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blue cross blue shield and medicare as well, so it takes it down to $1500. but my children -- i have two children. they each receive $460 apiece. all of that together is a little higher than what it is rated, but life is hard but you have to realize if you are not out there working every day and you're collecting money from social security that you have paid in, it is time for a life change and we have to try to live within our means. right now, i have a roommate, not something that i'm used to. food is difficult to buy, especially now with prices going so high. but i try not to focus it all on one particular individual like the president. i know there is a whole process in play. we have three branches of government. as far as changes that could be made to social security, it will be nice if they would give the people that paid in the amount they paid in as a percentage and if you do not pay into social security all your life and try to come onto the system, that is just the way it should be. as far as the donald trump comments, with these tax cuts i made $11,000 more cash per year every year he was in office and it allowed our family to finally hit $60,000 a year. we have struggled through the bush, clinton euros. that was my entire life, bush, clinton. $11,000 more to bring home per year with that tax-cut for a lower middle-class family -- it is really good. with social security you have to take the money. you have to budget it. you might have to change your lifestyle. if you are used to being -- making $120,000 a year and driving a nice car and having a nice home and now you find yourself in a position where you have brain cancer and it is a terminal disease, life changes. so you have to adapt and re-budget what you have. host: thank you for your call. we hope you are doing better and appreciate your comments. we will go to roger in north carolina on the over 65 line. caller: good morning. i'm not going to talk about social security if it is ok. host: that is our topic. you can call back at about 9:00 if you have a comment on another issue. caller: i will talk about social security. the problem we have with our government is it is a united states corporation, not a republic. it is all written on paper. you can look it up on the internet. it will surprise a lot of people. it will shock people. money is what runs washington, d.c. mandate is corrupt. that is the sad thing. and when i was in germany, why do you think so many veterans stay in germany? there are hundreds of them. it is because they get a better deal, a better life. it is sad, so i throw that in. what else? host: what changes would you support to social security? are you retired? >> i am retired. i would say the rich have to pay. they are going to have to contribute. it is part of the law. it is part of being an american. the way they are in germany, i'm going to throw that in. the veterans -- another thing is everybody up there, all the senators and the house and senate, they are all -- i hate to say this, but when you live in germany you see it. they are all money grubber's. it is not allowed in germany. host: we will hear from tom in illinois on the over 65 line. caller: i agree with the last caller. our congress -- the cia and fbi, everybody is grabbing money and they went and grabbed our social security money. i am 65. i have been putting in. but just to refute -- i do not know where you think the republicans are going to revamp social security. trump was already president. he was not authoritarian. he was the president before he even got in they were spying on him trying to get rid of him. host: do you have something you would like to see changed about social security or a change you would support? caller: the change i would support him if they quit taking the money and leave it alone. host: we will go to damien in georgia on the over 65 line. caller: this is my first time talking to you. i wanted to welcome you to the c-span family. great. hope everything goes well for you. listen, under reagan and then bush, they stole all that money from social security and had the nerve to call it now entitlement, which is a slap in the face to everybody. what george bush senior did was all those under his cronies, they took all the money out of social security, anything that had a large fund to it, they stole all of that. that last guy that called the rich guy and said you poor people need to stop blooming the rich, he said the same thing that is the problem with america, that those who have looked down on those who have not. those who have not, it is your fault that you are poor. that is a problem that we have that we need to change along with social security and everything else in this country. >> in the washington post this morning, this column from the caller money columnist the headline is, it is time to retire these five common myths about social security. here are the five she lists. social security is or will be bankrupt. young adults will not benefit from social security. a shortfall makes collecting early a wiser move. number four, the federal government has rated the social security trust fund. number five, members of congress do not pay social security taxes. we will go to jack in florida on the over 65 line. caller: good morning. i call in every once in a while so i am probably a little bit nervous but i am on social security. i understand it is going to run out when i will be 99 years old. so i might be here and i might not be. anyway, i depend on social security. i get just a little under what the average payment is per month, but it helps me do what i have to do to stay in an apartment. i live in an apartment. i was living in a retirement home and it went up. i got a raise this year -- last year. and they took the rays that i got and they increased the rent that much, so 8%. and i was going to move anyway because i could not stay there much longer. i stayed probably too long, but to me social security is vital in my well-being, per se. so i -- what they should do is make everybody, when they start paying in social security, everybody, they should be 100% everybody pay mac -- pay from january 1 to december 31 and they would not have an issue with social security other than having officials pay into the fund every once in a while, like the other caller said they had maybe five since i have been paying in social security and that is wrong. they should not put a limit on the amount that people pay. i have relatives that pay maybe one month in social security and the rest of the year is an increase in their pay and that is true. everybody should pay and have the federal government and politicians keep their hands off of that. it is a fund, not an entitlement. host: we will go to andrew in long island on the 40 to 65 line. caller: i have a couple issues on social security. i'm a veteran and i do get social security and i do pay and. first, we have the republicans who want cut no matter what happens to the regular person, they want you to lose every dime you have ever accumulated because they do not want you getting generational wealth. they want to take warehouse and everything for every little thing. if you get sick, any little thing. then you have joe biden, who does not have a problem giving away every dime to anybody, whether they are a citizen or not. i can do a few things. i can do a little bit of work. can joe biden come up with a way to not let people work? he tells able-bodied body to 20-year-olds that they do not have to work and they can collect welfare and he tells people like me who can do a few hours a week that i'm not allowed to work. what is the work that can happen? this is ridiculous. host: we will go to johnny in alabama on the over 65 line. are you there? johnny in alabama, one more time. we will move onto christina in florida on the 40 to 65 line. caller: good morning. show me exactly what billionaire social security kickback for government is. that is what i want to see. the billionaires make oodles of money can't yet they do not have enough in their savings? show me what joe biden's social security check is, please. host: tim in washington, 40 to 65 line. go ahead. caller: i was just washing or show and i heard talking about different things. in my opinion, they should just take the cap off or raise it quite a bit and reinvest into the entire social security disability system as well as the other department that support it and i think it is just crazy the way they run it and i think it could be fixed if they had the political will to do it instead of treating it like a football similar to the border. i think it would be good if people that came across the border that wanted to work got the ability to work and pay into the tax system and social security system until they become legal citizens. that is if they come across legally, not if they just run across and do not turn themselves in and get background checks, so it is all a common nation of things that politicians tend to use as a football during elections. if we tell the politicians they cannot play football anymore until they are office, maybe they will get on the field and get each other beat up a little. i digress. but that is mine. host: during a senate special agent committee hearing, florida senator rick scott asked the social security administration or about the financial future of the program. here is what he said. >> we just got president biden's fourth budget and there was nothing in the budget that actually protects social security from the standpoint of it did not reduce when it was going to go bankrupt. there has been nothing, which surprised me so i cannot imagine if you had come as governor, what your pension plan was -- so are you surprised that there is nothing in the budget to deal with the issue of social security? >> when i was elected governor, the pension system was very challenged, facing unsustainable and immediate unsustainable future and we had to fix that. people were not happy about it, but we fixed it. the depletion of that, as the actuaries call it contradistinction from bankruptcy, that is now estimated to be happening in 2034. that would be the point if men and women of our congress do not act as your predecessors did about a month before the last depletion event in 1982, if you do not act it is true that social security would only have 77% of the dollars that it needs to meet full benefits. i am not terribly surprised because i also know, in terms of a formal proposal from the president, i know he has been clear about his policy decision and i also know he has consistently stated his desire to see those that earn more than $400,000 to start to pay into social security again. i also know from having gone through the confirmation process and met with many of you that there are a lot of ideas out there. there are some who told me we should try to do this right now. there are others who said there is no way in the political dynamics of an election year that this can get solved right now. and we need to do it after the next election. fortunately, i no longer have a political job, so those calculations are not mind to make. they are yours to make. we have great actuaries. anyway we can be of help as you think about this, we will be very responsive and able to do so. host: we have about 10 minutes left in this discussion about what changes to social security you would support. we will go next to rory in georgia on the over 65 line. >> i have two questions. first, i do receive social security and i pay my premium each month. if i go to the doctor, medicare puts in a claim against my social security, but if i do not go to the doctor i assume that money remains in social security itself into the trust fund. what i would change is the medicare supplement because there are people paying for medicare supplement each month, whether they go to the doctor or not. that money is going into private insurance companies out of social security, so the insurance company is going to profit but social security -- medicare is operating at a deficit. it is the same thing, so if i made some changes, i might take things away for medicare advanced -- advantage can't take some things for medicare advantage and add it to social security but there is so much money going to private insurance companies every month, even when a person does not go to the doctor. that is the first thing. then educate the public. people need to be educated about medicare and medicaid because people on medicaid need to know if you go on medicaid everything you own goes to the government. your house cut your money, your savings. they take everything. the only thing your left is $2500. if you have a car, it is gone. if you have a house, it is gone. i would stop that money from going to private insurance companies and let everybody go on medicare and make the appropriate changes to include those benefits. host: we will go to kevin in georgia on the 40 to 65 line. caller: i was calling to say the caller before must have warms in his brain too so it is obvious he does not know what he is talking about. i don't want nobody touching my social security. that money belongs to me. it is mine. i earned it. i am entitled to it. i want to keep it that way. i want to grow old with it with my husband and i want the government to leave my money alone. host: are there changes to the program you would support? caller: i just -- i get my money every week -- every year my increase doubles and i want to keep it that way. host: we will go to chris in pittsburgh on the over 65 line. caller: i am 69. i guess i'm one of the bad baby boomers who caused all the problems. earlier, i heard that -- on program, that around 10,000 baby boomers are going into the program every day, so i just used my search and it shows that , according to the u.s. census bureau, 2.6 baby boomers die each year went which is more than 7000 funerals per day, so 10,000 are coming in, 7000 are going out. over a time, this big bump of baby boomers is going to dissipate, but being that social security is the third rail and you cannot make any adjustments or even talk about it in politics, the problem keeps going on. if they would just do a little bit of everything, maybe bump it up to 63 and may people pay in a little more than what they are paying in and then extend the cap a little bit country a little bit of everything, my guess is we would get through this bump of all these baby boomers that happened right after world war two and everybody came home and wanted to make a new life and things will dissipate over time. i'm sure the actuarial's are showing this but nobody talks about it. i would be interested to talk about the aspect of the problem. host: in illinois on the 40 to 65 line. caller: here's the thing i think should change. i lost my husband during covid and i have a railroad pension. what i did not know what would happen is that -- let's say if i even had social security, what they do is they do not give you two social security whatever. you take what you do even though you have been married for 35, 40 years, they give you one benefit. they do not give you two benefits, so when he died they gave me $225 to bury him, which is ridiculous, and immediately cut off his social security so i was left with just my pension to survive on. that made it so difficult with trying to help out with the grandchildren and whatnot or just myself to survive. what i think needs to change is, especially being married and stuff, is why would they cut out your husband who works for 70 years -- why would they not give me his benefits were if i had died why would he not receive my benefits? that is one of the things i would like to see changed. most people i talked to when i tell them this story, they say, i did not even know that. i had just assumed. so they go home and they check it out and i get calls back and they say i was not aware of that until you told me that, so that is one of the things i would like to see change. host: we will go to dave in minnesota on the 40 to 65 line. caller: what i would support as raising the rate. it has not been raised since 1990. it is 6.2% you pay cut the same as your employer. i think it is time to raise that and that will help because the population is not -- is inverting. we will have an upside down pyramid as the population keeps decreasing, so we will have to raise the rate to keep social security going on that is the only thing that will save it. host: are you collecting social security yet? caller: host: i am not. how many years before you do? caller: i will wait until the maximum age. host: let's go to sandy in ohio on the over 65 line. caller: if social security is in such bad shape, wide did they give us -- you made a few bucks more and then it changes were health care. you are making $10 too much now. so you were taking away this benefit because you make too much, so i do not think that is right. also, wanting to raise the retirement age -- if you have a desk job cut you might be able to work until you are into her 80's, maybe, or like the senate. but if you are doing a labor job your body wears out. you cannot do it to much longer, so that is my comment. i know many elderly people and they all say -- i'm almost 80 myself. that is what they said. i wish they would have left it alone because it changed so many things now. with the few dollars they give us. thank you so much. host: brian in new york, 40 to 65 line. caller: my biggest point on this, i am 54 years old. i have been working since i was 14. i spent 23 years plus as a union bricklayer and the previous lady's comments on my line of work and the toll it takes on the body -- my question is for the government. they foresaw this almost two decades ago. they knew we would run out of social security funds. and the rich get richer and the middle class like me stay where we are and are benefits get cut and hurt by programs and i think i have already foreseen the fact that, by the time i retire -- if i can make it to 65 they want me to work until 67 as a mason. unfathomable. like the lady previously said, if you have a desk job that is fine. my line of work is extremely physical and demanding on the body and to try to push it and make me work longer for less benefits -- i have been paying in. that money should be deserved and available, but i think everybody pretty much knows the system is broke and going to be broke. host: our last call. we will go to john in falls church, virginia on the over 65 line. caller: i have done very well during my life. i am 75 now. if you go social security system. i put in $67,000. for most of my working life i was at the top end, and usually in august or september, october, my social security contribution away -- went away. right now i'm making $44,000 per year in social security benefits. so all those people who say raise the rate, if my rate had been higher i would be making probably 55,000 dollars, $60,000 and i would be a whole lot happier. so just raising the rate is not going to help social security. it will help in the short term, but in the long-term it would make it even worse. host: that is it for the first hour. we still have a couple more hours on washington journal. next we are going to be joined by christian science monitor and national political correspondent story hinkcley and andrew prokop where they will discuss campaign 2024 and political news of the day. we will be right back. announcer: this week on the c-span networks, the house and senate are in session. the house will take up a final version of a five-year faa reauthorization bill to extend its program past the deadline. they are also expected to consider several police-related enforce security lting national police beat this week. wednesda ainistrator of the faa -- their highway administration jennifer holland heestified before the house 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blue cross blue shield and medicare as well, so it takes it down to $1500. but my children -- i have two children. they each receive $460 apiece. all of that together is a little higher than what it is rated, but life is hard but you have to realize if you are not out there working every day and you're collecting money from social security that you have paid in, it is time for a life change and we have to try to live within our means. right now, i have a roommate, not something that i'm used to. food is difficult to buy, especially now with prices going so high. but i try not to focus it all on one particular individual like the president. i know there is a whole process in play. we have three branches of government. as far as changes that could be made to social security, it will be nice if they would give the people that paid in the amount they paid in as a percentage and if you do not pay into social security all your life and try to come onto the system, that is just the way it should be. as far as the donald trump comments, with these tax cuts i made $11,000 more cash per year every year he was in office and it allowed our family to finally hit $60,000 a year. we have struggled through the bush, clinton euros. that was my entire life, bush, clinton. $11,000 more to bring home per year with that tax-cut for a lower middle-class family -- it is really good. with social security you have to take the money. you have to budget it. you might have to change your lifestyle. if you are used to being -- making $120,000 a year and driving a nice car and having a nice home and now you find yourself in a position where you have brain cancer and it is a terminal disease, life changes. so you have to adapt and re-budget what you have. host: thank you for your call. we hope you are doing better and appreciate your comments. we will go to roger in north carolina on the over 65 line. caller: good morning. i'm not going to talk about social security if it is ok. host: that is our topic. you can call back at about 9:00 if you have a comment on another issue. caller: i will talk about social security. the problem we have with our government is it is a united states corporation, not a republic. it is all written on paper. you can look it up on the internet. it will surprise a lot of people. it will shock people. money is what runs washington, d.c. mandate is corrupt. that is the sad thing. and when i was in germany, why do you think so many veterans stay in germany? there are hundreds of them. it is because they get a better deal, a better life. it is sad, so i throw that in. what else? host: what changes would you support to social security? are you retired? >> i am retired. i would say the rich have to pay. they are going to have to contribute. it is part of the law. it is part of being an american. the way they are in germany, i'm going to throw that in. the veterans -- another thing is everybody up there, all the senators and the house and senate, they are all -- i hate to say this, but when you live in germany you see it. they are all money grubber's. it is not allowed in germany. host: we will hear from tom in illinois on the over 65 line. caller: i agree with the last caller. our congress -- the cia and fbi, everybody is grabbing money and they went and grabbed our social security money. i am 65. i have been putting in. but just to refute -- i do not know where you think the republicans are going to revamp social security. trump was already president. he was not authoritarian. he was the president before he even got in they were spying on him trying to get rid of him. host: do you have something you would like to see changed about social security or a change you would support? caller: the change i would support him if they quit taking the money and leave it alone. host: we will go to damien in georgia on the over 65 line. caller: this is my first time talking to you. i wanted to welcome you to the c-span family. great. hope everything goes well for you. listen, under reagan and then bush, they stole all that money from social security and had the nerve to call it now entitlement, which is a slap in the face to everybody. what george bush senior did was all those under his cronies, they took all the money out of social security, anything that had a large fund to it, they stole all of that. that last guy that called the rich guy and said you poor people need to stop blooming the rich, he said the same thing that is the problem with america, that those who have looked down on those who have not. those who have not, it is your fault that you are poor. that is a problem that we have that we need to change along with social security and everything else in this country. >> in the washington post this morning, this column from the caller money columnist the headline is, it is time to retire these five common myths about social security. here are the five she lists. social security is or will be bankrupt. young adults will not benefit from social security. a shortfall makes collecting early a wiser move. number four, the federal government has rated the social security trust fund. number five, members of congress do not pay social security taxes. we will go to jack in florida on the over 65 line. caller: good morning. i call in every once in a while so i am probably a little bit nervous but i am on social security. i understand it is going to run out when i will be 99 years old. so i might be here and i might not be. anyway, i depend on social security. i get just a little under what the average payment is per month, but it helps me do what i have to do to stay in an apartment. i live in an apartment. i was living in a retirement home and it went up. i got a raise this year -- last year. and they took the rays that i got and they increased the rent that much, so 8%. and i was going to move anyway because i could not stay there much longer. i stayed probably too long, but to me social security is vital in my well-being, per se. so i -- what they should do is make everybody, when they start paying in social security, everybody, they should be 100% everybody pay mac -- pay from january 1 to december 31 and they would not have an issue with social security other than having officials pay into the fund every once in a while, like the other caller said they had maybe five since i have been paying in social security and that is wrong. they should not put a limit on the amount that people pay. i have relatives that pay maybe one month in social security and the rest of the year is an increase in their pay and that is true. everybody should pay and have the federal government and politicians keep their hands off of that. it is a fund, not an entitlement. host: we will go to andrew in long island on the 40 to 65 line. caller: i have a couple issues on social security. i'm a veteran and i do get social security and i do pay and. first, we have the republicans who want cut no matter what happens to the regular person, they want you to lose every dime you have ever accumulated because they do not want you getting generational wealth. they want to take warehouse and everything for every little thing. if you get sick, any little thing. then you have joe biden, who does not have a problem giving away every dime to anybody, whether they are a citizen or not. i can do a few things. i can do a little bit of work. can joe biden come up with a way to not let people work? he tells able-bodied body to 20-year-olds that they do not have to work and they can collect welfare and he tells people like me who can do a few hours a week that i'm not allowed to work. what is the work that can happen? this is ridiculous. host: we will go to johnny in alabama on the over 65 line. are you there? johnny in alabama, one more time. we will move onto christina in florida on the 40 to 65 line. caller: good morning. show me exactly what billionaire social security kickback for government is. that is what i want to see. the billionaires make oodles of money can't yet they do not have enough in their savings? show me what joe biden's social security check is, please. host: tim in washington, 40 to 65 line. go ahead. caller: i was just washing or show and i heard talking about different things. in my opinion, they should just take the cap off or raise it quite a bit and reinvest into the entire social security disability system as well as the other department that support it and i think it is just crazy the way they run it and i think it could be fixed if they had the political will to do it instead of treating it like a football similar to the border. i think it would be good if people that came across the border that wanted to work got the ability to work and pay into the tax system and social security system until they become legal citizens. that is if they come across legally, not if they just run across and do not turn themselves in and get background checks, so it is all a common nation of things that politicians tend to use as a football during elections. if we tell the politicians they cannot play football anymore until they are office, maybe they will get on the field and get each other beat up a little. i digress. but that is mine. host: during a senate special agent committee hearing, florida senator rick scott asked the social security administration or about the financial future of the program. here is what he said. >> we just got president biden's fourth budget and there was nothing in the budget that actually protects social security from the standpoint of it did not reduce when it was going to go bankrupt. there has been nothing, which surprised me so i cannot imagine if you had come as governor, what your pension plan was -- so are you surprised that there is nothing in the budget to deal with the issue of social security? >> when i was elected governor, the pension system was very challenged, facing unsustainable and immediate unsustainable future and we had to fix that. people were not happy about it, but we fixed it. the depletion of that, as the actuaries call it contradistinction from bankruptcy, that is now estimated to be happening in 2034. that would be the point if men and women of our congress do not act as your predecessors did about a month before the last depletion event in 1982, if you do not act it is true that social security would only have 77% of the dollars that it needs to meet full benefits. i am not terribly surprised because i also know, in terms of a formal proposal from the president, i know he has been clear about his policy decision and i also know he has consistently stated his desire to see those that earn more than $400,000 to start to pay into social security again. i also know from having gone through the confirmation process and met with many of you that there are a lot of ideas out there. there are some who told me we should try to do this right now. there are others who said there is no way in the political dynamics of an election year that this can get solved right now. and we need to do it after the next election. fortunately, i no longer have a political job, so those calculations are not mind to make. they are yours to make. we have great actuaries. anyway we can be of help as you think about this, we will be very responsive and able to do so. host: we have about 10 minutes left in this discussion about what changes to social security you would support. we will go next to rory in georgia on the over 65 line. >> i have two questions. first, i do receive social security and i pay my premium each month. if i go to the doctor, medicare puts in a claim against my social security, but if i do not go to the doctor i assume that money remains in social security itself into the trust fund. what i would change is the medicare supplement because there are people paying for medicare supplement each month, whether they go to the doctor or not. that money is going into private insurance companies out of social security, so the insurance company is going to profit but social security -- medicare is operating at a deficit. it is the same thing, so if i made some changes, i might take things away for medicare advanced -- advantage can't take some things for medicare advantage and add it to social security but there is so much money going to private insurance companies every month, even when a person does not go to the doctor. that is the first thing. then educate the public. people need to be educated about medicare and medicaid because people on medicaid need to know if you go on medicaid everything you own goes to the government. your house cut your money, your savings. they take everything. the only thing your left is $2500. if you have a car, it is gone. if you have a house, it is gone. i would stop that money from going to private insurance companies and let everybody go on medicare and make the appropriate changes to include those benefits. host: we will go to kevin in georgia on the 40 to 65 line. caller: i was calling to say the caller before must have warms in his brain too so it is obvious he does not know what he is talking about. i don't want nobody touching my social security. that money belongs to me. it is mine. i earned it. i am entitled to it. i want to keep it that way. i want to grow old with it with my husband and i want the government to leave my money alone. host: are there changes to the program you would support? caller: i just -- i get my money every week -- every year my increase doubles and i want to keep it that way. host: we will go to chris in pittsburgh on the over 65 line. caller: i am 69. i guess i'm one of the bad baby boomers who caused all the problems. earlier, i heard that -- on program, that around 10,000 baby boomers are going into the program every day, so i just used my search and it shows that , according to the u.s. census bureau, 2.6 baby boomers die each year went which is more than 7000 funerals per day, so 10,000 are coming in, 7000 are going out. over a time, this big bump of baby boomers is going to dissipate, but being that social security is the third rail and you cannot make any adjustments or even talk about it in politics, the problem keeps going on. if they would just do a little bit of everything, maybe bump it up to 63 and may people pay in a little more than what they are paying in and then extend the cap a little bit country a little bit of everything, my guess is we would get through this bump of all these baby boomers that happened right after world war two and everybody came home and wanted to make a new life and things will dissipate over time. i'm sure the actuarial's are showing this but nobody talks about it. i would be interested to talk about the aspect of the problem. host: in illinois on the 40 to 65 line. caller: here's the thing i think should change. i lost my husband during covid and i have a railroad pension. what i did not know what would happen is that -- let's say if i even had social security, what they do is they do not give you two social security whatever. you take what you do even though you have been married for 35, 40 years, they give you one benefit. they do not give you two benefits, so when he died they gave me $225 to bury him, which is ridiculous, and immediately cut off his social security so i was left with just my pension to survive on. that made it so difficult with trying to help out with the grandchildren and whatnot or just myself to survive. what i think needs to change is, especially being married and stuff, is why would they cut out your husband who works for 70 years -- why would they not give me his benefits were if i had died why would he not receive my benefits? that is one of the things i would like to see changed. most people i talked to when i tell them this story, they say, i did not even know that. i had just assumed. so they go home and they check it out and i get calls back and they say i was not aware of that until you told me that, so that is one of the things i would like to see change. host: we will go to dave in minnesota on the 40 to 65 line. caller: what i would support as raising the rate. it has not been raised since 1990. it is 6.2% you pay cut the same as your employer. i think it is time to raise that and that will help because the population is not -- is inverting. we will have an upside down pyramid as the population keeps decreasing, so we will have to raise the rate to keep social security going on that is the only thing that will save it. host: are you collecting social security yet? caller: host: i am not. how many years before you do? caller: i will wait until the maximum age. host: let's go to sandy in ohio on the over 65 line. caller: if social security is in such bad shape, wide did they give us -- you made a few bucks more and then it changes were health care. you are making $10 too much now. so you were taking away this benefit because you make too much, so i do not think that is right. also, wanting to raise the retirement age -- if you have a desk job cut you might be able to work until you are into her 80's, maybe, or like the senate. but if you are doing a labor job your body wears out. you cannot do it to much longer, so that is my comment. i know many elderly people and they all say -- i'm almost 80 myself. that is what they said. i wish they would have left it alone because it changed so many things now. with the few dollars they give us. thank you so much. host: brian in new york, 40 to 65 line. caller: my biggest point on this, i am 54 years old. i have been working since i was 14. i spent 23 years plus as a union bricklayer and the previous lady's comments on my line of work and the toll it takes on the body -- my question is for the government. they foresaw this almost two decades ago. they knew we would run out of social security funds. and the rich get richer and the middle class like me stay where we are and are benefits get cut and hurt by programs and i think i have already foreseen the fact that, by the time i retire -- if i can make it to 65 they want me to work until 67 as a mason. unfathomable. like the lady previously said, if you have a desk job that is fine. my line of work is extremely physical and demanding on the body and to try to push it and make me work longer for less benefits -- i have been paying in. that money should be deserved and available, but i think everybody pretty much knows the system is broke and going to be broke. host: our last call. we will go to john in falls church, virginia on the over 65 line. caller: i have done very well during my life. i am 75 now. if you go social security system. i put in $67,000. for most of my working life i was at the top end, and usually in august or september, october, my social security contribution away -- went away. right now i'm making $44,000 per year in social security benefits. so all those people who say raise the rate, if my rate had been higher i would be making probably 55,000 dollars, $60,000 and i would be a whole lot happier. so just raising the rate is not going to help social security. it will help in the short term, but in the long-term it would make it even worse. host: that is it for the first hour. we still have a couple more hours on washington journal. next we are going to be joined by christian science monitor and national political correspondent story hinkcley and andrew prokop where they will discuss campaign 2024 and political news of the day. we will be right back. announcer: this week on the c-span networks, the house and senate are in session. the house will take up a final version of a five-year faa reauthorization bill to extend its program past the deadline. they are also expected to consider several police-related enforce security filtering national police beat this week. wednesday, administrator of the faa -- their highway administration jennifer holland he testified before the 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underground railroad which doesn't reach all the way down to the south where they are. not by hiding and traveling by night, but they go out in the full light of day disguised as master and slave, with ellen posing as the pastor and william playing a bowl of the slave. so that story just gripped me from the beginning. >> tonight, on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q&a and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. washington journal continues. host: joining us now to discuss campaign 2024 and political news of the day, national bluerespondent story hinkley and andrew prokop. welcome to the program. >> thanks for having us. host: why don't we talked a little bit about one of the day stories that we can seeing a lot in the headlines, and that of the campus protests. had we seen any impact politically on candidates or parties so far? >> i think the biggest impact has been in really putting the pressure on the biden administration. as many of the protesters intended. the administration is clearly feeling the heat over these issues. they would really like these protests to go away and they want the larger war itself to go away because it is kind of a no-win issue for them. whatever they do will hurt them among some constituencies, so they've been working very hard to try to bring this thing to a close, to help negotiate a cease-fire, but haven't been able to do so yet. but i think the protests are just one factor among many that have made the administration pretty eager and desperate really to try to really get this w

now you see that blue trail, the double truss trail there in blue crossing from the southwest to the northeast, marking x across san francisco. the urban hike takes visitors along hidden trails and through public parks, shopping and community gardens to celebrate, organizers are holding guided hikes on both trails throughout next month. well, hey, a live look from our sutro tower camera on this wednesday evening and you can see right there sunshine. maybe a little bit of fog kind of creeping in. jeff. a little bit of haze, some low level moisture, but it looks warm still. i know postcard perfect out there. never get tired of that view. we could see a little bit of patchy fog right up against the immediate coastline, but otherwise as we move through tomorrow, lots of sun here through the bay area. let me show you what those temperatures are like. if you're headed out here over the next couple of hours, we're starting to see things dip. but overall, the big headline here is we are still very warm, at least for this time of the year. right now, 87 in santa rosa, one of the warmest 85 in

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just crossing the wire today, dana, blue shirt -- sorry, blue tie, white shirt.terday was gold or yellow. earlier trump was hitting the judge in the criminal trial. the judge has yet to rule on accusations trump violated his gag order. former prosecutor is with us now. let's put the gag order to the side. this is the moment from yesterday. we'll play it. so cohen, michael cohen, was recording his conversations with then candidate, then soon to be president donald trump and here is part of what was said about the conversation about regarding stormy daniels. >> i need to open up a company with the transfer of all that info regarding our friend david and i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time fought financing which will be. >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay. >> no. >> no, no, no. >> bill: what did you make of that? how significant? >> this is sounding like michael cohen's deal. we saw yesterday evidence that michael cohen was desperate for a position in washington, whether that was in the white house or otherwise, on so we really have a sense right now

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crossed himself before the starting whistle. indeed, today in in the championship race, not everything depended on denitou and in order for the blue-white-blue champion again. a number of circumstances had to come together for russia; in the end, everything really turned out the way it needed for zenit. krasnodar won the match against dynamo with a score of 1:0, and zenit, in turn, won a strong-willed victory over rostov for the eleventh time in history and for the sixth time in a row , st. petersburg zenit became the national champion. and right now let's listen to the team's head coach sergei semak, who actually led zenit to these six in a row championships. there were moments that we didn’t convert ourselves, i think that here a wonderful goal was scored by a goalkeeper, which was canceled, it’s like the quintessence of the whole season, when we get canceled, incredible goals are scored, we make mistakes ourselves, some stupid penalties, some kind of lack of critical points, those matches in which we were no worse than our opponents, but today everything came back, i’m glad that it came back at the right moment, an incredible season, a de

blue fire boom. based off the night sky or the spain and portugal european space agency says the object appears to be a piece of accomplice. the bright, neon blue lights illuminated the cross at several seconds to the surprise and delight of on lucas. and 2 people have been killed after a bite collision on the done you briefly and hungry risk and risk of searching. the board has north of budapest for 5 people. still missing on gary and police have launched a criminal investigation to determine the cause of the ex well, russian and strikes have killed at least 4 people in ukraine's. so it can be this biggest cd hockey if, according to the regional golfing, to at least 8 authors were injured, the northeast and city has come under the constant bombardment recently as russia presses a head with a new offensive chief has a ques, roster of deliberately targeting civilians which moscow has consistently denied bought many coming on to fire. regardless the 2 children, the plain here. when the guide ariel boom hid this private yacht in central har keith. now officials are assessing the damage. while the father is being treated by paramedics, his wife, and 2 children, all in hospital

what appears to a blue meteor crossing the night sky stubbing millions in spain and portugal yesterday morning. the flash of blueht turned out to be a small piece of comet according to the european space agency that flew at almost 28 miles per second. many on social media calling it a once in a lifetime sight. under a are seeing this morning on "fox & friends," guys. >> steve: did the comet hit anything or just burned out. >> carley: just burned out and gorgeous sight to behold. >> brian: where does it come from? >> carley: the sky. outer space. a little piece broke off. >> brian: it's not a big guy who throws it really hard at earth? >> carley: that's the alternative theory. >> ainsley: the stuff you put in your toilet when you are cleaning it. >> brian: very good. alberto than fabo. >> ainsley: it works and pine oil. isn't that what it's called? >> steve: pine-sol. >> brian: my dog cleaned house. >> ainsley: only thing get rid of the smell. >> steve: diddy now apologizing over the surveillance video that allegedly shows him beating up his ex-girlfriend. how it impacts his other moving legal cases ahead on this

blue gym shorts and blue running shoes. >> happening today, bay area leaders will be gathering at a state to ask state leaders to help build safe crossings over railroad tracks on the peninsula. senator josh becker, who represents parts of san mateo and santa clara counties is calling on the state legislature now and the governor to include 100 million dollars in the state budget for this project. the money says will help build those crossings at locations that have been high risk in the past and improve public safety and alleviate traffic congestion as well. the conference is set for 8.30, this morning. it will be at the burlingame broadway train crossing on california drive and broadway. >> let's talk money this morning. more home buyers are relying on mom and dad to help them make the purchase. and walmart is making changes to their credit cards. jane king is live at the nasdaq with those stories and why jane? >> hi, good morning. so capital one walmart announced they have ended the a capital one. the exclusive issuer of walmart's consumer credit cards. now the company say nothing changes for the card holders. cardholders can continue

blue gym shorts, grey sox and blue running shoes. bay area leaders are going to gather today and ask state leaders to help build safe crossings over railroad tracks along the peninsula. senator josh becker, who represents parts of san mateo and santa clara counties is calling on the legislature and governor newsom to include 100 million dollars in the state budget for this and that money will help build the crossings at locations that are high risk and also improve public safety. and they say alleviate traffic congestion as well. there's a conference set for 8.30, this morning at the berlin, a broadway train crossing on california drive and broadway. >> we're going take a break or 6.10, but still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, a fire investigation continues as crews work on cleaning up in east bay lumber yard warehouse. and also ahead, why city officials in san jose are demanding an audit of homeless services. leading up to this year. there was a lot of attention on proposals to create reparations for descendants of enslaved black americans. one out of the legislative session is in full swing. how are those reparations proposals doing >

blue devils are a huge part of concord. they're a world class, competitive junior drum and bugle corps. they cross generational, social and racial barriers. the heads of the blue devils believe participation in a performing arts organization builds discipline, character, pride and self-confidence, and is the springboard to even greater achievement in adulthood. i could listen to these guys and gals all morning long. what a treat to have them here at todos santos plaza in gorgeous concord, california, the very first in our 2024 summer zip trip season. you guys are the best! we'll hear from them throughout the show. first, though, let's get out to frank mallicoat frank. i love it when you run into people who've grown up in the town. we're featuring. oh, i know everything about this place. and it turns out often they don't. that's true. actually. we hit the streets, concord has been around a long time, garcia. how about 119 years? it was incorporated back in 1905. but before concord was concord, it was something else. and it all starts where garcia is right now. todos santos park. before concord was conquered, it was named something else. and this park right in the middle of downtown should give you a very big clue, lafayette. >> lafayette. okay. i think that one was taken. >> diablo. >> diablo. the devil. >> the devil. yes, yes. you're correct. oh, you're kidding. no, no. >> el plaza, el plaza. that's very good idea. yeah, but it's wrong. but good try. >> i'm sure it's wrong. >> i'll give you a hint. what's the name of the park you're in right now? >> todos santos plaza? yeah. >> so what's the name of the town? >> concord, california. >> oh, todos santos, todos santos, is that your final answer? >> c c k bueno. you are correct. yes do you know what todos santos means for extra credit? all saints. wow. home run. was that right? that is right. say hello to don salvio pacheco. he founded todos santos back in the late 1860s, which of course later became concord in 1905. and by the way, what does concord mean? air air like air jordan. >> well, or like airplane, like the concord? >> well, that's a good thought. it's wrong. >> okay. >> it's coming. i know it's coming. come on, move a little. you got it. let's see, let's see. this is kind of, home. home. good job. >> good. good answer. but raw. roughly translate it. concord means to conquer. >> to conquer someone means to, like, take over. >> take over. >> right. so that town took over, i guess. >> so i like the way you're thinking, but it's wrong. >> okay? >> it's a form of grape. it's a form of grape. like jelly. >> like concord grape. >> concord grape? that's correct. okay that's it. no. oh, no. >> well, come to a community. yeah, a community you're heading in the right direction. >> harmony, harmony, harmony. there's no crying. >> there's no crying in baseball. >> two time academy award winner. still a big box office smash today. born in concord, grew up in oakland. any idea who that movie star would be? >> will smith, will smith, concord zone? >> yes. no no no no. life's like a box of chocolates. >> you never know what you're going to get. >> oh, the forrest gump guy, but i don't know his name. >> come on. >> if i said castaway, would that help? >> wow. >> i can give you a hint if you'd like. >> sure. >> wilson. wilson, tom hanks. >> tom hanks. are you sure? >> i don't know if tom hanks was born in concord, though. i know he went to. i know he went to school in oakland. he went with my wife. >> oh, there you go. >> but i'm wrong, right? >> i'm gonna call your wife. you're right. >> okay, good. >> here you are in concord. yeah. can you name the seven municipalities and cities and towns that surround concord? >> there's pleasant hill. ding, ding. there's lafayette. >> no pacheco. ding ding, walnut creek. good. clayton good, good. pleasant hill, austin hill. >> one more for the money. >> lafayette. >> no. no. brentwood. >> antioch. >> no. oakley no. those are far, far away. i'm a big town in pennsylvania, a big city. >> pittsburgh, yes. pittsburgh >> you got it. oh, venetia. >> no, that's across the bay. across the bay? no. >> martinez. >> no. close but no, not bay point. bay point. good knowledge. no one gets that. and the other is clyde. clyde, have you heard of clyde? >> i have heard of clyde. not many have i have heard of clyde. so i should have gotten it. but i didn't. >> all right, we got a show a little love to clyde, california. not too far from where i am. right now. population 721. and if you're wondering, it's a little north of highway four, right near the diablo creek golf club. very small, little unincorporated community, but it is one of the surrounding cities here in concord. one last thing, dave brubeck. back in the late 50s, 60s and 70s, revolutionize jazz. he and his quartet, dave brubeck and take five fame, born right here in concord. and of course, pickleball was actually born in seattle back in the 1960s. but during the pandemic, it exploded. and concord has joined the party. they've got 14 courts here at the willow pass community park. we got a little tournament this morning and coming up later, we're going to find out why pickleball are so excited to play pickleball that much more. we will see you shortly. garcia, back to you. >> from pickleball to tacos, the time has finally come in this 9:00 hour to shine a light on what so many people come to concord for from all over the bay area. so we use, like the nice color printer at home to print out the taco trail here in concord. i have been to so many of these spots and we're now going to learn more from the owners of number 15 on concord's taco trail, el molino, sal castaneda, you have the best assignment today. >> yes we do. as a matter of fact, here we are at todos santos plaza, and i've just been walking around here looking around at all the people, but also, garcia, there are a lot of restaurants around here. if you still want to go to the old spaghetti factory, you can. i found, the editor of the concord pioneer, rich eber, who writes about food in this town. rich, i hate to put you on the spot, short time of the interview. you've gone to all the restaurants here. if you had to choose your favorite place, let's narrow it down to the taco trail. what is it? >> well, there are a lot of good choices, but i have to go with, el molino on, monument at el molino? what, do you like them better? >> they make. they make their. they make their own tortillas there. and it reminds me a lot of la taqueria in san francisco, which is a legendary taco place. >> so here we are, i'm going to walk over here a little bit, so just to give you kind of a wider view of what's going on, if you look back there, that's the set where garcia is, and here is the band and just there's a burger house over there. so there's a lot of things to do here at the center of town, which is todos santos plaza. i would recommend coming out if you come out from the city, come out from oakland. there's easy parking and you can find a restaurant within walking distance. and i've tried so many of them. they're so good. it's like concord is a foodie destination. who would have thought i wouldn't have? he agrees too. all right, so let's go back to you, garcia. >> one of the things that makes concord so beautiful, not just the food, but also the people and the public art. you can just come here with eyes wide open and leave with a bunch of pictures for your instagram feed . when we come back, our claudine wong spoke with some of the local artists who make concord exactly what it is. she'll take us through a walk of a gorgeous open art mural space, and you'll get to see what we see here in concord. of course, to the sounds of the concord blue devils. strike up the band. stay with us the concord blue devils bringing it on a blustery friday morning for this, our first fox local summer zip trip of the season. we are in concord, contra costa county's biggest city, a place where herds of deer, elk, bear and antelope used to roam amidst salmon filled streams. now people come here to live, shop, eat and have a ton of fun and take in a lot of public art as well. i think nothing says we love you. to the residents from a city like public art, places where you can just stroll and feel better. claudine wong is highlighting a really gorgeous part of concord and claudine. it's hard to pick an especially beautiful place amid such a pretty city. >> yes, it's an amazing and what the art is around here is a literal gift to folks and so easy to access. you can walk around and you can visit several murals. we're in front of one of them. we're actually in the parking lot of the brendan theater, and this one is visible from the top roof in a wa

blue one. they're both blue! visionworks. see the difference. >>> conservatives have spent much of president joe biden's term single-mindedly beating the invasion drum. the idea that america is being slowly destroyed by migrant crossingstensified propaganda, but that was helped greatly by the fact that in recent years record numbers of folks were being apprehended by the immigration and customs enforcement at the border, people self presenting and seeking asylum. it really broke through at pardon least because there were so many folks at the border. if you are like me you may be wondering, where did we end up on that? what is going on with that? i don't feel like i have seen as much about the existential border threat in recent months. it is a fair question to ask. since the beginning of 2024 border apprehensions have dropped quite a bit. according to data from customs and border protection. 300,000 last september to almost half that number last month. numbers have declined every month since february to some of the lowest number since biden took office. as noted yesterday, may is typically a month when migrant crossings at the u.s. border spike. the remarkable lowell continues. data showed that border control apprehen

blue for the parking lane. that's that's when you add the two reds together and the two blues together, you see almost close to an equal distribution across the cross section for cars. and bicycles. okay, that that looks interesting, but that's that's just one slice. if you look back . and not enough room, apparently. but if maybe i can turn it this way. if you look back, one star equals four vehicles. so the big star on the upper right hand corner is four vehicles that are bicycles. the rest of those are approximately 170 vehicles, divided by four for the stars, meaning that's the comparative traffic that flows in a one hour, observe portion of cars and bicycles. so when we talk about equity, we need to understand what the starting point is, and the. parking turnover was mentioned on where we have 60 or so parking spots. please remember that they turn over about every two hours. so that's 60 spots every two hours all day and half the night with people coming and going. and so that's, that's a much bigger picture than, than is being presented to you. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker please. i believe this. hi. my name is robin. pam and i'm here today representing both kidsafe san francisco and neighbors for slow hearst. i live in sunnyside, the neighborhood adjacent to city college, and frida kahlo is my bike route to ocean avenue and points south. neighbors for slow , hearst represents over 100 people in sunnyside who want safer, slower streets in our neighborhood. we all came together around the slow street, and we also support better bike connections from sunnyside to other parts of the city, including on frida kahlo and to the glen park bart. most of my friends in this group and neighbors couldn't take time off work today to be here, even though they've sent letters and they've met with city college stakeholders, and they've met with our supervisor multiple times about the project, a kidsafe we believe that every street should be safe enough for kids to walk and bike to school, to the park, their daily destination. right now, frida kahlo is not safe enough for kids to bike. last week, my son's school in sunnyside had a bike to school day. his best friends family biked from ingleside over to our neighborhood and they remarked on how treacherous the connections felt with their elementary school kids on bicycles. there's no way they would let their kids bike to school today. on a normal day, with the current conditions on frida kahlo, projects like frida kahlo are about taking preventive measures to make our streets safe before someone gets hurt. sfmta's should be commended for being proactive here and not waiting for a serious injury or death to implement this best practice street design on an important connection in our bike network. i hope that we can find real solutions for the city college students who are asking for better transportation alternatives, getting them enrolled in the bay pass program would be a great start. lee avenue also should be a bike route, but that street actually doesn't exist right now as a real street. so in the meantime, we should do this project on frida kahlo building this bike lane may also encourage some students to try biking or scootering and slowly reduce the demand for parking. as our neighborhood welcomes more residents in the coming years. whatever we do, delaying the project is not the answer. let's not wait for someone to die or get hurt before we redesign the street to be safe. thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, directors. my name is rachel clyde. i'm the west side community organizer for the san francisco bicycle coalition. we are here in support of the frida calloway quick build project, and we are also in support of ccsf students receiving every possible option for sustainable and affordable transportation. students are the future of our city and they are the reason that we work towards transportation and climate goals . the frida calloway quick build is one of several projects happening in the southwest corner of san francisco that will transform an overlooked and transit poor part of our city into a connected and safe neighborhood. we cannot overstate the need for connectivity in our city, for active transportation, for everyone who uses our streets. we need to have protected bike infrastructure on frida calloway and citywide for students who are already biking and those who would like to bike if street conditions were safer. we need to offer free muni for students who want to take public transit, but find the cost prohibitive. these solutions together and more, will take the pressure off private cars being the only realistic way to get to campus. for many students, and can free up car space for those who really need it. thank you to the sfmta staff, especially casey hildreth and elliot goodrich, for making themselves available to so much feedback and working so hard on this project. thank you to ccsf students for long speaking up for their transportation needs. we hear you. the san francisco bicycle coalition urges the board to vote to approve the quick build today, and to continue working on programs and policies to support affordable and accessible transportation for low income students at ccsf and across the city. thank you, thank you. next speaker, please. thank you. board, i'm matt boschetto. i'm a west side resident and small business owner, i think it's first, just look at where we do have agreement. i don't think anybody disagrees with making the streets safer, having better transit, dedicated and protected bike lanes, i did think it was quite insightful that we spoke about the projects as not mutually exclusive with the other projects in the district and in the area, including the changes to ocean avenue. and while i do think the mta sometimes looks at their changes as mutually exclusive, a city is not. and there are different dynamics that are at play when changes are made. and if i think if you look at taraval and valencia street and what has happened there, we should consider the fears of ccsf merchants on ocean as real. and i think when you also look at the $1 million that was given to the merchants on taraval, the call yesterday by the merchants on the valencia corridor to, to reverse the changes made there. and now with the new process that was implemented at west portal with the committee to find a better solution and a better process there, i think we should do that here, not just for free to call it, but also for ocean as well. look at how these changes can actually impact the neighborhood negatively as well as as positively. and consider all thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello again, commissioners, so yeah, i don't go to a lot of these hearings, but, the ones i have been to, most of the comments are either for or against today. it sounds like it's against the proposed changes, so i would assume you would take that into consideration as part of the city's vision. the gentleman who spoke earlier said they did do the public outreach and they discussed it with the stakeholders, mr. fred marlenheim, he gave a very thoughtful and logical alternative by using lee avenue. so i would just i'm just curious, will this be taken into consideration and if not, why, and where is the data to support that? using frida kahlo way would make it any more safe. has there been anything in the past similar that's been done which has proven to be safer? again, we're not against it. we just want more data and we want to be able to, convince the residents that took time out of their day to be here today, that this will, in fact, make their neighborhoods safer. thank you very much. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello again. good afternoon. my name is leanna louie and i'm a resident of d 11, which is actually very close to city city college. and i've been there a few times the last couple of weeks, and i found that parking for me is difficult, and one of the reasons why i drive is because i have a full time job, and i still have other duties that i have to do. i'm also a us army veteran, so i have discovered that there is a veterans services that i might be using regularly. but one of the most important things to me is that we've heard from quite a few people here who represents many people, such as jeff nguyen. and she had talked about her representation of the student body, mr. fred morheim, representing heat, stephen martin pinto and d11, i'm sorry, d7, elisa gutierrez, lisa gutierrez guzman, mr. michael adams and mr. boschetto and lefteris, they have all voiced some very important concerns. i think that at the least you should delay this vote. vote? i don't think this is necessary to rush into this quick build, because once you build and lay foundation, lay cement on the ground, it takes a long time to make any changes. so before we make any changes on the ground, it's important that we do further study. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. good afternoon, directors. i just want to my name is merrily hearn. i am part of heat. i'm a retired teacher like lisa. i'm a lifelong learner and i have been working very hard with our group to make sure that we are representing everybody's concerns and that the whatever comes out of this meeting is in the interest of all the parties. now, you've heard different information today, probably some new i know that patricia eric from the mayor's office and in charge of the disability commission there, has written a letter and has her own concerns about it. you've heard that the students at city college have are very concerned and wrote a resolution, as did the board of trustees. so i think being an intelligent body and representing all of us, you would look at these particular concerns and sit down again and hear them and discuss them. and i really like the idea of involving more people. when it was reported that there were several meetings, i, i would ask how many and were they really recorded and what is the data from. and i think one of the problems that kind of was, talked about earlier is the fact that of not it's the process. yes. it's not a personal thing. it's not you as individuals, we have respect for you as individuals. it's the process. so i think we really need to look at that. thank you, thank you, thank you for your comment. are there additional speakers on item 11, the frida kahlo way? good afternoon. board my name is mikhaela godwin. i'm a long term resident of the of my district. i'm also a lifelong learner and a retired registered nurse. and i have grave concerns about the proposal as stated. for one thing, it is the quick build process represents an authoritarian approach and it is not, amenable to students. it it is a privilege and also not not taking into account i can give an example of a, a nursing student who went from elvian to our rn program, and she would go at 4 a.m. to be on frida kahlo way to wait for parking to make sure that she did not have to deal with the added stressor of not having adequate or being able to find parking and get to her classes in time. with that determined approach, she was able to graduate and is now working successful as an rn. this is a african-american woman who had to do a lot, and parking was a major challenge. even at 4 a.m. in the morning. we do not appreciate that there is bullying associated with with the way this quick board, quick, solution is not a quick solution. it will just add to the misery of students and the community in general. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker please, please, no disruptions, no clapping. thank you. hi, board members luke bornheimer, i urge you to approve the frida kahlo quick build project as proposed today, while directing staff to make this bikeway fully protected by concrete or steel, rather than only separated by plastic straws as currently proposed for parts of the proposal, convert the sections with proposed mixing zones and paint only bike lanes and so-called sharrows to properly protected bikeways, and widen the two way bikeway by reducing the buffer area to three feet, as well as directing staff to work on protected bike lanes on ocean avenue, geneva avenue, circular to monterey boulevard and alemany boulevard, in order to create a connected network of protected bike lanes throughout our city, which will help people shift trips away from cars, reducing car traffic, demand for parking, roadway fatalities, and injuries, noise, air pollution, and climate emissions. i want to thank supervisor melgar and her aide, emma heiken, for their work and support for this project that will make frida kahlo way and the surrounding area safer for all people, including car drivers, while helping people shift trips away from cars to bikes, scooters and public transportation, which will decrease car traffic demand for parking, noise and air pollution and help our city take climate action more broadly. i think it's worth noting that the frida kahlo quick build project started in spring 2023 with a planned implementation of fall slash winter 2003 under. fortunately, the implementation was pushed back to summer 2024, in an attempt to appease or capitulate to a small collection of people opposed to the improvements. despite our roadway safety crisis and the climate crisis that would be addressed by helping people shift trips away from cars, notably through the creation of a connected network of protected bike lanes. if we continue to let a collection of a small collection of people opposed to improvements delay, obstruct and water down projects, we will never address our roadway safety crisis and climate crisis. i urge you to propose and approve agency policy that will ensure projects like this aren't delayed, obstructed and watered down going forward. thank you. thank you. are there any further speakers on item 11? my name is harry bernstein. i'm an instructor at city college of san francisco. i'm one of the people. guilty. what? he just charged, so city college is not currently eligible for the bay path student transit program. i just want to reinforce that, mr. tumlin advocated that. he said it was a great idea. muni is now going to provide that. but there's a lot of money in this project just so we'll get to that, i've spoken to many seniors, who won't come to ocean avenue because it's too long. it takes too long. the transit is not what it should be. and this project is not adding any transit, so i'd like to go a little bit into the background of the project, vision zero, as you know, was established in 2014 to eliminate traffic fatalities and coalition collisions over the next ten years, quick build projects began with a similar focus. you know, it's under the vision zero, so in december 2021, the ingleside light reported that $266,000 was to go to the frida kahlo ocean. geneva intersection, which the vision zero program identified then as a high injury corridor. thus, the project was addressing a real safety issue to remediate a serious traffic problem at a dangerous intersection, but then in 2023, but by 2023, this had morphed to a much more like the other, quick build projects. and there was a budget of 200, and i'm sorry, they asked for 600 more thousand dollars. so we're talking about close to a million for this project, also, mr. hildreth, who's one of the other , presenters, said that, reducing space for cars is the point of this. that's your time expanding the bicycle lanes and bike network and limiting cars. are there any additional speakers on item 11? is there any accommodation requests? yes there are. okay first speaker, you've been unmuted. speaker. you've been unmuted. can you hear can you hear me? yes. go ahead. hello yes. go ahead. this is patricia. eric. i spent 25 years teaching at city college, and i'm a member of the mayor's disability council. please do not approve this outrageous quick, build the harm done to the low income and disabled students at ccsf greatly outweighs any benefit for the very small percentage of residents who will use this bike lane. you received a letter from the mayor's disability council stating its disapproval of this project. as a member of the council, it is clear that this project will remove critical parking close to campus for disabled students, so they will have to struggle walking from several blocks away. disabled students can't ride a bike or take the bus. they need bluene parking close to campus. i taught english to immigrants for 25 years. these wonderful, hardworking students struggle to fit english classes into their work schedules and family responsibilities. they do not have time to take the bus or bike to class. the bike coalition lobby, which gets millions of tax mayor money from sfmta, wants to give students a free pass on the bus that does nothing to solve the problem. ccsf has been a beloved institution that has changed lives since 1935. this project is a knife in the heart of this great college that gives hope and purpose to disabled and hard working, lower income students. the sfmta bike coalition anti-car and anti parking agenda has been systematically harming businesses, disabled and people who need to drive for the benefit of a very small percentage of people who ride bikes. now they're going after city college. please find another route for the bike lane that doesn't harm students at ccsf. thank you for your time. thank you. next spea