a lot of money. >> is there anyone else who wishes to address the board on the executive director's report? director nolan: seeing none, let's move to the next item. before we do that, i should have said to director oka's, earlier, that would be a concern if we get asked mr. -- if we could ask mr. reiskin to look at those as well. i also want to talk about recognizing people in the taxi industry for the contributions they make on a daily basis. i think that is a long overdue idea. >> item 8, citizens advisory council report. director nolan: good afternoon, mr. murphy. >> good afternoon. i am the chair of the mta citizens advisory council. before i get started, i always enjoy seeing the employee recognition awards. i was particularly happy to see the award given to mr. alvarez. since i was just recently a victim of a copper fell -- copper theft at my home. i want to extend a welco

drives money towards education health care those those sectors are bloated and there's a lot of money that's being spent there in a very wasteful matter but obviously there are people who benefit from that wasteful spending because that's that's the source of of their income so there is it is higher in states you would see that is feeding off the public trough and you know rock obama is there to fill it up and so there are plenty of people that benefit from it and they helped reelect them in the course you know you've got. the drug companies i've a pharmaceutical companies benefit large programs for arms of benefit there are a number of companies that i think are direct beneficiaries of a lot of these government. programs a lot of regulations that stifle competition benefit the companies that are being protected by competition but i think the fire coverage suffers from these big government calls so if you know you run for office do you think that this is why obama's campaign election apparatus have not been as impacted by the economy as one would believe is that we're talking about no