how could they do what they do when we can't do what we are supposed to do? how do you cut a poll grant? forgive me and allow me an indulgence. 75,000 americans got engineering degrees. 300,000 indians. six hundred thousand chinese people. they are doing what they are supposed to do. reggie bailey, were you mit? what are we supposed to do? what are we supposed to do? i am going to be quiet. >> let me follow up because it is the collective wisdom that it is president obama has offered what the new york times has called an overly generous package of cuts in social programs. what do we say about that? of course the republicans walked away once again. >> holy water. holy water. you know what? let's take our time and talk about the energy we have. i can fix these people. they are not fixable but here is what i want black people to understand. you know it from your ancestors story. no matter who we are or how we are we have triumphed even in the middle of nonsense. let's continue the energy of triumph. the reason i wrote surviving and thriving is because i wanted p

do you see of a form? -- do you have a form? >> it shows how much time they spent discussing and whether or not they made a referral, and with 300 pure supporters -- peer supporters, but for me, sitting in the car 10 hours with your partner, if you are venting about your divorce or your issue with your elderly parents that may be no, been not been taking it out on the street or not abusing verbally the public, so therefore, you have a place to do it with people who are trained to listen, and i think showing that there are that many contacts, people are utilizing peers over and over, so that tells me it works. they're in a locker room talking about whatever is going on before they hit the streets, and it is diffused, dissipating some of that stress, and that is one of the best ways to tell, other than keeping the statistics -- we do keep that in terms of how many officers are involved in incidents. some of what happened in the incident and what can we do better at the incident, whether or not we have done a follow-up debriefing,

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

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

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

do you have a comment? >> our designated representative who was supposed to be here this morning unexpectedly fell ill. i cannot present the status of the mou, but we can do so at the next meeting. commissioner walker: ok. the purpose here is to make sure we have a solid partnership and are working together. it is due to hear, -- good to hear, once we get a hold of a complaint we are working in a way that works with a housing authority. i just want to make sure our contractors are given the same courtesy in working with the housing authority on habitability issues. commissioner mar: it seems like when the complaints are issued, problems are getting resolved in a fairly timely manner. the other thing i was wondering, if there was a breakdown in more problems and complaints from specific projects? there are a lot of different housing projects. maybe some of them are older, others that are more problematic. do you have a break down about that? >> with respect to the fact that the housing authority has 6000 or

we do those things institutions always say they want to do. we want to get crazy and cross- disciplinary around the shop. let's sit on the floor. let's play foosball. but if you let people loose in an environment -- people will always give to a greater gift. it is just a principle. if a group get together to give a gift to an entire city, it is easy to find people who will give to that. and the consequence is, you can learn a lot. talk about a networking opportunity. but nobody ever went there to network. they went out there to give their energy, imagination, their heart to something. >> there is that collaboration, the cross-disciplinary thing that happens out there, but i also feel like there is a bit of a sense of competition. people are trying to outdo each other, try to outdo each other trt impressive thing. >> that is human nature. i read a few years ago somebody complaining, i remember the good old days. you could put up a pink flamingo in front of your tent and it was cool. now with all of these big projects, i feel few tile -- futile.

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.

not one has said do not do this. many have said, and thank god someone in washington is listening and paying attention. thank you for being a better partner. now a state for whatever reason says we do not care about achievement gaps or minority students, we will come after them like a ton of bricks. but that is not what we're seeing out there. people are asking for room to move, time to get the hard work done, and balancing that. i think in this waiver package we are moving to a much better place. for me, the best solution is for congress to reauthorize the law and fix it for the country. we hoped they would reauthorize before this point. congress is clearly struggling to do much together. i think there is anything folks can come together behind in a bipartisan way is education. that is how we of work from day one. i hope this package is a bridge or a transition to congress ultimately reauthorize in a common-sense fix for the country. if we were to do nothing. if we were to start another school year with a lot that m

i do not write content, i do not right product. i do news reporting. i do not write material to put ads around. there are some assumptions coming from this gathering that i find troubling. many years ago, upton sinclair wrote a classical study of journalism. he said that the advertising model does not work. clearly, it does work, but the main thing that is missing from what everyone has been talking about so far is the consumer. when i read long form of journalism, which i write, i print it out. when i mounted an investigation of the region's last year of california, i collected about $7,000 from individuals and parlayed it into six print journeys, seven weeklies. got a lot of national coverage. it made some difference in people's lives, but i did not take a dime from any corporation. ok? so let's talk about how we go back to the model where people who need investigation, news -- because my duty is not to reflect corporations. let us not be proud that we are moving forward because we do not have journalist unions anymore. that's going back to selling t

i love doing what i do.g four specials for bravo in one year. none of your guests ever will say that. none of your guests. it is never been done. four specials in one year. i'm on drop dead diva and excited about the emmy pomp and circumstance. do you go to the emmys, or are you too high and mighty. >> i went last year. it is a great sglent who's doing your dress. >> i haven't decide theed. >> oscar, care lena? >> i take it seriously. i'm proud to be in the company. i'm shocked i'm in that company and it never gets old. >> didn't i see you standing outside one of the preemmy parties? >> i bring my emmy. i'm the greeter at the david -- party i bring my emmys every year to this fancy a-list party called the night before. it is not appropriate. there's no press and i do it to see who has a sense of humor and i stand outside of the party. >> i know. >> holding my emmy and say to the celebrities, no matter how famouser that would you like a photo with a real emmy. half laugh and half go i don't know her. and half

you can do mountain bike tours, you can do horseback tours, you can do atv tours.he zip lines have been the biggest product we've expanded into. we now have two zip line courses. >> with all the new activities and a bunch of new accommodations, the adventures on the gorge was turned into a true all-inclusive destination. >> the future was a resort, the future was, you know, more lodging, restaurants, and a variety of scenarios. >> sometimes radical change needs to happen. it has made us much more profitable. it has made us a much stronger company. we've been able to reinvest in things. >> after three year, paul says he's incredibly proud of what they've been able to accomplish in both merging cultures and building out the company, but he says they're nowhere near done yet. one day he hopes that these three companies will truly be one. >> as time goes on, it will take more prominence and you'll see it being on top of the main brands. as time goes on, you'll see the flip flop go on. and some day that's our goal that adventures on the gorge will be the primary brand t

to do all of the things that you guys do as small businesses. certainly, we will encourage all of those folks to do that. if it is someone that falls into this category once, again, this is not hard. this is free. this is super simple. i am sure that we can work it out, if it is not a required field, depending on what you are and are not. you can see. cy, how about that thec -- ya, -- cya, how about that? mickey? there is no dumb question. >> [inaudible] >> that is a good question and i do not have a good answer. the fact is that this was the best that we could come up with to figure this process. sure, mickey mouse can sign up and make a big number. we are hopeful that every one, being irresponsible, that that will happen very little, if not ever. it is not a pair of five list and let's do it. debate, let's go. >> [inaudible] >> bright. right. >> [inaudible] >> the point, of course, is i have never said in my mind who is ultimately responsible. guess who it is? you. not the promoter. at the end of the day, stuff goes downhill. it is on you to m

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.

like to do is make the repairs. there are holes in the deck, as mr. dufty can tell you. there is a ton of personal property all over the decks. when the decks get wet, they have no way to drive because they are completely covered with items of personal property, and all i want to do is fix it. commissioner goh: i have a question. can you talk about a month rent facilities on the first floor unit and whether the denkinger or whenever they are sitting on is part of the nov? -- whether the deck or whenever they are sitting on is part of that? >> we are going to repair in the end, rather than the part of it covered the garbage and try to hide something from him. i have no idea. commissioner goh: not part of the now. no -- v. -- not part of the nov. >> i do not know. the inspector did not approve the workmanship. commissioner goh: thank you. commissioner fung: you of other properties here, br mr.itton? -- here, mr. britton? >> that is not to be discussed here. >> anything else, mr.duffy -- anything else for mr. duffy? ar

i do know most of them. i have been in many of these hotels, and most of them are really quite good. there are tenant problems sometimes, but then there are other ones that let the issue go on and on with excuses. a heavier penalty. thank you. >> any additional public comment on this item? >> commissioner walker. >> as a closing comment, i appreciate this. i really hope you can take advantage of the fact that we have these organizations and programs around code enforcement out reach, and may be connected in that with that meeting through our housing division to make this more effective and to see how we can help you more on these kinds of issues, especially staffing issues that will compound. i think it has been the intention to help, and we are ready have something in place with the court enforcement are reach where we can use them -- code enforcement our reach where we can use them instead of our reach. thank you for coming in participating. we look forward to working with you. >> i have my own comments to

let's do it. the republicans then would have a choice, rachel, do it and get the country moving again or explain why not. and i think jobs, explaining why for a jobs bill is going to be hard than debt limit and deficit reduction. >> i'll tell you, the more people i talk to about what's economically feasible right now, the more people are zeroing in on getting granular, get specific, talk about specific programs here. >> think about that, 60,000 high school students, the biggest unemployed demographic we have in the country, doing good things for the country. >> ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor, msnbc contributor, thanks for joining us tonight, sir, appreciate it. >> fan of aliens. >> fan of aliens, see, he's on their side. prepare for the mail, sir, it's going to be overwhelming, trust me. all right, thank you. >>> the billionaire coke brothers have grown famous in the past couple of -- resegregation of public schools or the deintegration of public schools. ed schultz as the details after

i was going to try to do two on either side of this room. do your best. there will be someone in the group to redo what we can. this is great. thank you for coming. i really appreciate it. [applause] arewebcastinwe are webcasting . supercool, i think. to do that well, we need to be amplified a bit. i know that we lost some folks. nick, did you take notes? what i wanted to do was have you come up here. we were all in different groups and hopefully we have things to learn from each group. quickly, because i know it is getting late, vaj, do you have your notes? did we wind up with four or three? this seemed like a great session. we do have another microphone, if there are questions that come up. but i think that these will be closing comments. >> you can correct me, if you heard something different, but i heard points one, too, and three were a more pro-active police presence. proactive policing, instead of just responses to emergencies and deterrence. in general, there seemed to be a sentiment of a bid of nickel and dime business. whether through fees or re

and how do they do that? they do that by bringing community members together, different segments of the community together to identify local conditions that are important in their communities to address and then developing strategies where all of the different segments of the community work together to alleviate those problems. it's what americans do. you know, ivette, when there is a problem you get everybody together and you work together to solve it. and there are ways that you can do it effectively. and what we try to do at the institute is help communities actually do those things effectively. fran, do you have an example of a really good model of, you know, a prevention-prepared community? actually, yes, and jane and i work hand-in-hand on this. in between the federal government and our community coalitions, working through what we call the strategic prevention framework model. and basically what that means is that we teach communities, as jane has already mentioned, to do five different steps. and goin

do you agree, john? i do, i do, absolutely. i think this issue of stigma which is directly obviously connected to the terms that we use, is, is very important. i was just thinking about the, the world health movement, this is a not a us phenomenon either, it's, it's cross-national. the world health organization did a study in, in the late '90s across 14 different countries, looking at 18 of the most stigmatized conditions, including drug and alcohol addiction. so they had things like being homeless, being a criminal, being hiv- positive, all these very heavily stigmatized conditions. and what they found, cross-nationally, drug addiction was number one, alcohol addiction was number four, so two of the top four were the most stigmatized conditions cross-nationally. and stigma, and, and that surprised me. i mean obviously we all know that these conditions are very stigmatized, just how stigmatized, i didn't realize, that they, they would come top of that list. so that was very surprising to me. so what we're dealing with is possib

, 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

doing that is something we have to do. public safety transcends what happens to individual neighborhoods on the ground. you ought to focus on muni. people have to feel safe on our buses. you have to have strategies around that. it is a complicated issue. it is something we have to focus on. if public safety does not work, nothing else works. >> let's talk about transportation and muni. is there enough new need service? supervisor campos: one of the things we did last year, and i was very proud to push for that, was to restore some of the service that -- service cuts that were made. new emitted & service cut across the board -- muni made a 10% service cut across the board, which was very significant. here we are. we are paying more and we are getting less. so we worked with the county transportation authority to help restore at least half of those spots, so about 6% was restored. that is not enough. we need to do more. we need to do more to ensure the system is as reliable as possible. i do think we have to focus on best pr

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

do that?t think you necessarily have to be married to have children. >> would you like to be? is marriage something you'd like? >> marriage is a controversial thing, clearly. i find that in a lot of ways it doesn't work and in some ways it does. i'm inspired by certain marriages, uninspired by others. >> whose marriages inspired you? >> my friend shawn tay actually one of my best friend and his marriage is one of the best i've ever seen and it's actually the gentleman that hat belongs to. >> really. >> yeah. >> why do you think it works so well? >> just being close with him and the whole thing and actually his daughter is my god daughter and i've seen just the right type of marriage in the two of them. it is inspiring and sets the bar high. listen, there is no doubt in my mind at some point i'll think about it but things are going well and i'm a happy man at this point. in my relationship by the way. i don't think that ever reflects, marriage never reflects your real happiness with the person

, or want to understand why we do what we do. just trying to promote conversations. i think it has been a big missing piece of this violence reduction in san francisco, the interaction with all the other city agencies in the schools, when we know that every single student lives in san francisco. if you want to know one of the big things that will come in the next six months, that will be one of them. i look forward to seeing what else you bring to the training -- commissioner chan: i look forward to seeing what else to bring to the training, and put on your already have the plate. i want to ask about homicide. it looks like there have been 30 homicides to date and last year there were three homicides. is that 30 homicides total, or year to date? i am just trying to see from january until now. there has been 30 homicides. last year, were there 30 homicides total in all of last year? this is all year to date? just checking on that. >> it would be nice if there were only 30 this year, though. that would make me happy. >> that would

who do you have there that's doing that? do you have a law enforcement guy on staff? what is your current history, what is your recent or past history in law enforcement so that you know exactly what i want. >> i agree with you. i think the industry could take a lesson learned from all your rotor-wing manufacturers that usually have ex-law enforcement, somebody who's involved in law enforcement aviation, hire them to be their law enforcement specialist and sell the aircraft. and i think this industry's going to have to continue to do the same thing. >> and i wish -- [inaudible] auvsi, take this message to the manufacturers and the constituency. if they want to be part of public safety and law enforcement, they need to bring those guys in to their company fold right now in order to connect properly with the doj and these gentlemen up here. [inaudible] >> you know, good, but i think it's more important that they listen. [laughter] you know, i've talked to, you know, i've spent be three days out there, and they're telling me, you know, i'm not -- i'm lumping everybody in

what do we do as first responders. when we come up do we use our walkie talkies or radio? no. you go to a hard wire phone, call it in and get the information back because it may detonate that using the radio frequency. remember we talked about suspected terrorism is a stop sign for you as nerts. you do not want to get hurt. any questions on the terrorism? bnice is not nice. incident takes place, it takes place here on the left side, this is called the hot zone. you obviously want to be in the cold zone. first responders, we're going to come up to our staging area in the warm area and start moving to get to the incident. you want to be in what zone? the cold zone. uphill, upwind. you believe you have chemicals on your skin or clothing, obviously time is critical. remove everything from your body, wash your hands, flush your body with water. your safety is no. 1. direct contact with treating victims can expose you to contaminants. these people coming out of the bart might have been exposed to something, do you want to go and start touching them? do you want to let them leave? yo

not being in with the city family when the planning was going on for who was born to do what do to budget problems -- for who was going to do what, has made a very difficult. we are getting up to speed, and we will make that presentation to you. >> let's say we had an earthquake next week. what is the chain of command? the mayor's office? >> the eoc on turk street. that is were everything funnels from. all of the information is brought in their, and it is brought into the different departments. >> can we have a chart that basically shows a flow chart of responsibilities? >> they exist. yes. >> thank you. >> item 6e, update on cue- mattock and status of activation. -- q-mattic. >> one of the things we need to do is hire the cashier's that commissioner murphy was disgusting. -- q-matic. we have six starting on monday. in order to be able to roll out the program and be able to provide the information you have been discussing that you need about the system and the public, what we needed to do was to get real life feedback from our customers. last week i sent out to the public advisory committ

please do not do this to drivers like me. directors, since you're not going to reduce the feet, please go ahead with the meter increase. directors, you are giving the meter increase in the hands and taking it away from the other hand. i will tell you why. you are adding more cabs and we are already paying high fees and gas prices. -- [unintelligible] you are letting the cab drivers with no choice. i urge you to increase the flag drop. thank you. >> thank you. thank you to all who participated in the various town hall meetings and thank you for the summer. i thought that was useful to hear the wide variety of comments. all those who participated were members of our advisory committee. i want to thank you here. there were useful and thoughtful comments and suggestions. one that is worth looking at is some form of indexing the fares going forward so we do not have to wait 10 years to do this. that is way too long to come in my opinion. i would like to ask ms. friedlander to address the issue that was raised in the environmental

what can i do?can do to use the talents i have to some meaningful purpose and some good. >> a candid mark sanford last week at a private retreat where he lives now. mark, you've been kicked all over the place, publicly humiliated, trashed by the media, trashed by almost everybody. you know, you're public enemy number one in politics for that period. you have been followed by others. the cycle moves on. others fall down. they get kicked too. what was the experience like for you on a human level? because you're not the caricature that we all read about. you're the guy -- in fact, you were honest enough to say in an interview that you used to pick up papers and say you idiot, other people who had done what you had done. suddenly you're that guy. how does that feel? >> it's humbling. we were just speaking a moment ago, and i said to you very candidly that i've done thousands of interviews back through congress and through the governorship, and i was never one moment afraid. it was we could agree or disa

on thursday, do this or saturday, do that. we are not a band or dj peÑa.

we need to do the kinds of things the united nations tries to do and struggles to do. >> you were talkingout money. i noted in your book that you mentioned the united states paid 1,000 -- 100,000 to $1 million for tour on their road. >> a mile of road. the price has gone up from $11,000. we now spend about a million dollars. >> why some much? >> okay. you bring in that amount of money to a poor country. you distort everything. every afghan that comes. inflation that is spiraling. the economy is growing at something approaching -- some people estimate it may grow by 67% annual growth. this is insane. to put this in context, the entire taxation revenue of the afghan government is less than a billion dollars a year, and we are putting in hundred 25 billion. put another way, we are spending every year in afghanistan just on training the afghan national army and police, 12 and a half billion dollars, just on training. the entire revenue of the afghan annual revenue would not cover one month of training courses for the afghan. you start doing that and end up with very odd results. thank you ver

we do not give big oil money. but we could eliminate some of the deductions like all the taxpayers get some. some are automatically taken even if you do not itemize. host: let's hear from an independent in new york. caller: how are you doing? guest: as far as i can tell, ok. caller: one of the most disturbing things about the republican party right now is the obsession with cutting taxes. i would like to encourage the audience today listening to the "wall street journal" article called "bushel and jobs -- the worst track record on record. january 2009, you can google it. during his eight years, when they had those two enormous task cuts, the total jobs created were 3 million jobs. that is for eight years under the bush administration. bill clinton, 23 million jobs. george herbert walker converse, four years, 2.5 million jobs. ronald reagan, 16 million jobs. and i remind you that ronald reagan did raise taxes during his administration. guest: ronald reagan did not raise taxes. in fact, they're cut over 30%. what th

we have to do it through at job creation. have to do it the right way. everyone has had combined efforts. even the puc, with their money, they know keeping track out of the water drainage system, that will all flow in when it is raining, they will be a better performing utilities commission on this. so, they put their money in. everybody has done is the right way. mostly, i am proud of all of the residents here giving up hope that they can have these jobs that are modern jobs. with that come my congratulations to everybody. congratulations to all the department's. -- with that, my congratulations to everybody. all the 175 blocks to bring all level of planning, and a level of civic pride. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. maher. he kind of breeze over it, but i do want to note -- when he took office, he was facing a more than $300 million deficit he had to close. building the budget, he was focused on cutting in a way that was responsible. but it was mostly a cutting exercise. when we went to him and said, we actually need to grow, sir, it

how do they -- how do they operate?vernment -- >> give them government money. >> i think the solution is probably to do a better job. probably to raise taxes, to cut spending, to do special incentive for business people. >> you think they're raising taxes not on the small business people. >> get the revenue from the h h higher earners in my view. people have to pay for this. >> it's always going to be the middle class that has to really pay. you can't really get the money from the rich because -- >> i agree. >> you have to tax them 100%. >> i come from a quaint old fashioned view, look after the poorest people in the community first. they're the biggest problem in america right now. i don't worry so much about whether the middle class can afford two holidays or one. i worry about people -- i saw this week. 70% increase in families living off stamps in the last five years i think it was. shocking statistics. >> horrible. >> they're the people i care about. >> yes. and i assume you're helping them. >> i will, i'm talking

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do? >> i'm interested in international correspondent work. >> are we now in a better position for someone like you to find a job down the road are are we in a worse position than when i was your age? >> in my opinion, we are in a better place. the opportunities people have to travel, we have heard so many stories. hoda, we heard her speak. she is a journalist. she did a lot of work. i learned a lot from her. when jews first a journalist, she got turned down 27 times -- when she was first a journalist, she got turned down 27 times. that is a perfect example of how we have opportunities that we can go and find. there are some different news places and websites. >> thank you. let me read some more. this is the journalists crude from 1906, walter williams. >> no. when should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman. bribery by one's own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the talk about of another. what do you think about this? >> i am from florida. >> what do

my we do not have enough jobs paying enough to do the things that they want to do. go on vacation and drive anywhere, it cost you $400 to fill up a car. everything is too expensive and people are not making enough money to live. host: two headlines for you on a foreign affairs. that is in the world section of the of the " washington post." mr. cameron is to regain control. joe is a democrat. what you think about that's move yesterday? caller: i do not think it will help. i think they the trade agreements are the issue. here in west virginia, we are one of the rich states in the united states. let's get where we are at in every ranking system in the united states? we have oil, coal, gas, timber, limestone, rivers, railroads -- and we are at the bottom of every list. these companies come in every -- extract our resources, and 50% of the coal exported from the united states goes to china. " we're left with the pollution, the damage, and the destruction left with that for their places and west virginia that we will not be able to survive within 20 years because there is

which we do need to do.na and elsewhere, we are rapidly decaying in terms of infrastructure. but i would like to see a grand coalition that everyone who wants infrastructure and energy comes together to pass a bill which uses the american energy to generate the royalties they pay for american infrastructure at no increased taxes. it would create two jobs, a job and infrastructure development and a job in energy development. >> i am with the heritage foundation. assuming that congress does not waive what the committee comes up with, how likely do you think defense cuts will be? are you concerned about what that means for america? d about defense. we have now undercapitalized and a time when the chinese are developing. we could easily phase catastrophic results over the next 10 years. we are overly focused on the ability to fight insurgencies. we lacked the drive and energy and the strategic thinking -- i talked to a general, the formal head of the central command, -- the former head of this such a man -- cent

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what it needs to do. today when i vote in favor of this agreement, i will be voting for us to be cutting spending where we need to, not as much as i would have liked but a lot more than we've ever seen before. but most importantly voting for the assurance that never again will a debt ceiling go up without a debate for commensurate cuts in spending. that's important. i will be voting for this because we'll have a balanced budget amendment on the floor of the united states senate and on the floor of the united states house that we have long needed to do since the last one failed 16 years ago. and we finally have a sequestration mechanism or an stpoerbgsment phebg -- enforcement mechanism to force the select committee to do what it is charged to do in this particular legislation. my frustration that i expressed on saturday is gone. my pride in the senate is restored and i look forward to casting my vote in favor of this agreement at 12:00 today. and i yield back. a senator: mr. president? the presiding offic