. -- we have bob beck at the request of the board of the last meeting. jobs are important to the economic well-being of the country. there is an amount of discussion surrounding what we need to do to increase the jobs, and this project alone, just in phase one [no audio] direct and indirect, tremendous impetus to our economy, and on that, i'm going to have bob report. >> thank you. when the mtc was working with the tjpa, caltrain, and the high speed rail authority on developing the investment strategy for the bay area application under our -- arra, we wanted to find a common methodology or basis for estimating job projections. what the mtc and agencies agreed upon was to use a recently published publication on job forecasts for capital investment. it is entitled "job impact of spending on public education day-to-day in 2009. in that study, they projected an average of 30,000 jobs created per billion dollars worth of investment in public transit. that number of jobs ranged from a low of 20,000 jobs per billion dollar investment to 41,000 jobs per billion

on there, sparky, you're going to insult beck and limbaugh, i'm afraid i'm going to have to ask you to step outside. our winner, the new chief executive of bp, bob dudley. dudley and transocean and halliburton now claim the plaintiffs in the 400 or so lawsuits filed thus far can't sue them yet. bp's court filings say the fishermen, seafood processor, hotel owners, oysterers and the like must first apply to the official bp fund. they must play that bureaucratic red tape before they sue. even the lawyers for those suing are suggesting the courts wait until next march to decide which cases to pursue and which not to. that's moving too fast for bp. now we know why they agreed to the $20 billion fund because it buys them time for them to forget, for the oil to dissipate, to lose internal messages and text messages and other evidence of their culpability. and most importantly, time for their victims to run out of money to run out of money. today's worst person in the world. >>> the twitter account of john kerry may have expressed the new conventional thinking tonight. della wow! tea party jumps the shark. great for chris koobz, real public servant. th