the parks alliant lent its strong support and urges you to approve this eir. in short, let's play some soccer. >> i am a former u.s. olympic coach. i am a soccer parent. i would like to echo the comments of many of the others about the social and health benefits of soccer. i have seen it over the years and it is astonishing. i would also like to reiterate the transformation that has occurred at crocker from a long series of grassy ruts to what has become a people's park in terms of its constant and positive views. i would like to say that the park itself is an artificial construct in its natural state, it is sand dunes. we made the park to serve the needs of the city. as i think the speakers have shown tonight, the needs of the city are for soccer fields. finally, i am a city kid myself and my daughter is a city kid. she wanted to go to practice and i told her, the boss is right -- the bus is down there. beach chalet is one of the easiest places to get to. it is a part of our overall -- i think that is a significant factor. i think the commissioners for their

chances are the methodologists would be very similar and lead to less diversity of opinions and more alliant ratings across the competition, which i think would be negative for investors, because it would reduce the information available to them. it could also potentially slow down the methodological adjustments to new realities. the methodology is not something that's cast in stone. that is under sort of annual revision at least. sometimes as the case may be, a short notice if the situation changes. if you have sort of a, an approval process, you have to go through, these changes which may be warranted from the analytical point of view may take longer to take and, therefore, reduce the quality of the ratings. it may furthermore, lastly, and i stop after this, it may increase another risk that some -- some politicians are worried about, the overreliance on ratings. if you are an investors and the proved methodology you might think, well, that should be all right and actually reduce the analytical effort rather than increase it, which i understand is the intention of the european policymaker.

there's still a lot of work to be done forging the architecture of the international arrangement and alliants that can do that. >> do you see a difference in what mitt romney would do on those issues? >> i do worry emphasize the point you can't judge from campaign rhetoric. it does worry me the phrase asia doesn't come up in his vocabulary except when he is in china. talk about american allies he appears not to notice japan or south korea or american allies. there is a cast back to a trans-atlantic u.s. and europe picture of the world that i think is outdated. clearly the case that obama's life story and picture of the world is better suited to a century in which asia is important and a cast of characters is changing. obama is hard to navigate. not an easy issue. >> i want to open up to the audience. there's a microphone somewhere. there it is in the back. if you could identify yourselves and speak clearly into the microphone we have lots of recording going on so please be aware of that. question up here in the front. 01 thing i ask is we want to keep his focus on the presidential election. t

alliant. the answers that mitt romney, vague specifics, shall we call them.bama care, fossil fuels which is to say oil reducing the deficit. are those going to create jobs? is this a plan? is this a plan we've been waiting for from team romney. >> no, at least i don't think it's much of a plan but it is what he's for. you know, a promise i'm going to cut unemployment to 6%, two things about that. one, no matter who's elected, i bet you unemployment is at 6% in four years and, in fact, i was talking a few weeks back to somebody in the obama administration who does economics who said, one of the terrible things about losing this election is we'll be upon a pretty good trajectory eventually and i hate to see other guys get credit for it. the other thing about a promise like that, if it doesn't happen, he's going to be accountable for it four years from now. if it works, he'll be president and he doesn't care. you might as well throw out that 6% because it sounds a lot better than 8%. >> i believe the cbo has put out numbers saying we're supposed to be about 5.9%