. >> board of supervisors and everyone, my name is emmett powell.n francisco since 1972, right up the street on hayes and octavia. i've had the privilege of having great dignitaries from flute the country, throughout the city, throughout the state and through the world traveling. i've had the mayor -- in my place. not only that he invited me to stay here when the -- was here -- all over the world. but let me say this, i know mirkarimi. i do. and i've seen him talking to -- it might be inebriated, they might be high, might be low, whatever. but he never showed disrespect. when iiy3s opened my new restaut on eddy and fillmore, mayor newsom, mayor brown, many other dignitaries was there. mirkarimi was there every week, seeing what i needed done, seeing how things wereí/ and when i went through the problems that i had there, he didn't stay;ñn away. he was right there. so we have auÁsystem here. if we don't like what any of you remember, he who casts thecaít stone without -- cast the first stone. we all have done wrong. any -- but i'm saying that's a g

past couple of years coincidently read about the time it presidential race has have been emmett romney and powell were wearing where the nominees they unified and get demagoguing bishop of the problem is they don't have an alternative. when you s. president obama and you ask harry reid how do you save medicare that i have an answer and in fact president obama took $718 billion out of medicare to fund obamacare which is going backwards. >> moderator: let's ask mr. sadler about this. what changes would you make a medicare to cut costs because clearly we need to save some money. sadler: thank you for asking that we don't have the same program. we have to make hard decisions to keep them and we can keep them for all of us. this doesn't promise we made. there was a promise we made that we wouldn't be readable to retire in our sig seniors would live with dignity and have hospitalization coverage. social security is a pretty easy fix. it really is. there are three options. when you can raise the cap currently that we use to apply texas to. $106,000 worth of income you pay social security taxes on that a