supervisor cowen knows this because she works on it everyday in her district. if we can't mend that structure we should end it arrest that have despite what we've said residents who keep your which i think so ups and strategies that are already making a difference if we make the com time arrest we have all people into one thriving community. the financial mold is integrated as well private investment and local money. no more poster housing that traps generation after generation racially in isolated complexes. there is nothing san francisco about that and we should not tolerate it. what holds us up today, we completely are rebuilding our community. we're going back to the hunter community. it's time to reenvision housing to the lowest self-confidence. for weeks now i've been active with hudson on how to get off the treadmill off the backlogs that won't get fullly funded. last year, i meet with others who said they are commented to us having new housing. so effective immediately i've asked the director of housing authority to develop a set of recommendations to h

let's bring in cnn legal contributor powell cowen. how much will the reversal potentially make? >> supreme court justices would tell you they're immune from politicians lobbying them. they're appointed for life by the president, and the founding fathers frankly set up the system so you would have sort of an independent judiciary. i don't think bill clinton's position will have a major impact on the court. >> so what the constitutional argument that will be made to keep doma in place? >> well, there are two cases before the court this week. one on tuesday and one on wednesday. the first on tuesday is called the prop 8 case. california case, and it's very interesting because the california supreme court said gay marriage is legal. they said it's against the california constitution to ban it. and then lawyers came in and voters went out and they adopted prop 8, which amended the california constitution to make it illegal. so they stuck it to the judges and said, we don't care what you say. we say it's illegal. now, enter the lawyers. they file a federal lawsuit in which they say th

then the dollar's going to crash against oil so the bubble is our cereal bubbles are popping but cowens leading the way it's showing what can happen. it's like a fake currency like the dollar you put up against in real terms like detroit and now this is the beginning of the end for the bernanke use of the world who have been out there just talking talking talking nonsense they're on the way out yet only in this sort of ben bernanke the keynesian sort of freak do we see where they say it's better for consumers that your house prices are rising that it's more expensive to buy a house that it's more expensive to buy shares warren buffett the richest man in the world the richest man in america as well he said that what he's been quoted in the past saying why would i want to buy shares when they're high why would you want to buy expensive shares when you buy them when they're not and here they're trying to tell no one lavish consumers whose income who savings by the way has dropped to two point four percent down from six point four percent in december straight this time of year because of th

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claudia cowen in san francisco with the story. >> reporter: the national postal forum here underway andbout shipping and direct mail. with a golf tournament, dance and fancy dinners on the schedule there will be plenty of fun for the 4,000 attendees including 400 staffers with the u.s. postal service a government agency spending big dollars to be here despite being $16 billion in debt. documents show the travel, $220,000 in exhibit space and other incidentals will cost the postal service $2.2 million. attendees including the post master general will enjoy live music and a bank wet featuring the foods of fisherman's wharf and chinatown. the post office says the four day conference will make money by generating new sales leads for shippers and direct mail firms but critics don't buy it and suggest postal executives are out of touch. >> they are tone deaf to the actual reality on the ground and how this will be perceived and that is something that our executives whether in the regular federal government or the postal servicester to take note of that the public is watching and they are turn