will report shortly released a report entitled surcharges and health in san francisco healthy for bhom, the report details how 18 restaurants profited to the tune of over a million dollars by essentially in our view exploiting the good will of san francisco restaurant patrons, consumers who had been willing to chip in and pay more when they go to restaurants so workers can be covered and provided with health care. the report found that a loophole also exists, that it's essentially creating a big problem for workers that continue to go uninsured here in san francisco. on august 23, 2012 just recently, the office of labor standards and enforcement released an additional report that analyzes the -- what happened in 2011 with respect to this issue, and the report as you will hear from the office of labor standards and enforcement is a very troubling report. it shows similar to the prior year in 2011, only 11 million of the 66 million dollars that were set aside for health care under reimbursement, under hrh, only 11 of 66 million was actually reimbursed to employees for medical expenses, t

is there a short term solution to what is now long term pain for the american people 2 million of bhom remain under employed or up employed. >> the short term solution is electing a new president. lou: say we do that -- >> yes. lou: what happens? >> them people are policy. we have to count on the clarity of mind of president obama to choose cabinet officers as well as bring with him enough congressman and senators to reorient the entire amerin economic policy. it's budgetary policies and monetary policies. >> okay. lou: we've got a lot to talk about it. we'll continue that in the next sit down, if you will, but it seems to me it's important that if governor romney is in an interesting position, at least in economics, finds himself in the unique position having the same disadvantages of senator mccain, and governor romney is still running against george w. bush with economic policies. >> yes, but that was -- that's been true in the past, and many presidential changes -- for example, think about president reagan, he was running against the catastrophic effects of nixon's wage on price co

recognition that this isn't a check we write every year willie nilly to you rightly say the go toward bhomthe pendulum swung this time. because that's exactly what we have done. >> on egypt because we're in violent agreement in terms of the strategic objective there. it's not about the strategic objective. it's how you actually do this. and cash flow financing in expwript for military assistance, this is one of the things that you talk our senior commander in the military who need patter ins in dealing with threats like we see in sinai and israel needs the partners. it is less complicated for them to use cash flow finance system the system where the money comes a year in advance. it gets tie up in defense contractors. it's essential to revise that system to say okay we're going use the leverage. we're not going to be tied endlessly to these ways of dispersing aid. we can't actually use it as a tool to produce change. i don't think there's much dispute about the broader strategic objective. i don't have it. the bigger threat going back earlier in the political and policy debate are voices l