what do you do then? >> if i may, commissioner, generally, what the department has done is deal with the exigent circumstances to make the building more stable, to deal with the issue but not necessarily restore the whole system. when you get into a boiler system, you may have other issues -- commissioner walker: space heaters, something like that? >> in instances where there was a single source, we may have had an elderly individual or confirmed individual, we have access, and there was sufficient money to stabilize the situation. but when you are dealing with several large building systems, it becomes a much more complicated situation. even when the department had $20 million in its operating fund, they were apprehensive to do that. once you start making the repairs, you inherit the liability and access that goes along with that. it is one thing to barricade a building. it cost about 18 dozen dollars just to have the bureau of rebuilding repair come in, the police was there, the city attorney involved.

i do not want to say, do not do this. to live instead. -- do that instead. when we see the numbers of the money and how we are spending it, it brings of the questions we should be discussing at other times of the year, and i hope we will do that, and i agree philosophically that we are fortunate in that we have fairly large amount of money comes from a former desegregation, and not all districts have thought, so we have a more significant portion of here three money that we could use but do not want to, because that is how we focus on our issues of low achievement, etc., so i am glad we are not looking at all of our dollars or what we used to be related to the authority and access rules us something we should use everywhere, because i do not think we should. i think we have a lot of agreement that we want to use whatever resources are available to focus on equity issues. what i am more interested in doing, even though it is a smaller amount of money, some time as we prepare for this action in the coming year is to say, tell me why we chose certain things to

to do that. five are with us but we begin by being able to know what we are spending -- i would ask we begin by being able to know what we are spending. all you can do is look in the special education budget, were you see a huge number of teachers. that is it. you do not know what schools they are in. >> what i would like to see is actually a special education budget include all costs, so for the extended school year, we are mandated to do about, and the district pays for a portion of it, too, but we must provide the schools, and we do use some of them for recovery, but it is first generated because of our legal commitment to extend the school year and make sure those budgets are in place so we can see how much money does it cost to run special education in this district, and i also want to say we knew those were temporary, so this is the kind of thing that frightens me. we knew it was temporary, yet we have no plans about how we were going to fill the gap. it would be easy to go there and keep s

to do. >> what i said it said it is in favor of the approach taken by the republican budget. the approach is to cut medicare which we could do by a majority vote and protect these corporate tax loopholes. this now says you have to have two thirds to get rid of one of them. [inaudible] >> we were talking about these corporate tax loopholes, mr. chair. again, you're talking about picking winners and losers through the tax code. when you have a subsidy that will make any economic difference whether it is on the expenditure or receipt side, i do not see that it does. if you want to subsidize something, there is a government priority do it. you do it through a tax subsidy or an expenditure subsidy. they are economically the same. why can we not discuss bringing them both back under the same breath? they are the same sort of thing. we're talking about stopping the government from picking winners and losers in the private sector. the government should not be saying if you do this one thing, you get

what we need to do is do our jobs, and we have to do it the same way a family would do it. if a family gets overextended and their credit card is too high, they do not just stop paying their bills. what they do is, they say, how we start cutting our monthly cost? we keep making our payments but we start cutting out the things that are not necessary, and we do it in a way that maintains our credit rating, a way that is responsible. we do not stop sending our kids to college. we do not stop fixing the boiler or the roof that is leaking. we do things in a sensible, responsible way. we can do the same thing when it comes to the federal budget. >> if you end up going to this middle-of-the-road package you referred to as the second option, would that have to have some sort of the stimulus -- >> i think both would be good for the economy. a payroll tax cut is something that has put $1,000 in the pocket of the typical american family over the of last six or seven months, and it has helped offset some of the rising costs in gasoline and food. i think that american consumers and amer

>> i should know how to do it, but i do not. i was on a show with a series seinfeld, my best friend, and i've not -- with a series seinfeld, my best friend, and i put it on facebook now, so it is everywhere. this is going to be 1 million hits after i leave tonight. this is pbs. i talk about it every night. it has gotten everyone in trouble. arnold schwarzenegger, we thought he was the terminator. he turned out to be the inseminator. he said, i will be back. i do not think so. we have clinton, lawrence taylor. you go down the line. the man in iowa. the men in the bathroom. lawrence craig. tavis: since you are on stage almost every night, when you have time to write material? >> i do not have to write. i just watched television. all you have to do is what set. it is right there. anthony casey, she is mad as hell. she is not happy unless someone has been kidnapped and killed. someone is going to kidnap her and stuff like that. i am talking about these the phone and who need to be in jail. the lady on "the deal." she is going to go

we do not expect what you do not inspect. and if you don't put into place policies that encourage -- i am not saying being a whistle- blower, but encourage proper at 6, and i think -- proper ethics, and i think greg suhr stated very properly its starts in the police academy. u.s. no other position probably in the united states -- certainly not for some of our elected officials. yet no one who gets more scrutiny and more background checks and psychological checks and an 18-month probationary period. we as law-enforcement administrators hope that those kinds of people who do not meet on moral and ethical standard, we hope they do not pass or get through. sometimes they do. i find it interesting that this is the -- it has been 20 years, 15 months, and two days since the rodney king incident in los angeles. when i watch that incident. -- when i watched that incident, it gave me shivers. what bothered me -- it was not only the people hitting rodney king -- but it was the other 19, 20 officers who stood around and did nothing. and

when you show up and y really do want to be, you really do want to know what's going on, you really dohow to be involved and when you actuallyave a point o view and experience to back that point of view up, people ge a little nervous. if they don't trust yet that you're a team player. it takes a while f that t go away. >> charlie: because they project on to anybody the worst instinct which is is this something with vanity who wants to see their name as a producer or somebody who doesn't want to pay attention. >>he really doesn't know what she's talking about. and that can be a little bit in the air from people who haven't had the opportuni who are not really close to the working environment. but i think that went away pretty quickly, fortunately for me. and so i'm part of a great group of people for sony and at show time and our team onset. and i have a choice in who is cast and what is goingon and a little bit in story although i tend to leave the writers. i certainly pitch ideas to them or will voice something that i feel is, would be something i would like to see the show tackle or

before you start, what do you do? stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gathering facts. you want to assess the type of damage there is. what kind of situation is it? what is the issue? is it a medical problem? if it's a medical, is it a big hurt or a little hurt? is it a rescue situation and if it's a fire, do you have the resources to control or extinguish that fire? how about your situation, do you have all your people? do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources

if i physically can't do something when we show you how to do search and rescue, don't do it and make sure everybody else knows what you can and cannot do. that's very, very important. know where your emergency exits are and what your signals are. examine the exterior of a house. you want to know who's missing. if anybody is missing, does anybody live in the house? structural damage of the house, again, you want to know what you're walking into. potential hazards, glass, water, anything broken glass. we mentioned some of that earlier. know your exit and entry points, know where the utility shut offs are if you have to turn them off. you don't have to turn them off all the time, only if you have to. any unique characteristics. does this house have a lot of glass, is it built on a hill side, is it built on stilts? before you enter, you are going to make a marking, make a slash near the front entry so everybody knows that you've gone inside. there's two things that are going to alert people that you have gone inside to do a search. one is a slash and the other is the other team outside.

if you do not want to do that, do not vote. host: thank you for the plug for c-span.org.nald, next on the democratic line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to talk about the gop's stance on this debt ceiling. i think that the president should call their bluff. this is the obama reagan moment. when reagan said no to the kremlin, that is when he became a force to be reckoned with with the congress. this is obama's moment. he should tell republicans that if you want to not raise the debt ceilings, you want to thank wall street and take away the worth of the money, corporations, and banks, who had been worrying, making treasury bonds and worth of the same as junk, so be it. i would say that he should insist that they do not raise the debt ceiling and say that this is who you want representing you. you deserve each other. this is something that the gop has been playing with for three years now. saying no to anything obama. and i think it should stop. i think this is the time to make a stand. host: is this an air traffic controller moment? guest: it

what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let us know if you have a small business in there that we can patronize. thank you. -- in that area that we can patronize. >> i have a company here in san francisco. like all small businesses, working for the city of san francisco is difficult. cash flow is a problem. invoices' get paid anywhere from 60 to 120 days. being cash for, i do not know how that would help me qualify for a loan, but it is a problem. so my question is, where do you go, i

we have to do this. why don't we take what we're doing and expand what we're doing? my next question. what do you plan to do about the accessibility? what can we? >> ultimately. the more and more youth don't have the ability to either call themselves get a job. graduate high school. you got more insecurity with their personal selves. of course. they have already grown up with issues in their family. the ultimate i think is. we have one part to play. we can't play all the parts. as long as we all come together. we can do the big work itself. the ultimate thing is that us coming together is really going to show the difference with the youth we're working. we are able to get the guns off the street. they will be back. not by the choice the youth. >> i would also like to say, mayor newsom has tried to take the approach to enact legislation to out law gun shows. minimize the availability of folks to purchase now firemans. we are limited by state and federal law. when we look at what we can do as a city, we are bound by the state and federal law. we have taken creative app

they do not. if you look at the numbers, the latest numbers or even look at the report on stateofthemedia.org, you will see that well over 60% of americans will cite television as their primary source of news. also, more and more americans are spending more time in transit, so they are either in their cars or on public transportation, so they are listening. the role of radio cannot be discounted either. but again, there have been many ways to try to attract young readers. more recently, have you seen the vice guides to everything? it is a cross between ntt -- mtv's "jackass" and "60 minutes," targeted at an 18 to 25 demographic, which a lot of people in this industry are trying to reach. there are a lot of things out there in terms of investigative journalism that are trying to target younger people that are very creative, but just going back to your point about not reading or getting your news online, people are very lazy, you know? a lot of us do not even want to read, do not have time to read.

how are those interns doing back there, are they doing all right? >> for the last six years, there's been a lot of criticism of your experience and your credentials. can you talk a little bit about, you know, what are the competencies needed to lead an agency like fema? you don't have the same kind of experience, but every one of those leaders has come from a different place, and how did you kind of leverage your life experience to do that job? >> let me ask you, was i qualified? [laughter] right answer. good answer. i think the most important thing for a president to look at in any kind of a position, unless you're going to be head of the nuclear regulatory commission or head up the missile defense agency or something, is to be able to do two things; instill in the people who work for you that you will take them to a level of excellence where they can achieve what they want to achieve in their particular area. you have to have a sense of organizational management and understand the interplay between the political leadership and the civil service le

you do not really get to do that when you run citywide. i enjoyed campaigning more because i had time to meet voters individually, and i loved it. i really enjoyed being out on the field. i spent all lot of time doing it. which i thought was important -- both for me because i get a deeper understanding of what people care about, and what people loved about the district and the city, and i think it was better for our community that i was out there one on one. >> what are the biggest issues for san francisco right now? supervisor kim: economic development. that is the biggest issue for san francisco and the country. our economy is not in the best place that it could be. we really do see that people want to see more jobs for everybody. second, it is probably a myriad of issues. for our district, and think public safety issues -- ranging from low-level crime to larger public safety issues. we held our first hearing on pedestrian public safety in district 6. we learned that san francisco has the highest rate of vehicle pedestrian collisions in

do you pop your thumb to do it? >> it just depends. i mean. >> so you're telling me if i put those handcuffs on you, you can get out of them? >> if i don't like what's going on, of course, i'm going to do it. you know what i'm saying? i mean, if i feel like i'm in a bad situation and if i have to go through you to save my own ass, then so be it, that's what i'm going to do, you know? sometimes i don't have a choice. >> i'm just asking you for training purposes with this new officer, would you be willing to show us how you do it? no? >> all right. christopher, talk about ow your hair. what happened? >> it was long enough so i could cut it off. so i could send it out. >> to? >> locks of love, to the kids who have cancer. you have to wait till you have ten inches. once it grew, i cut it off. >> why though? >> why? why did i do it? i don't know. it's something to do. i mean -- i don't know how you put it. karma. you do bad, you've got to do something good to [ bleep ] level it out. i mean that's the way i see it. >> go ahead and restrain h

do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all want -- or ceo's, they all want a quality city. my job is to make sure they trust government, so that when we say something, we do it. what i do not like it, and past relationships with the government, they could not do what they said. that is where the mistrust comes out. that is why i am going around talking to every community possible. if i can take care of it, i will tell them. if i cannot, i will te

we need to get legislation to do it. if you can do it, you have to direct them to do this. these are health and safety issues. these are not issues of [inaudible] this is health and safety. i aske you, how many days which you like to go without heat, when during that time the high temperature was 54 degrees? i am asking the commission. what is a reasonable time to repair no heat, or no hot water or electricity? commissioner lee: why don't we do this. this topic seems to -- why don't you have a seat and sit in on the next item and see what is being discussed. how we handle the notice of violations. >>item 5. update on dbi's notice of violation (nov) procedures, including follow up. is there any additional public comment on item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item five. >> good morning, commissioners. ed sweeney. director of inspection services. i will give you a brief overview of the complaints, what generally happens to them. if i can get it up on the screen. all the complaints, of course, start as a complaint. they can be landlord-tenant, such as t

we do have -- they do have internal problems done they?they do the -- even if they were able to reach the grand bargain that now seeps impossible it is not clear they would be able to sell it to their members because of these internal divisions. >> greta: it is interesting. there are tea party members in the house and senate, whereas the far left are more outside and they are e-mailing and they've got campaigns, they are not inside as much. >> there are some of them too. keep in mind, in the senate, harry reid would not get all the democrats onboard for his. in the house, there's a chance that there's a deal that is cut that president obama gets behind that a good number even most of the house democrats don't get behind many we could see strange bipartisan votes over these next days. i think you still got two sides speaking past each other. tonight you saw another example. >> greta: president obama has proposed a short term solution. his critics say it is totally political. let's assume it is totally political let's not give him the been f

by the way, how do you do it without ground troops?hs. >> but i'm asking what should you do? what would you do, no ground troops? >> not necessarily. >> well, what's the not necessarily? how would you do it? >> you can go the easy way or the hard way, but now you're going. he just got indicted by the international tribunal for the equivalent of war crimes. this is a man with american blood on his hands. he killed americans. he's a terrorist. this is a guy ronald reagan tried to kill in the 1980s. >> i'm asking you how. >> the united states of america has the ability to hunt down and bring to justice -- >> so, send in special forces, if necessary? >> if you wanted to, you could kill him with a cruise missile. if you wanted, you could bring in special forces and target him. the idea that we can't find and kill moammar gadhafi and bring him to justice is ridiculous. >> one more on afghanistan. defense secretary panetta said "i believe remembers we're in r strategically defeating al qaeda." do you believe that? >> well, he's got a lot of k

do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice

but philip how do you do that i mean. yes go ahead. one of the difficulties with the with the current marketing model is that most folks who are marketing christianity assume that the people in the pews are the market so we've got to sell the gospel to the people in the pews but if you look at the bible there was a purchase that's a marketing kind of thing that's quite different the purchase in christianity is that jesus christ purchased his people with his blood on the cross so we are to appeal to him he's the customer he's buying the people in a sense if you want to look at it like that not the people in the pews buying him he's buying the people and so we need to not appeal to the people in what they want we need to peel to the lord and what he wants. you want to jump in there i mean i mean they again i think we're all speaking in very ideal types because we all know that this is not happening and how the message of christ of the holy bible is being portrayed all over the place i mean when these even jail calls come over from the un

if we're going to do this, how do we do that? how do we work hard enough to make that happen? one of the things that does help us with is our nation stories. talk about abraham lincoln and his second inaugural address or when he gave the brandenburg gate speech and why words are important. talk about jfk in this statement of ask not what your country can do for you. what you can do for your country. ask, are we really doing what we should? i think the example, that is the hardest thing i do every day. i still every day, usually by lunch. sometimes a little later. it was three children did you understand what that means. they see everything you do. they see how you ask them to do things and how you react to people around you were to them. i think we all need to understand that everyone of us has incredible network and we can be a good example. how do we do this? to learn every day. i don't know if you learn every day. i try to learn most days. usually i try to learn from failing. i think one of the things we have to learn as a conservative movement is what resonates. we talk ab

what we need to do is to do our jobs and do it the same way a family would do it. if a family gets over extended and the credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills. what they do is they say how do we start cutting our monthly cost. we keep on making payments but start cutting out the things that aren't necessary. and we do it in a way that maintains the credit rating, we do it in a way that's responsible. we don't stop sending our kids to college, we don't stop fixing the boiler or the roof that's leaking. we do things in a sensible and responsible way. we can do the same thing when it comes to the federal budget. >> within the $2 trillion ban, which i think referred to the second option, would that need to have some sort of stimlative measures either payroll or extension of insurance? >> i think both would be good for the economy. payroll tax cut is something that has put $1,000 in the pocket of the typical american family over the last six, seven months and has helped offset some of the rising costs in gasoline and food. and i think that ame

i do not think you can do it by just doing a few rallies in the state. if she decides to become a candidate, i think she needs to come here and spend a significant amount of time. it goes way back to 1980. ronald reagan lost to george h. w. bush in iowa because he and his family went to virtually every county and the man running reagan's campaign thought they could do it with one rally per congressional district. he would not return my phone calls. i was trying to tell him it was a bad strategy. of course, what they did was they went to new hampshire and did exactly what they should have done in iowa. that is when i knew that ronald reagan had not lost the touch. he knew what he was doing. they just blew it in iowa. >> i want to talk about the impact of ron paul in this race. for your years ago, he was seen by many as kind of the guy talking about issues that people necessarily were not focused on, but this time it seems the issue matrix points more towards him with the economy and the debt ceiling. what is his level of strength there? have you been able

you do understand that. you do these bigger movies to profile yourself, to have the right connections with the studios, for distribution. we can market a certain way even if we do not get the movie. we can market you. those are the reasons why you do bigger movies and movies with big stars in them. tavis: tell me about this game show. "it's worth what?" >> it is a show created by larry spencer. a show about people's fascination about how much stuff cost. i would bet her purse cost this and hearings. we get on the show and basically i will pull out a brand-new m bugati. what is more expensive, this or feeding an elephant for year? we have ancient artifacts from the early 1500's b.c. it is $50 million worth of stuff on the show and people are competing to win $1 million to see if they know what is more expensive and why it costs this much. >> i am impressed that a black man host a show where there is $50 million of stuff on the stage. >> i have people that can come and skipped this up. tavis: there is a rumor

how we are doing it. i enjoyed a lot of support, i think, not only internally from the government, but i think there are lot of people that agree with me. therefore, they believe that should automatically translate into my riding. there are two issues. -- running. i like that people are in joint what we are doing. it is much better than, you are a failure, get out of here. for me, the personal choice has debate with an understanding of why i came to do the job and under what circumstances. it is a personal choice that i had. i never wanted to be a politician had i been, i would have signaled that many years ago. so i am still of the position that i will not be running for this job. i know there will be a strong effort the next few weeks to convince me otherwise. we will let that play out, but that is where i am at. i never look at myself as a politician. >> [inaudible] >> i think it is more appropriate for me to focus on the things that i asked the voters to pay attention to. i have not really paid attent

this was high gothic stuff. >> physically, what do you do?piano and you get this idea. how do you come up with these songs? >> the "phantom," the phrase -- for example -- ♪ i thought as a dark rock song. wasn't specifically "the phantom of the opera". in fact, the phrase went da-da-da-da, i changed it in the end to da-da-da-da. you see? these things evolve. but it's quite funny because we're coming up to the 25th anniversary of "the phantom of the opera" and we're going to do a big concert in london to celebrate. i've been through the archive footage and everything and it's extraordinary how different how the first try out of the phantom was that we did to how it ended up on the stage. some of the songs were there, but then half of them sort of went. >> tell me about "evita". that was another hit, a huge success on broadway in london. we talked about how it didn't start. there's a great story "don't cry for me argentina." >> i was working on an extremely ill fated musical called "jeebs" which never saw the light of day. well, it did, unfortun

all the kids do is ride skateboards and do drugs.oked at him and said hey, stay off them skateboards. >> when we come back -- >> i wish i could have had a conversation with lebron james to say like, you know, what don't you understand about women? ♪ there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. >> it's got to get cleaned up. you almost need an angel. ♪ this is my hometown >> i want to talk to you about detroit. this is your heartland. it's become like new jersey is to bruce springsteen. why is it important to you? what does it mean to you? >> it's where i'm from. my family and my roots are there. i'm proud of where i come from at every level. i wish i had a better answer for you. that's the heart of it. >> when you sing about detroit, what is going through your mind? you sing with passion and eloquence about it. >> everything i have done in my career started in and around detroi

and why do you do that? why do you focus on the poorest parts of the community?when i ran for mayor, people said why should i put my money into that part of the town? not everybody said, but it say that. and i said, well, for two reasons. number one, you do it because it's the right thing to do morally because there are children that are growing up in this part of our community that you would not want to have your children grow up in that environment. you would not. that's not the children's fault. they're growing up in environments that they should not grow up in america or st. petersburg or anywhere, and we need to work toward a change in that. and some people would buy that. and i said there's a second reason, too, and the second reason is it's better for you. because if right now we are pouring a disproportionate amount of money to public safety and social services into this part of our community, and we're not getting tax revenues from it. so if we could flip it, we would have to put less services in the, more revenues out, so it would be better for you. so

do you think it ought to be raised? do you think congress is going to find a way to do it? >> well, i think they need to make some long-term structural changes. part of the benefit that each of the four of us are talking about is not just balancing our budget but doing it in a way that provides structural reform for generations to come. all too often in washington, they're thinking about the next election. we need to think about the next generation and not just the next election. in our case if they don't deal with this issue it will have a negative impact on the economy that will fall over into our states and cities. we've seen 26,000 new jobs in the first five months of this year. and we started to slow a little bit in may. kmifs said it was largely because of the fact that the federal government has been failing to act. it's been weighing down the successes that we've had in each of our respective jurisdictions. we need to have a federal government that works together. that gets the job done. i think if they fail to do something in response to this debt setting limit to

do what you can do. you know, just do what you can do. when i walk down the street in new york and atlanta, i see a piece of trash is picked trash is picked up carry it to the nearest wastebasket. i can't recall, but if we have enough people picking up trash, more people pick it up throwing it down, will live in a clean word. that's what i'm looking for. [applause] >> as you know better than most another certain kind of trash you can't pick it. >> areas if you do with the big enough piece of equipment. >> i think that's a pretty good place to start. i would like to thank you very, very much for this evening. ralph nader. [cheers and applause]

, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do is work with small businesses to understand how to be ready for credit. a lot of that is helping folks that are interested in starting a business understand how to develop a business plan, how to get

do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all

when do we want it? >> now. >> what do we want? parent engagement. >> i am a parent and grandparent for a child in hillcrest. she said everything in the school system is about a conversation with parents about their children. how can the office of the school and family partnership accomplish this mission if they do not have the staffing need to make things like getting free and reduced lunch? things like calling parents when they are concerned about their children. many things like engaging parents to be part of the school council, and the development of balance school cultures, and supporting parents' voice. we ask you to double the budget so we can have the service we need to move forward to the promise of social justice. in all schools, for all children. thank you. >> what do we want? summer school. >> my name is macualy. i have the pleasure of being the campaign leader for a random number of parents and supporters throughout the school district. we have been here a lot over the last three years, four years, 30 years, whatever n

[cheering and applause] so what do we do, boss? >> the struggles of middle-class families were a big problem before the recession hit in 2007. they weren't created overnight, and the truth is our economic challenges are not going to be solved overnight. >> jon: but by monday... [laughter] monday? you got a plan? >> one of the most important and urgent things we can do for the economy is something that both parties are working on right now, and that's reducing our nation's deficit. >> jon: phew. well, thank god we know what to do, and that's not going to be too hard, right? >> we're going to have to tackle spending in the tax code to make it easier for entrepreneurs to patent a new product, rebuilding our transportation structure, eliminate waste, tackle entitlement, extend those middle-class tax cuts, help businesses create jobs. we got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon. [laughter] >> jon: what? of course, the first thing before we get to any of that stuff... [laughter and applause] that's why we get paid the cable